Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 17:02:40 -0700 From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: FreeBSD Ports ML <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: pkg: ALTABI - where is this variable documented? Message-ID: <CAN6yY1u%2B_2kcU47r4sjyWC=RTt3TJgVVLnQmvzzjOQhhFVLrBg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <56E92469.1040707@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20160316092937.4e6c9f36@freyja.zeit4.iv.bundesimmobilien.de> <56E92469.1040707@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 2:16 AM, Matthew Seaman < m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > On 2016/03/16 08:29, O. Hartmann wrote: > > Can someone shed some light onto my clouded view? Is there a manpage > where all > > pkg-related variables are gathered an listed? > > All variables should be documented in pkg.conf(5) -- however, ALTABI is > missing from that page, which is a bug. > > ALTABI is a compatibility thing -- way back when the ABI format was > changed, ALTABI was added as a quick compatibility shim, so that people > could access the old style of ABI easily and eg. plug it into repo.conf > files. Ideally it should have been deprecated and removed after a > decent interval, but has never happened. It would be worth documenting > simply to warn people against using it... > > Cheers, > > Matthew > Or, maybe actually remove it from the next pkg release? It looks to me like it's now pretty useless -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683 .
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