Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 10:59:36 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Travis Poppe <tlp@LiquidX.org> Subject: Re: Our package system: "Fundamentally Flawed" - A Linux User. Message-ID: <20040719095936.GA21175@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040719070953.GA69143@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20040719002221.21b6b9a3@maya.liquidx.org> <20040719070953.GA69143@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 12:09:53AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 12:22:21AM -0600, Travis Poppe wrote:
> For i386 they're updated every week or so, sometimes more frequently.
>=20
> > Are these new
> > packages that are being rebuilt automatically defaulted to by pkg_add -=
r?=20
>=20
> If you're using -STABLE or -CURRENT, yes. -RELEASE gets package sets
> produced at the time of release, which means they are unchanging.
However packages for 4.10-STABLE should work on a 4.10-RELEASE box.
It seems odd to me that there's no way of overriding the logic in
'pkg_add -r' that chooses the subdirectory of the FTP sites to search
for packages. Before I go and try and chip some of the rust off my C
programming skills, how does this sound:
Add another environment variable 'PACKAGECOLLECTION' that pkg_add(1)
refers to. This should be set to the name of one of the
subdirectories under
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/
(Or whatever architecture is appropriate). Values might be:
packages-4-stable
packages-5.2.1-release
packages-current
In fact, wotthehell: takes more time to describe than to do. Here's
the patch to usr.sbin/pkg_install/add/main.c:
--- main.c.orig Mon Jul 19 10:31:16 2004
+++ main.c Mon Jul 19 10:46:17 2004
@@ -256,13 +256,20 @@
if (strlcat(sitepath, u.machine, sizeof(sitepath)) >=3D sizeof(sitepat=
h))
return NULL;
=20
- reldate =3D getosreldate();
- for(i =3D 0; releases[i].directory !=3D NULL; i++) {
- if (reldate >=3D releases[i].lowver && reldate <=3D releases[i].hiver) {
- if (strlcat(sitepath, releases[i].directory, sizeof(sitepath))
- >=3D sizeof(sitepath))
- return NULL;
- break;
+ if (getenv("PACKAGECOLLECTION")) {
+ if (strlcat(sitepath, "/", sizeof(sitepath)) >=3D sizeof(sitepath) ||
+ strlcat(sitepath, getenv("PACKAGECOLLECTION"), sizeof(sitepath))
+ >=3D sizeof(sitepath))
+ return NULL;
+ } else {
+ reldate =3D getosreldate();
+ for(i =3D 0; releases[i].directory !=3D NULL; i++) {
+ if (reldate >=3D releases[i].lowver && reldate <=3D releases[i].hiver=
) {
+ if (strlcat(sitepath, releases[i].directory, sizeof(sitepath))
+ >=3D sizeof(sitepath))
+ return NULL;
+ break;
+ }
}
}
=20
On this 4.10-STABLE system that gives this effect:
% env PACKAGECOLLECTION=3Dpackages-4.10-release pkg_add -n -v -r cvsup-=
without-gui
looking up ftp.freebsd.org
connecting to ftp.freebsd.org:21
setting passive mode
opening data connection
initiating transfer
Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.10-rel=
ease/Latest/cvsup-without-gui.tgz...+CONTENTS
+COMMENT
+DESC
+MTREE_DIRS
man/man1/cvpasswd.1.gz
man/man1/cvsup.1.gz
man/man8/cvsupd.8.gz
bin/cvpasswd
bin/cvsup
sbin/cvsupd
share/cvsup/License
tar command returns 0 status
Done.
Cheers,
Matthew
--=20
Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks
Savill Way
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