Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2025 06:12:37 -0700 From: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> To: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@FreeBSD.org> Cc: John Kennedy <warlock@phouka.net>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD-pkgbase@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Note: libutil.so bump from main-n279246-0c381b7f0570 Message-ID: <F5959D39-7752-41A8-BB00-ECC60329818E@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <864iu9uk95.fsf@ltc.des.dev> References: <F4F162E8-8EB7-49F1-AA86-F238B1AB53BD@yahoo.com> <86ms81vbuv.fsf@ltc.des.dev> <D264EC7B-955C-44A0-BB8E-3AC2AFA6809D@yahoo.com> <86bjohv5qe.fsf@ltc.des.dev> <BE355C2E-D473-4A05-BEC4-CCA7BADA8CE6@yahoo.com> <864iu9uk95.fsf@ltc.des.dev>
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On Aug 15, 2025, at 00:17, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> writes:
>> Okay.
>>
>> # man pkg-info | grep -i compat
>> compatibility.
>> compatibility.
>>
>> # man pkg-delete | grep -i compat
>> #
>>
>> The 2 pkg commands involved do not seem to document how
>> they are to be used with "compat-libraries" for such
>> things.
>
> Are you really incapable of putting “legacy libraries get moved to the
> compat-libraries package” and “the pkg delete command can be used to
> delete packages” together to form “pkg delete compat-libraries will
> remove all legacy libraries”?
# man -K compat-libraries
/usr/local/share/man/man5/pkg.conf.5.gz: exist yet a new package "compat-libraries" will be created.
In my view the concept of compat-libraries is not
very discoverable as stands --because of the single
existing documentation reference being the one in:
BACKUP_LIBRARIES: boolean
If set to true pkg(8) will backup ancient libraries if they
are removed as the result of an upgrade and keep a copy in
the path define in BACKUP_LIBRARY_PATH. If it does not
exist yet a new package "compat-libraries" will be created.
the version will be bumped each time a new library is backed
up Default: NO.
in "man 5 pkg.conf". Also:
# grep compat-libraries /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf*
#
In my view having some primary commands show some
usage (and possibly have a see-also reference to
the BACKUP_LIBRARIES material) would be useful.
Side note: Ridicule as a reply was an interesting choice
that I not think much of.
>> # grep compat /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf*
>> #
>>
>> So: No sample command alias either.
>
> What would you want an alias for?
I was just looking for another reference to
compat-libraries besides the BACKUP_LIBRARIES
description's reference but did not find one.
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