On 2014-10-28 19:35, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 07:27:10PM -0400, Allan Jude wrote:
>> On 2014-10-28 19:19, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> We are starting the release process of pkg 1.4, we want to have a better
>>> release
>>> process than with every single previous version of pkg. For that we will
>>> need
>>> you help!
>>>
>>> pkg-devel has been updated to the latest version of pkg as of alpha2.
>>>
>>> Changes you can expect in pkg 1.4 are the following:
>>> - Loads of bug fixes
>>> - Stricter checking of the path passed via the plist
>>> - Removal of the bundled libyaml
>>> - new --raw-format to chose the output format for info -R and search -R
>>> - ABI is now follwing MACHINE_ARCH (freebsd:10:x86:64 become
>>> FreeBSD:10:amd64)
>>> the old ABI is available as a fallback in ALTABI
>>> - pkg check now support a quiet mode
>>> - new 3 way merge code ("stolen" from the fossil-scm) to allow automerging
>>> configuration files
>>> - new @config keyword to mark a file as a config file (during
>>> upgrade/reinstallation it will try to merge the configuration with the
>>> one the
>>> user may have modified) an option AUTOMERGE is available to prevent
>>> automerging if automerge fails a .pkgnew file will be created along with
>>> the
>>> untouched user version of the configuration
>>> - The update procedure has been improved and speed up a lot (in particular
>>> for
>>> machine with low resources)
>>> - The unique identifier has been modified to be pkgname meaning now ports
>>> can be
>>> moved in new categories without having to be considered a different
>>> package
>>> - Only libraries starting by lib* are added to the provided libraries
>>> - General speed up of all operations
>>>
>>> We need help in testing, but we also need help in writing regression tests !
>>> The more we have tests the more stable the releases will be.
>>>
>>> The release will also allow to be able to package base!
>>>
>>> regards,
>>> Bapt
>>>
>>
>> Naming the option 'AUTOMERGE' when it stops the automatic merging, seems
>> like a really bad idea. Either make it AUTOMERGE=false or NOAUTHMERGE or
>> something.
>
> The default it automerge: true you have to change it to automerge: false to
> prevent it to work
>
> regards,
> Bapt
> Right, that makes sense, thank you. -- Allan Jude
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