Hi,
hub seems to be acting up, so I'm sending this a second time... Sorry for
any duplicates.
At http://people.FreeBSD.org/~reg/, I have placed the latest of my
patches to the pkg_install tools. This is an almost complete rewrite of
the tools, based around a 'Package Manager', which supplies an API which
could be used by third party applications (like a KDE or GTK+
application.)
There is more status on the page, but the current patch set implements:
- which(1) like functionality, to tell you which package installed a
particular file.
- BUILD_DEPEND and LIB_DEPEND style dependency checking, which relies
on installed files and libraries, not the package names.
- Use pkg_add from bsd.port.mk, so that building a port no longer
requires any of the dependencies to be checked out.
- Backup packages created from the installed packages. Future
enhancements include the ability to run a backup script to save
local configuration/data files into the backup package.
- Inplace upgrading of installed packages, by deleting the old package,
except it's shared libraries, and merging these into the new
package's plist. This will obsolete the recent pkg_upgrade commit.
The code is pretty rough at the moment. I'm still testing it, so expect
a new release soon, with a bunch of bug fixes. I would really like
people to comment on the added functionality, the design and pkg_mgr API
and also do some testing for me.
There is also a patch for bsd.port.mk, which uses these changes.
Regards,
-Jeremy
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