On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 2:16 AM, Matthew Seaman < [email protected]> 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: [email protected] PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683 . _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
