On 24/11/2021 18:21, George Mitchell wrote:
I just now noticed (finally?) that my local ports repo is gradually
filling up with "*.pkg" files, and the "*.txz" files are turning into
symbolic links. Everything is still working just fine, but I am
feeling rather embarrassed that it took me so long (since before
July 22, evidently) to catch on. What happened, and where was it
documented? I still don't see anything in /usr/ports/UPDATING.
-- George
<https://www.freshports.org/ports-mgmt/pkg/#history>, this in particular:
<https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=e497a16a286972bfcab908209b11ee6a13d99dc9>
– as far as I know, use of symlinks began much earlier.
The string that's inserted to the name of the file relates to SHA256.
% pwd
/var/cache/pkg
% ls -hl kwinft*
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 28B 21 Nov 17:04 kwinft-5.23.0.pkg ->
kwinft-5.23.0~81e88bb3e8.pkg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4.5M 11 Nov 09:22 kwinft-5.23.0~81e88bb3e8.pkg
% sha256 kwinft-5.23.0~81e88bb3e8.pkg
SHA256 (kwinft-5.23.0~81e88bb3e8.pkg) =
81e88bb3e8174cd15010a0adb7e124b453cad0ccbf170ca66cce0707576d2718
%
