> On Dec 4, 2025, at 2:50 AM, Baptiste Daroussin <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Thu 04 Dec 11:03, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>> On Thu 04 Dec 01:23, Dan Mahoney (ports) wrote:
>>> All,
>>>
>>> We've been using puppet on many of our systems to manage installed ports,
>>> and we've always defaulted to telling pkg to install the lowercase name of
>>> a package.
>>>
>>> Recenty, we're noticing that pkg fails to install p5-ipc-run3, and that a
>>> pkg search won't find it anymore because it's in the tree as p5-IPC-Run3.
>>>
>>> Did pkg recently change to be case-sensitive?
>>>
>>
>> The fact that pkg was case sensitive was a bug, which has been harmless for a
>> while, until people started playing with packages named "FreeBSD-" vs
>> packages
>> named "freebsd-" with the same suffix.
>>
>> Note I just figured a bug which makes the pkg.conf setting which determines
>> this
>> behaviour bugging and not working consistently everywhere (well actually
>> working
>> in most cases). I am fixing this part right now.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Bapt
>
> Side note: if you want a consistent and predictible behaviour the -C/-i
> options
> are still working the same for all versions of pkg.
That would require rewriting puppet's package provider. It's easier to update
our manifests now that we know this is a thing, and I'm sure there will be
Gotchas, especially with the CamelCase perl ports.
Thanks for the quick answer.
-Dan
