Pkgutil version 1.5 has been released. Even though the change list below is not that long this is easily the biggest release yet, the changes "under the hood" are many and necessary for future versions of pkgutil. All this work has been done by Derek Whayman.
Change list: * Support multiple catalogs with multiple versions of each package and selecting specific versions (Derek Whayman) * Performance enhancements (Derek Whayman) * Fix catalog update issue when mirror catalog is old (Ivo De Decker) * Increased protection against broken/empty local package files (Sebastian Kayser) * Perldoc/man page updates * Bldcat skips dependencies to the same package * Chkcat checks for packages that contain dependencies to themselves There's also a new experimental option in pkgutil.conf for non-CSW packages. Until now pkgutil just blocked all packages not prefixed with CSW but now you can set noncsw=true to allow any packages. Note that due to how, e.g., version comparison is done you may not get the expected result if your packages have a different naming and versioning standard than CSW. Also note that now pkgutil comes with the same pkgutil.conf file copied to both /opt/csw/etc and /etc/opt/csw. This is for those who use /opt/csw as a readonly NFS-mount, then you can have forced options in /opt/csw/etc but still you can tweak your local settings via /etc/opt/csw. Pkgutil will parse the files in that order. I will update the wiki site, http://pkgutil.wikidot.com, with usage exemples that take advantage of the new version handling. Also look at http://pkgutil.sourceforge.net for links to the development stuff regarding pkgutil. Happy installing! -- /peter _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/users
