A depends on dependency B then dependency A will be in all cases listed
before B, so ``pkg_add -r'' will fetch/install packages in the correct order.
Previously dependencies were sorted just by its names, which is why
``pkg_add -r'' never actually worked properly.
To be usefull, hovewer, this fix requires that all packages have been
rebuilt, so it will take some time until users would be able to feel
posititive improvements. For the same reasons it is desirable to propagate
these changes to the 4-stable package building cluster *before* 4.3 ports
freeze, so packages for 4.3-RELEASE would be properly prepared.
Prompted by: kris
Insanely appreciated by: obrien
Silently approved by: jkh, -ports
- fix cosmetics to shut-up compiler in -pedantic mode (axe several unused vars
and provide default clause in several switch() statements).
No response from: -ports
name is less than 5 and doesn't contain recognizeable suffix (one of .tar or
.tgz), while gzip's it if lengh of the name greater than 4. For example
`pkg_create [options] pkg1' will create pkg1.tar, while
`pkg_create [options] pkg11' will create pkg11.tgz;
- use TRUE/FALSE as a values for boolean variables instead of explicit 1/0 and
erroneous YES in one case.
MFC candidate.
a path of the port from which package has been created within FreeBSD Ports
Collection and will be used to improve pkg_version(1) and similar tools.
Reviewed by: ports@FreeBSD.org, jkh
Approved by: jkh
concerning where they're taking place.
Switch from [r]index() to str[r]chr() functions, which are more ISO
compliant.
Prompted by: Edward Welbourne <eddy@vortigen.demon.co.uk>
o Fix bogus suffix handling.
o Tell user when an FTP url is being xferred rather than being silent.
This sort of violates "the unix way" but it stops people from whacking
^C when they think it's hung, too. Sometimes visual indication of
success is important. Doesn't spit out anything if not on a TTY.
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
later at pkg_delete time to verify that you're deleting what you added.
This, of course, does NOT cover the case where a file you still need
hasn't changed! That's a tougher problem to solve, and this provides
only the minimal amount of safety belt. MD5 checksums are stored in comment
fields, so packages produced with these tools are backwards compatible with
the older ones.
Formerly, there were limits on both the number of files (hard-coded into
the program) and the number of characters (because of the ARG_MAX limit
in exec(2)). In this new version, the filenames are passed to tar through
a pipe, using tar's "-T" option, rather than on the command line.
1. Make paths work correctly.
2. Make pkg_add generally more robust in the face of failure.
3. Make the depend messages come out on stderr or stdout, but not both
interspersed! :-)
out by Bruce.
2. Add a "feature" to pkg_create (OK, OK, it's a miserable hack!) to get
it to dump its internal packing list out so that the `fake-pkg' rule in
bsd.port.mk can generate a more meaningful packing list.
1. pkg_create now has a -P argument for specifying dependencies on the
command line.
2. pkg_add will honor dependencies and chain-load them automatically if
it finds the required package(s) in the same directory as the package
that is being loaded. For best results, install packages from a directory
containing all the packages you'll possibly need
(like /usr/ports/packages/all).
2 remaining flaws:
1. pkg_add looks in one place (where you were when you loaded the primary
pkg) for depended packages. If you can come up with a search path scheme
that's not a total hack - be my guest!
2. Recursive dependency expansion can result in the name of a dep being
listed more than once. This doesn't bother pkg_add since it checks
for package existance with pkg_info and will skip already-loaded packages.
I don't know how/if pkg_delete handles this yet, however. I need to look
into it.
