non-backward compatible changes in the format of packing list and handle
them gracefully;
- fix a longstanding issue with symlinks handling. Instead of recording
checksum for the file symlink points to, record checksum for the value
returned by readlink(2). For backward compatibility increase packing list
format minor version number and provide a fallback to a previous behaviour,
if package in question was created with older version of pkg_* tools;
Submitted by: Alec Wolman <wolman@cs.washington.edu>, sobomax
- don't record MD5 checksum for device nodes, fifo's and other non-regular
files.
Submitted by: nbm
MFC in: 2 weeks
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
pkg_delete(1) as well;
- add a new `-a' option for pkg_delete(1) to delete all installed packages;
- add a new `-i' option for pkg_delete(1) to request simple rm(1)-like
interactive confirmation before attempting to delete each package.
Silently approved by: jkh, -ports
