Quoting Baptiste Daroussin <b...@freebsd.org> (from Fri, 25 Mar 2011
11:11:11 +0100):
pkgng is a binary package manager written from scratch for FreeBSD.
I didn't had a look at it, just some comments about some parts you explained.
features supported are or will be :
- the register command can analyse elf files when registering a new port to
discover forgotten dependencies if necessary. (done in alpha using libelf)
This will probably fail if LD_LIBRARY_PATH is used, or if we are
installing linuxulator ports.
- new +MANIFEST (plist-like format) with new metadatas : options, arch, os
version, etc. (done in the alpha)
- pkgng supports checking arch of the package which means that users
won't be able to install sparc64 binary package into amd64 machines.
(not done yet)
- a special architecture "all" allows to specify when a package can be used
on every architecture. (not done yet)
What if a package is able to install on a subset, e.g. the linuxulator
ports are for amd64 and i386?
In term of technology we decided to use a sqlite3 database, and to
prevent potential trolling, sqlite3 is used in it's amalgamation form
which means it is incorporated in the code sources (as recommanded by
sqlite developpers like a statically linked library) on build we only
activate the features we need in sqlite.
The alpha release come with an experimental tool "pkg2ng" to convert
an existing package database to the new pkgng database format. So one
can test pkgng without rebuild all its packages.
What about DB corruption/loss? Do you keep the
/var/db/pkg/<package>/xxx files even with pkgng and only use the DB as
a way to speed up some work (so the DB corruption just requires to run
pkg2ng), or are you lost of the DB is lost?
Bye,
Alexander.
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