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[HEADSUP][CFT] pkgng beta1 is out
Baptiste Daroussin
1/ Why pkgng?
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Our current pkg_install tools are showing their age, are hard to maintain,
and they lack features:
- missing metadata
- no upgrade support
- no repository support
- no fine dependency tracking
- no modern binary package management
- and many others
Having old tools makes it hard to improve the ports infrastructure, as a
result lots of hacks have found their way into the different Mk/bsd.*.mk
files to work around pkg_install limitations plus there are lots of hacks
in the packages metadata itself such as @comment which are not comments,
and so forth.
We have people writing tools to improve the situation (portmaster and
portupgrade to name two), but they are limited by and can become quite
complicated to maintain because of the pkg_install limitations.
2/ What it is?
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It is a tool that is designed to replace pkg_install and provide modern
features to advance package management on FreeBSD.
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