Running there you got any kind of strange errors from tar caused
by treating directories as tar files!
Fix it by adding new isfile(name) (check for reg. files) to simple fexists(name) calls.
pkg_manage silently dumps core, pkg_info claims about them to
stderr, which makes very difficult to find what directory cause it via
tons of pkg_info -a output. I found solution which covers both variants,
now pkg_info claims about missing files to stdout among valid output
with ERROR: prefix. It heals pkg_manage to not dump core and makes
easy to find errors in pkg_info -a output by simple /ERROR 'more' command.
Also allow URL specification for a package. This works for things the
package may depend on, too.
Allow PKG_PATH to be used anywhere a package is being searched for.
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! :-)
2. Fix a long-standing bug in pkg_add where the failure of one package in
a multipackage installation (pkg_add *.tgz) would blow you right out of
the water. Ick.
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.
Index descriptions are limited to MAXINDEXSIZE (60) chars. Any description
beyond that is truncated. Also, only the first line is displayed as well.
This allows pkg_info -a -I to be formated in two columns with one line
per package for easy reading.
Reviewed by: jkh
