[Pkgutil-users] Pkgutil 1.7 beta 1 available for testing

[Peter B. <bon...@op...>]

I have put together a package for the upcoming version 1.7 of pkgutil
and would like some help with testing.

http://mirror.opencsw.org/testing/pkgutil-1.7b1,REV=2009.09.04-SunOS5.8-i386-CSW.pkg.gz
http://mirror.opencsw.org/testing/pkgutil-1.7b1,REV=2009.09.04-SunOS5.8-sparc-CSW.pkg.gz

Below is the list of changes. It's great if you test the new stuff but
it's even more important that the older stuff (especially
install/upgrade) didn't break. Report both successes and failures, I
would like to release 1.7 within a week or so.

* v1.7. Released 2009-09-XX
  - Add protection against concurrent pkgutil processes (#3831)
  - New option -N (nodeps) to skip dependencies, you get only what you
    specified on the command line
  - New option --transform to download and transform (unpack) packages
    (Sebastian Kayser)
  - New option -L (listfile) to list files in packages. Also works on package
    files, you can even mix them on the command line
  - New option -F (findfile) to see which package a file belongs to
  - New option --describe to describe available packages
  - New feature: package hooks (Ben Walton)
  - Loop protection (against circular dependencies in the catalog)
  - Optional new presentation of the needed packages during install/upgrade,
    one package per line to enhance readability. Package list is now sorted as
    well. Set pkgliststyle to 1 in pkgutil.conf
  - Cyclic dependency detection added to chkcat
  - Support new catalog format with added field for incompatible packages.
    Use -f8 in bldcat and chkcat to use the old format


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/peter