[Pkgutil-users] Beta 1 of pkgutil 1.8 released

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

I have released beta 1 of pkgutil 1.8. It adds quite some features and
also introduces a few changes to make usage more consistent. You're
welcome to try it and tell me what you think. Also ask if there's
something you want to know about the new features and fixes.

There's packages prepared for you. Note that I'm trying splitting out
utilities into pkgutilplus, right now it's just bldcat and chkcat but
more will be coming. The reason is that it's important that pkgutil
itself does not need any dependencies but the utilities should be able
to benefit from, e.g., a more modern perl version. Also I'm thinking
about extending the functionality of pkgutil itself when certain
dependencies are present (pulled in by pkgutilplus), e.g. parallel
downloads when libcurl is present. Please tell me what you think about
this.

http://mirror.opencsw.org/testing/pkgutil-1.8b1,REV=2009.10.19-SunOS5.8-i386-CSW.pkg.gz
http://mirror.opencsw.org/testing/pkgutil-1.8b1,REV=2009.10.19-SunOS5.8-sparc-CSW.pkg.gz
http://mirror.opencsw.org/testing/pkgutilplus-1.8b1,REV=2009.10.19-SunOS5.8-all-CSW.pkg.gz

For those of you who want to download just the files they are
available from Sourceforge:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pkgutil/files/

Change log:

* Support I-dependencies (remove incompatible packages) when using new
9-field catalog
* Added pre/postfetch hooks (Ben Walton)
* Install local package files, e.g. "pkgutil -i foo.pkg.gz" (Trygve Laugstol)
* Fix transform (extract) feature (#3904@OpenCSW)
* Transform renamed to extract to be more generic (Sebastian Kayser)
* Extract and stream must now be used with download, e.g. "-d —stream"
* Selecting target platform is now possible for —download and
—extract, not just —stream (#3914@OpenCSW) (Sebastian Kayser)
* Catalog update interval user configurable via pkgutil.conf. Set to
-1 for no automatic updates, 0 for every time pkgutil is run and 1+
for the number of days between updates. 14 would emulate current
behavior (Trygve Laugstol)
* Add support for catalog names in —listfile (#3894@OpenCSW) (Sebastian Keyser)
* Split package into core pkgutil and extension pkgutilplus
(bldcat/chkcat, more to come)
* Remove unused declaration causing noise when using -r (#3903@OpenCSW)
* Fix missing options in man/perldoc page
* Add support for non-CSW packages to bldcat (#2865123@SF) (David Everly)
* Switch back to default 8 field catalogs for bldcat and chkcat
* bldcat and chkcat doesn't require CSWperl, exit with helpful message
if Digest::MD5 is missing (#3917@OpenCSW)

Wiki: http://pkgutil.wikidot.com/

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/peter