[Pkgutil-users] pkgutil 1.8 released

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

I have released pkgutil 1.8. It adds quite some features and also
introduces a few changes to make usage more consistent. Note that if
you want to keep bldcat/chkcat after the upgrade of pkgutil you need
to install pkgutilplus.

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

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

Change log:

+ Simple pkgutil logging script included in pkgutilplus using the new
hook mechanism
+ Added pre/postargproc hooks (Ben Walton)
+ 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)

More info on the wiki: http://pkgutil.wikidot.com/

I also recommend reading about the new hook mechanism, you can create
your own simple scripts to log package actions or why not take a
snapshot of /etc before upgrading/installing packages. The
possibilities are endless. :-) http://wiki.opencsw.org/package-hooks

-- 
/peter