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jlaffaye committed Jan 27, 2011
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pkgng is a binary package manager written from scratch for FreeBSD.

pkgng is built on top of a new libpkg, which allow to deal to the database of
pkgng is built on top of a new libpkg, which allow to deal with the database of
installed packages, to deal with remote repositories, manage packages: creation,
installation gathering informations, registrating new ports.
installation gathering informations, registering new ports.

features supported are or will be :
- smooth integration with bsd.port.mk (see ports/bsd.port.mk.patch) which allow
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+PREUPGRADE, +POSTUPGRADE as well as the old fashion scripts : +INSTALL
+DEINSTALL +UPGRADE
- new +MANIFEST (plist-like format) which new metadatas : options, arch, os
version, etc. files aren't listed there anymore (no need to have two times the
same information).
version, etc.
- pkgng supports supports checking arch of the package which means that users
won't be able to install sparc64 binary package into amd64 machines.
- a special architecture "noarch" allows to specify when a package can be used
- a special architecture "all" allows to specify when a package can be used
on every architecture.
- @dirrm and @dirrmtry are now deprecated, pkgng can discover itself which
directory to remove.
directory has to be removed.
- new repository (apt-like feature)
- real support for reverse dependency (no ugly +REQUIRED_BY)
- test unit (libcheck) on libpkg.
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