Re: pkgng 1.0 release schedule [...concerns...thread...continued...]

2012-08-23 Thread Baptiste Daroussin
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 05:37:54AM -0700, Jeffrey Bouquet wrote: > I view, rightly-or-wrongly, the mandatory usage of pkgng VS > /var/db/pkg/portname-number, as somewhat of a showstopper, at least > without more assurances... I interact daily with /var/db/pkg as > follows... > > using the shells'

Re: pkgng 1.0 release schedule [...concerns...thread...continued...]

2012-08-22 Thread Alexander Yerenkow
There is pkg2ng tool. I think reverse tool could be useful for such scenario: 1. System packages managed by pkgng 2. pkgng2pkg creates /var/db/pkg structure, for read-only tasks 3. Any soft relying on get info from /var/db/pkg still works (partially, because of RO). And then one could learn new CL