[OmniOS-discuss] Newer pkg list -v no longer displays build version

[Dan McDonald]

We took a LOT of changes in modernizing.  The new pkg5 repo is github.com/omniti-labs/pkg5.

Dan

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> On Apr 8, 2015, at 2:39 PM, Eric Sproul <eric.sproul at circonus.com> wrote:
> 
> FYI, just something I noticed that I've discovered I have to account
> for as I work on Circonus support for r151014...
> 
> The updated pkg(5) in 014 changes the default format for versions in
> `pkg list -v` output.  Previously, the format was:
> 
> component,build-branch:timestamp
> 
> now it appears to be:
> 
> component-branch:timestamp
> 
> For example, here's one of our packages on 006 vs. 014.  I've omitted
> the timestamps for clarity:
> 
> pkg://circonus/platform/runtime/nodejs@0.10.38,5.11-0.151006
> pkg://circonus/platform/runtime/nodejs@0.10.38-0.151014
> 
> The build version ("5.11") is now omitted.  This is fine, as it
> rarely, if ever changes, and we usually care much more about the other
> two.  This did, however, spoil some regexes I use to determine
> installed versions of dependent packages (for things that pkgdepend(1)
> doesn't cover).  If you do something similar in your own packaging
> builds, watch out for this.
> 
> I haven't dug into the commit history on current pkg(5) to find out
> when/why it changed, but if anyone knows, I'd be interested, just to
> satisfy my curiosity.
> 
> Eric
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