http://blogs.freebsdish.org/andenore Just another FreeBSD Committers Blogs weblog Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:34:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hi, it's nearing the end of GSoC 2008 and I've updated my wiki ( http://wiki.freebsd.org/AndersNore/pkg_improved ) about the pkg_improved project and there are testing instructions for those brave enough. Please test and please report bugs. There are several new features to the pkg-tools and there are some speed improvements made. ... http://blogs.freebsdish.org/andenore/2008/08/16/nearing-end-call-for-testers/ Now the new date feature is doing something useful, I've added an option (-M) to pkg_info which compares installtimes of packages similar to the comparison of versions. So now you can do "pkg_info -M '*>2008 07 18' " and it will display all pacakges installed after the date YYYY MM ... http://blogs.freebsdish.org/andenore/2008/08/03/new-pkg_info-m-installtime-comparison/ Hello, it's been a while since I've updated my blog and it was about time. I've come back from my vacation this week and I have added two new features to pkg_improved which I think are nice features to have. The first feature is that pkg_add registers the installation time (seconds-since-epoch) ... http://blogs.freebsdish.org/andenore/2008/07/21/new-features/ Today I'm going on a vacation to Greece for one week. I'll be back next Thursday (10th). I've polished my project pkg_improved so I think that people could test it out to see if it works. There's not a whole lot of change, just some speed gains here and there, ... http://blogs.freebsdish.org/andenore/2008/07/02/vacation/ This has been somewhat of a amputated week, last weekend I was away for a bicycle race and this weekend I'm going to a wedding, so it hasn't been a lot of time for programming. Anyways I've added human-readable output for pkg_info's -s option (the old is also available with ... http://blogs.freebsdish.org/andenore/2008/06/26/this-weeks-updates/ Changes These are the main things I've done so far some abstract and some more specific, if you want to check out the code you can get it from the perforce depot: //depot/projects/soc2008/andenore_pkginstall/ pkg_convert: Added a convert program (pkg_convert) that indexes information to PKG_DBCACHE_FILE (defaults to $PKG_DBDIR/pkgcache.db) pkg_info: Improved performance for -W option using ... http://blogs.freebsdish.org/andenore/2008/06/19/progress/ Now I'm finally done with my exams for the semester and travelled home where I will spend the summer. This week I started to work on my project which is adding .db support to pkg_install. I have written some database helper functions and a simple converter program that indexes portnames in ... http://blogs.freebsdish.org/andenore/2008/06/08/getting-started/