New stuff in packages

Contributed by mk/reverse on 2004-10-11 from the dept.

There is now an UNMESSAGE file that gets displayed at pkg_delete
time. That should kill a few more DEINSTALL scripts.

All MESSAGE/UNMESSAGE files get concatenated together, and are shown
at the end of pkg_add/pkg_delete with proper decoration, so that it's
easy to find out which package displayed what.

All `special' decoration in existing MESSAGE files should now be
removed. The new display engine will decorate it properly with
+----------- <PKGNAME>
|
| Your message there
|
+----------- <PKGNAME>
borders.

A lot of the existing code is getting shared, so that we can get finer
diagnostics and a lot of extra stuff for free...

Lots of other interesting changes has gone into our package tools lately and kudos to Marc Espie for the hard work.

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Comments

By Anonymous Coward (134.58.253.194) on 2004-10-11 15:54

How backwards-compatible are the new, fast changing package tools?

Can I remove packages installed with the old package tools with the new tools (eg. after an upgrade)? Or is a reinstall the simplest way?
Comments
1. By Dave Steinberg (66.65.101.238) dave@redterror.net on 2004-10-12 02:47 http://www.geekisp.com/
  
  Nope. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-ports&m=109396324702286&w=2
2. By Marc Espie (62.212.102.210) on 2004-10-13 23:08
  
  Yes, the new tools can still remove old packages. It doesn't work the other way round, though, obviously...
By Anonymous Coward (64.122.103.201) on 2004-10-11 20:53

Espie is really a freak doing an excellent job.

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