What's Meta v1?

Pierre Abbat phma at leaf.dragonflybsd.org
Sun Feb 13 14:25:35 PST 2022


On Sunday, February 13, 2022 2:24:59 PM EST Dan Cross wrote:
> It is the version listed in the file `/var/db/pkg/Avalon.meta`. Oh my
> dragonfly dev machine (which I basically never have time to poke at :-(
> ...) the contents are:
> 
> {"version":2,"packing_format":"txz","manifests":"packagesite.yaml","filesite
> ":"filesite.yaml","manifests_archive":"packagesite","filesite_archive":"file
> site"}
> 
> On the other hand, my Ham radio DragonFly machine, which is running
> 6.2-RELEASE, has this:
> 
> {"version":1,"packing_format":"txz","digest_format":"sha256_base32","digests
> ":"digests","digests_archive":"digests","manifests":"packagesite.yaml","file
> site":"filesite.yaml","manifests_archive":"packagesite","filesite_archive":"
> filesite"}
> 
> I'm not quite sure what creates or updates that file, nor what the
> implication of simply updating the "version": in the latter file from 1 to
> 2 would be.

My Avalon.meta file says version 1. What should I do?

Pierre
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