What's Meta v1?

Justin Sherrill justin at shiningsilence.com
Sun Feb 13 17:09:12 PST 2022


It's a warning about a future incompatibility.  Nothing is broken, and
there's no action needed from you.

That new file format will be in the next version of DragonFly, and the
warning will go away.

On Sun, Feb 13, 2022 at 5:25 PM Pierre Abbat <phma at leaf.dragonflybsd.org>
wrote:

> 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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> if it weren't so radioactive.
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