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authormurray <murray@FreeBSD.org>2004-06-30 02:15:31 +0000
committermurray <murray@FreeBSD.org>2004-06-30 02:15:31 +0000
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Attempt to summarize Oliver's recent changes to the pkg tools.
Submitted by: eik@
Diffstat (limited to 'release')
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml15
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml15
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diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
index 2ba35f4..da35d98 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
@@ -973,6 +973,21 @@
analogous to <filename>src/UPDATING</filename> for the base
system.</para>
+ <para>The version number parsing code has been rewritten in the
+ system pkg tools, restoring compatibiliy with 4.x and
+ portupgrade.</para>
+
+ <para>The package tools can now match packages with relational
+ operators and csh-style {...} choices, e.g.:
+
+ <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg_info -I 'docbook>=3.0'</userinput></screen>
+
+ will list (all) docbook DTDs with at least version 3.0.
+ Additional command line options have also been added to aid
+ pattern matching.</para>
+
+ <para>The package tools have improved handling of corrupt package
+ databases.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="releng">
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
index 2ba35f4..da35d98 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
@@ -973,6 +973,21 @@
analogous to <filename>src/UPDATING</filename> for the base
system.</para>
+ <para>The version number parsing code has been rewritten in the
+ system pkg tools, restoring compatibiliy with 4.x and
+ portupgrade.</para>
+
+ <para>The package tools can now match packages with relational
+ operators and csh-style {...} choices, e.g.:
+
+ <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg_info -I 'docbook>=3.0'</userinput></screen>
+
+ will list (all) docbook DTDs with at least version 3.0.
+ Additional command line options have also been added to aid
+ pattern matching.</para>
+
+ <para>The package tools have improved handling of corrupt package
+ databases.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="releng">
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