Re: pkg is suddenly case sensitive?

On Thu 04 Dec 01:23, Dan Mahoney (ports) wrote:
> All,
> 
> We've been using puppet on many of our systems to manage installed ports, and we've always defaulted to telling pkg to install the lowercase name of a package.
> 
> Recenty, we're noticing that pkg fails to install p5-ipc-run3, and that a pkg search won't find it anymore because it's in the tree as p5-IPC-Run3.
> 
> Did pkg recently change to be case-sensitive?
> 

The fact that pkg was case sensitive was a bug, which has been harmless for a
while, until people started playing with packages named "FreeBSD-" vs packages
named "freebsd-" with the same suffix.

Note I just figured a bug which makes the pkg.conf setting which determines this
behaviour bugging and not working consistently everywhere (well actually working
in most cases). I am fixing this part right now.

Best regards,
Bapt