Re: pkg is suddenly case sensitive?

On Thu 04 Dec 11:03, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> 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

Side note: if you want a consistent and predictible behaviour the -C/-i options
are still working the same for all versions of pkg.

Best regards,
Bapt