Re: Get ${OSREL} at install time
- In reply to: Eugene Grosbein : "Re: Get ${OSREL} at install time"
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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2023 10:06:49 UTC
* Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> [20230418 17:03]: > 18.04.2023 16:51, Felix Palmen wrote: > > > With lua scripts, you can't even use freebsd-version because execution > > is very restricted for them in pkg. And for some features (like e.g. > > dynamically creating a pkg-message output), you need lua... > > You don't need lua to create pkg-message dynamically or do many other things. > It was possible long before invention of lua itself :-) Maybe some context got lost here. You *do* need lua to dynamically generate "pkg-message" output at install time. The pkg lua API for that is pkg.print_msg(). It isn't available from shell scripts. -- Felix Palmen <zirias@FreeBSD.org> {private} felix@palmen-it.de -- ports committer (mentee) -- {web} http://palmen-it.de {pgp public key} http://palmen-it.de/pub.txt {pgp fingerprint} 6936 13D5 5BBF 4837 B212 3ACC 54AD E006 9879 F231