os-<plugin> vs. os-<plugin>-devel - what's the difference?

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Hi all,

running 20.7-rc1.

What is the difference between e.g. os-collectd and os-collectd-devel? I am familiar with the -devel ports in FreeBSD but in the OPNsense UI both plugins show the exact same version, size, and description when one clicks on the small (i).

Which one to use? And for most plugins there are both versions, yet for e.g. os-apuled-devel there isn't.

What's the system behind this?

Thanks and kind regards,
Patrick

[mimugmail]

Update to plugins land in -devel. When they are stable the are also release as non-devel.
If you switch your environment to Development you will see both of them.
If you are on stable and want to have a -devel you can see them only via CLI:

pkg search os-

[franco]

-devel is the plugins.git master branch suffix, the "stable" plugins are built from the respective stable/xx.x branch

It allows us to deploy and test changes before we release them as stable versions.


Cheers,
Franco

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Thanks, both  :)