I'm polishing the last parts for "simplifying" @option always-update.
Here's what you need to know: - current pkg_create now records a sha256 hash of the plist at the end of @option always-update. This can only be parsed by current tools, obviously. - register-plist has been updated to forget this hash. If you don't you'll get errors out of it obviously - I'm in the process of updating quirks to take advantage of this: @option always-update becomes "business as usual". For now, the intermediate version will error out with an helpful message about rebuilding always-update package(s) with current pkg tools. For now (at least for a few releases), the base tools will cope with "old" packing-lists not having a hash after always-update (the added complexity is minimal compared to all the rest), but when the new snapshots are out, pkg_add should be able to cache everything