1 2022-06-22 Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org>
3 * Version 2.9 released.
5 * Allow passing or changing options to tarlz(1) via configuration file
6 (qirc) or just setting the special variable 'tarlz_compression_options'
7 from a particular recipe.
9 * Adjusted the simple detection of the package directory when trying
10 to remove a package, this avoids a possible collision if it finds
11 the package name as a regular file.
13 * recipes: Added support for zstd(1) extensions.
15 * recipes: Sample recipes have been updated.
17 2022-05-02 Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org>
19 * Version 2.8 released.
21 * Use full remove mode when upgrading a package. The purpose of this
22 change is to clean up the removal of a previous package when the
23 upgrade mode is invoked. Previously the package documentation
24 directory (and other possible files) were left on the filesystem.
28 2021-12-14 Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org>
30 * Version 2.7 released.
32 * Now Qi is more precise with exit status number 4 and 6, by hitting
33 "exit" instead of just returning from the functions.
35 * Small corrections for the description of Qi and also for the manual
36 have been sent by Antonio Diaz Diaz. Thanks!
38 2021-11-01 Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org>
40 * Version 2.6 released.
42 * build: Make a checksum file for the copy of the recipe (the one
43 included in the package, from which the recipe was built).
45 * Do not read the configuration file on create, extract, and order
46 modes. It is not necessary to read the config file in these modes.
50 2021-09-28 Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org>
52 * Version 2.5 released.
54 * Searching for previously installed packages in an upgrade has been
55 simplified, which will speed up and save resources in upgrade mode.
57 * The network downloader has been changed to make use of GNU Wget2.
61 2021-04-12 Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org>
63 * Version 2.4 released.
65 * recipes: Added the variable "QICPPFLAGS" to pass the C/C++
66 preprocessor flags to the environment variable "CPPFLAGS".
68 * recipes: Added the "docs" and "docsdir" variables to be unset
69 after processing a recipe.
71 * recipes: Added support for executing other defined functions
72 besides the main build() function.
74 * recipes: Include build flags only if it is a real architecture
75 when creating a package meta.
77 * Change default values for QICFLAGS, QICXXFLAGS from "-g0 -O2" to
78 just "-O2". Including default value for LDFLAGS from "-s" to
79 just "" (none). This is to provide more generic values in the
80 package manager distribution.
82 * The documentation is in line with the changes made, plus the
83 sample recipes have been updated.
87 2020-12-25 Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org>
89 * Version 2.3 released.
91 * doc: The general documentation of Qi has been divided to allow its
92 inclusion from other .texi files. This does not affect the internal
93 functioning of Qi or the reading of the documentation for the user,
94 but rather it prepares for the incoming Dragora Handbook (Dragora is
95 the project from which Qi is currently developed).
99 2020-11-09 Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org>
101 * Version 2.2 released.
103 * Get the absolute path name to compose the current working directory
104 when build. A bug introduced in qi-2.0.
106 * The readconfig() function has been simplified.
108 2020-09-07 Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org>
110 * Version 2.1 released.
112 * Make the code for searching previous packages in an upgrade work again
113 (bug introduced in previous version).
117 2020-08-22 Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org>
119 * Version 2.0 released.
121 * The user interface has been revised to better differenciate commands
122 and options, for example: `qi install` instead of `qi -i`, `qi remove`
123 instead of `qi -d`, `qi upgrade` instead of `qi -u`, `qi build`
124 instead of `qi -b`, and so on.
126 * The layout of the produced package names has been changed to better
127 differenciate the software name and its version.
129 Before: name-version-architecture-release[@pkgcategory].tlz
130 Now: name_version_architecture-release[@pkgcategory].tlz
132 * The verbosity level has been changed to a minimal but essential result,
133 while it can now be adjusted from the configuration file.
135 * configure: The --arch= option has been added to define the default
136 package architecture.
138 * install: Fix assignation of 'rootdir' when it is empty and it
139 relies on the value of 'targetdir' when runs a post-install script
142 * doc: Fix examples for 'rootdir' since the package directory and
143 the target directory are relative to the specified root directory.
145 * recipes: Add the special variable 'keep_destdir' to complement
146 'keep_srcdir' in order to preserve 'destdir' when using build command.
148 * Be quieter by default in relation to the graft(1) output, if the
149 -v option is given it returns to the previous qi output behavior.
151 * Set the --missing-crc option to tarlz(1) by default to make the
152 package integrity check more reliable.
154 * Use the power of awk(1) to display package descriptions.
156 * Check and report if qi is connected to a terminal when reading from
159 * Qi's messages have been improved to differentiate themselves from
160 the output of other programs.
162 * Added "coreutils", "bash", and "mksh" to the blacklist filter when
165 * Support for the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH specification has been added.
166 See: https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/
168 * Default Qi C flags to be passed to the compiler (QICFLAGS, QICXXFLAGS)
169 has been changed from "-g0 -Os" to "-g0 -O2".
171 * The DESCRIPTION, OPTIONS, and ENVIRONMENT sections for the man page
172 (generated by help2man) have been reorganized.
174 * The main Info manual has been refreshed to reflect all these changes.
176 * The examples in the doc directory have been updated.
178 * The CREDITS file has been updated.
180 * Code clean up and minor (but important) enhancements.
182 2020-04-20 Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org>
184 * Version 1.4 released.
186 * build: Added support for optional "package category". If the
187 variable 'pkgcategory' is declared in a recipe, Qi will produce
188 packages ala "<name>-<version>-<architecture>+release@category".
190 * general: The configuration file is now included instead of being
191 analyzed. This is to have more room to declare things in general.
193 * build: The 'arch' value is used as suffix for produced packages
194 in order to have a well-organized (per-arch) output directory,
196 /var/cache/qi/packages/noarch/
197 /var/cache/qi/packages/i586/
198 /var/cache/qi/packages/x86_64/
201 * The code of blacklisted packages in the updates has been simplified.
203 * doc: The "Variables from the environment" section has been improved.
205 * build: The 'full_pkgname' variable is now added on the meta tag file.
207 * doc: The manual has been updated to conform to this version.
211 2019-09-10 Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org>
213 * Version 1.3 released.
215 * Check the exit status when a recipe is imported or included.
216 This will help to catch possible errors when using shell code,
217 rather than proceeding with the recipe.
221 2019-07-30 Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org>
223 * Version 1.2 released.
225 * The variable 'arch' has been added to the package meta file,
226 additionally, the variables 'program' and 'version' has been
227 replaced with 'pkgname' and 'pkgversion' which take the value
228 of those if they have not been previously established.
232 2019-05-19 Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org>
234 * Version 1.1 released.
236 * Default external tool for uncompressing files based on .tar.lz
237 archives has been changed in the unpack() function from tarlz(1) to
238 lzip(1) in combination with tar(1). This is because some files
239 could have been produced using a header format that differs from the
240 default format used by tarlz(1), e.g. the GNU format (by GNU tar).
242 * Some phrases have been improved in the manual, under the section
243 "5.3 Writing recipes". Thanks to kelsoo.
245 2019-04-15 Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org>
247 * Version 1.0 (stable) released.
249 * The manual (user guide) has been updated.