1 2022-05-02 Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org>
3 * Version 2.8 released.
5 * Use full remove mode when upgrading a package. The purpose of this
6 change is to clean up the removal of a previous package when the
7 upgrade mode is invoked. Previously the package documentation
8 directory (and other possible files) were left on the filesystem.
12 2021-12-14 Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org>
14 * Version 2.7 released.
16 * Now Qi is more precise with exit status number 4 and 6, by hitting
17 "exit" instead of just returning from the functions.
19 * Small corrections for the description of Qi and also for the manual
20 have been sent by Antonio Diaz Diaz. Thanks!
22 2021-11-01 Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org>
24 * Version 2.6 released.
26 * build: Make a checksum file for the copy of the recipe (the one
27 included in the package, from which the recipe was built).
29 * Do not read the configuration file on create, extract, and order
30 modes. It is not necessary to read the config file in these modes.
34 2021-09-28 Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org>
36 * Version 2.5 released.
38 * Searching for previously installed packages in an upgrade has been
39 simplified, which will speed up and save resources in upgrade mode.
41 * The network downloader has been changed to make use of GNU Wget2.
45 2021-04-12 Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org>
47 * Version 2.4 released.
49 * recipes: Added the variable "QICPPFLAGS" to pass the C/C++
50 preprocessor flags to the environment variable "CPPFLAGS".
52 * recipes: Added the "docs" and "docsdir" variables to be unset
53 after processing a recipe.
55 * recipes: Added support for executing other defined functions
56 besides the main build() function.
58 * recipes: Include build flags only if it is a real architecture
59 when creating a package meta.
61 * Change default values for QICFLAGS, QICXXFLAGS from "-g0 -O2" to
62 just "-O2". Including default value for LDFLAGS from "-s" to
63 just "" (none). This is to provide more generic values in the
64 package manager distribution.
66 * The documentation is in line with the changes made, plus the
67 sample recipes have been updated.
71 2020-12-25 Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org>
73 * Version 2.3 released.
75 * doc: The general documentation of Qi has been divided to allow its
76 inclusion from other .texi files. This does not affect the internal
77 functioning of Qi or the reading of the documentation for the user,
78 but rather it prepares for the incoming Dragora Handbook (Dragora is
79 the project from which Qi is currently developed).
83 2020-11-09 Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org>
85 * Version 2.2 released.
87 * Get the absolute path name to compose the current working directory
88 when build. A bug introduced in qi-2.0.
90 * The readconfig() function has been simplified.
92 2020-09-07 Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org>
94 * Version 2.1 released.
96 * Make the code for searching previous packages in an upgrade work again
97 (bug introduced in previous version).
101 2020-08-22 Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org>
103 * Version 2.0 released.
105 * The user interface has been revised to better differenciate commands
106 and options, for example: `qi install` instead of `qi -i`, `qi remove`
107 instead of `qi -d`, `qi upgrade` instead of `qi -u`, `qi build`
108 instead of `qi -b`, and so on.
110 * The layout of the produced package names has been changed to better
111 differenciate the software name and its version.
113 Before: name-version-architecture-release[@pkgcategory].tlz
114 Now: name_version_architecture-release[@pkgcategory].tlz
116 * The verbosity level has been changed to a minimal but essential result,
117 while it can now be adjusted from the configuration file.
119 * configure: The --arch= option has been added to define the default
120 package architecture.
122 * install: Fix assignation of 'rootdir' when it is empty and it
123 relies on the value of 'targetdir' when runs a post-install script
126 * doc: Fix examples for 'rootdir' since the package directory and
127 the target directory are relative to the specified root directory.
129 * recipes: Add the special variable 'keep_destdir' to complement
130 'keep_srcdir' in order to preserve 'destdir' when using build command.
132 * Be quieter by default in relation to the graft(1) output, if the
133 -v option is given it returns to the previous qi output behavior.
135 * Set the --missing-crc option to tarlz(1) by default to make the
136 package integrity check more reliable.
138 * Use the power of awk(1) to display package descriptions.
140 * Check and report if qi is connected to a terminal when reading from
143 * Qi's messages have been improved to differentiate themselves from
144 the output of other programs.
146 * Added "coreutils", "bash", and "mksh" to the blacklist filter when
149 * Support for the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH specification has been added.
150 See: https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/
152 * Default Qi C flags to be passed to the compiler (QICFLAGS, QICXXFLAGS)
153 has been changed from "-g0 -Os" to "-g0 -O2".
155 * The DESCRIPTION, OPTIONS, and ENVIRONMENT sections for the man page
156 (generated by help2man) have been reorganized.
158 * The main Info manual has been refreshed to reflect all these changes.
160 * The examples in the doc directory have been updated.
162 * The CREDITS file has been updated.
164 * Code clean up and minor (but important) enhancements.
166 2020-04-20 Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org>
168 * Version 1.4 released.
170 * build: Added support for optional "package category". If the
171 variable 'pkgcategory' is declared in a recipe, Qi will produce
172 packages ala "<name>-<version>-<architecture>+release@category".
174 * general: The configuration file is now included instead of being
175 analyzed. This is to have more room to declare things in general.
177 * build: The 'arch' value is used as suffix for produced packages
178 in order to have a well-organized (per-arch) output directory,
180 /var/cache/qi/packages/noarch/
181 /var/cache/qi/packages/i586/
182 /var/cache/qi/packages/x86_64/
185 * The code of blacklisted packages in the updates has been simplified.
187 * doc: The "Variables from the environment" section has been improved.
189 * build: The 'full_pkgname' variable is now added on the meta tag file.
191 * doc: The manual has been updated to conform to this version.
195 2019-09-10 Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org>
197 * Version 1.3 released.
199 * Check the exit status when a recipe is imported or included.
200 This will help to catch possible errors when using shell code,
201 rather than proceeding with the recipe.
205 2019-07-30 Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org>
207 * Version 1.2 released.
209 * The variable 'arch' has been added to the package meta file,
210 additionally, the variables 'program' and 'version' has been
211 replaced with 'pkgname' and 'pkgversion' which take the value
212 of those if they have not been previously established.
216 2019-05-19 Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org>
218 * Version 1.1 released.
220 * Default external tool for uncompressing files based on .tar.lz
221 archives has been changed in the unpack() function from tarlz(1) to
222 lzip(1) in combination with tar(1). This is because some files
223 could have been produced using a header format that differs from the
224 default format used by tarlz(1), e.g. the GNU format (by GNU tar).
226 * Some phrases have been improved in the manual, under the section
227 "5.3 Writing recipes". Thanks to kelsoo.
229 2019-04-15 Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org>
231 * Version 1.0 (stable) released.
233 * The manual (user guide) has been updated.