1 2020-12-25 Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org>
3 * Version 2.3 released.
5 * doc: The general documentation of Qi has been divided to allow its
6 inclusion from other .texi files. This does not affect the internal
7 functioning of Qi or the reading of the documentation for the user,
8 but rather it prepares for the incoming Dragora Handbook (Dragora is
9 the project from which Qi is currently developed).
13 2020-11-09 Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org>
15 * Version 2.2 released.
17 * Get the absolute path name to compose the current working directory
18 when build. A bug introduced in qi-2.0.
20 * The readconfig() function has been simplified.
22 2020-09-07 Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org>
24 * Version 2.1 released.
26 * Make the code for searching previous packages in an upgrade work again
27 (bug introduced in previous version).
31 2020-08-22 Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org>
33 * Version 2.0 released.
35 * The user interface has been revised to better differenciate commands
36 and options, for example: `qi install` instead of `qi -i`, `qi remove`
37 instead of `qi -d`, `qi upgrade` instead of `qi -u`, `qi build`
38 instead of `qi -b`, and so on.
40 * The layout of the produced package names has been changed to better
41 differenciate the software name and its version.
43 Before: name-version-architecture-release[@pkgcategory].tlz
44 Now: name_version_architecture-release[@pkgcategory].tlz
46 * The verbosity level has been changed to a minimal but essential result,
47 while it can now be adjusted from the configuration file.
49 * configure: The --arch= option has been added to define the default
52 * install: Fix assignation of 'rootdir' when it is empty and it
53 relies on the value of 'targetdir' when runs a post-install script
56 * doc: Fix examples for 'rootdir' since the package directory and
57 the target directory are relative to the specified root directory.
59 * recipes: Add the special variable 'keep_destdir' to complement
60 'keep_srcdir' in order to preserve 'destdir' when using build command.
62 * Be quieter by default in relation to the graft(1) output, if the
63 -v option is given it returns to the previous qi output behavior.
65 * Set the --missing-crc option to tarlz(1) by default to make the
66 package integrity check more reliable.
68 * Use the power of awk(1) to display package descriptions.
70 * Check and report if qi is connected to a terminal when reading from
73 * Qi's messages have been improved to differentiate themselves from
74 the output of other programs.
76 * Added "coreutils", "bash", and "mksh" to the blacklist filter when
79 * Support for the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH specification has been added.
80 See: https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/
82 * Default Qi C flags to be passed to the compiler (QICFLAGS, QICXXFLAGS)
83 has been changed from "-g0 -Os" to "-g0 -O2".
85 * The DESCRIPTION, OPTIONS, and ENVIRONMENT sections for the man page
86 (generated by help2man) have been reorganized.
88 * The main Info manual has been refreshed to reflect all these changes.
90 * The examples in the doc directory have been updated.
92 * The CREDITS file has been updated.
94 * Code clean up and minor (but important) enhancements.
96 2020-04-20 Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org>
98 * Version 1.4 released.
100 * build: Added support for optional "package category". If the
101 variable 'pkgcategory' is declared in a recipe, Qi will produce
102 packages ala "<name>-<version>-<architecture>+release@category".
104 * general: The configuration file is now included instead of being
105 analyzed. This is to have more room to declare things in general.
107 * build: The 'arch' value is used as suffix for produced packages
108 in order to have a well-organized (per-arch) output directory,
110 /var/cache/qi/packages/noarch/
111 /var/cache/qi/packages/i586/
112 /var/cache/qi/packages/x86_64/
115 * The code of blacklisted packages in the updates has been simplified.
117 * doc: The "Variables from the environment" section has been improved.
119 * build: The 'full_pkgname' variable is now added on the meta tag file.
121 * doc: The manual has been updated to conform to this version.
125 2019-09-10 Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org>
127 * Version 1.3 released.
129 * Check the exit status when a recipe is imported or included.
130 This will help to catch possible errors when using shell code,
131 rather than proceeding with the recipe.
135 2019-07-30 Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org>
137 * Version 1.2 released.
139 * The variable 'arch' has been added to the package meta file,
140 additionally, the variables 'program' and 'version' has been
141 replaced with 'pkgname' and 'pkgversion' which take the value
142 of those if they have not been previously established.
146 2019-05-19 Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org>
148 * Version 1.1 released.
150 * Default external tool for uncompressing files based on .tar.lz
151 archives has been changed in the unpack() function from tarlz(1) to
152 lzip(1) in combination with tar(1). This is because some files
153 could have been produced using a header format that differs from the
154 default format used by tarlz(1), e.g. the GNU format (by GNU tar).
156 * Some phrases have been improved in the manual, under the section
157 "5.3 Writing recipes". Thanks to kelsoo.
159 2019-04-15 Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org>
161 * Version 1.0 (stable) released.
163 * The manual (user guide) has been updated.