1 2021-12-14 Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org>
3 * Version 2.7 released.
5 * Now Qi is more precise with exit status number 4 and 6, by hitting
6 "exit" instead of just returning from the functions.
8 * Small corrections for the description of Qi and also for the manual
9 have been sent by Antonio Diaz Diaz. Thanks!
11 2021-11-01 Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org>
13 * Version 2.6 released.
15 * build: Make a checksum file for the copy of the recipe (the one
16 included in the package, from which the recipe was built).
18 * Do not read the configuration file on create, extract, and order
19 modes. It is not necessary to read the config file in these modes.
23 2021-09-28 Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org>
25 * Version 2.5 released.
27 * Searching for previously installed packages in an upgrade has been
28 simplified, which will speed up and save resources in upgrade mode.
30 * The network downloader has been changed to make use of GNU Wget2.
34 2021-04-12 Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org>
36 * Version 2.4 released.
38 * recipes: Added the variable "QICPPFLAGS" to pass the C/C++
39 preprocessor flags to the environment variable "CPPFLAGS".
41 * recipes: Added the "docs" and "docsdir" variables to be unset
42 after processing a recipe.
44 * recipes: Added support for executing other defined functions
45 besides the main build() function.
47 * recipes: Include build flags only if it is a real architecture
48 when creating a package meta.
50 * Change default values for QICFLAGS, QICXXFLAGS from "-g0 -O2" to
51 just "-O2". Including default value for LDFLAGS from "-s" to
52 just "" (none). This is to provide more generic values in the
53 package manager distribution.
55 * The documentation is in line with the changes made, plus the
56 sample recipes have been updated.
60 2020-12-25 Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org>
62 * Version 2.3 released.
64 * doc: The general documentation of Qi has been divided to allow its
65 inclusion from other .texi files. This does not affect the internal
66 functioning of Qi or the reading of the documentation for the user,
67 but rather it prepares for the incoming Dragora Handbook (Dragora is
68 the project from which Qi is currently developed).
72 2020-11-09 Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org>
74 * Version 2.2 released.
76 * Get the absolute path name to compose the current working directory
77 when build. A bug introduced in qi-2.0.
79 * The readconfig() function has been simplified.
81 2020-09-07 Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org>
83 * Version 2.1 released.
85 * Make the code for searching previous packages in an upgrade work again
86 (bug introduced in previous version).
90 2020-08-22 Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org>
92 * Version 2.0 released.
94 * The user interface has been revised to better differenciate commands
95 and options, for example: `qi install` instead of `qi -i`, `qi remove`
96 instead of `qi -d`, `qi upgrade` instead of `qi -u`, `qi build`
97 instead of `qi -b`, and so on.
99 * The layout of the produced package names has been changed to better
100 differenciate the software name and its version.
102 Before: name-version-architecture-release[@pkgcategory].tlz
103 Now: name_version_architecture-release[@pkgcategory].tlz
105 * The verbosity level has been changed to a minimal but essential result,
106 while it can now be adjusted from the configuration file.
108 * configure: The --arch= option has been added to define the default
109 package architecture.
111 * install: Fix assignation of 'rootdir' when it is empty and it
112 relies on the value of 'targetdir' when runs a post-install script
115 * doc: Fix examples for 'rootdir' since the package directory and
116 the target directory are relative to the specified root directory.
118 * recipes: Add the special variable 'keep_destdir' to complement
119 'keep_srcdir' in order to preserve 'destdir' when using build command.
121 * Be quieter by default in relation to the graft(1) output, if the
122 -v option is given it returns to the previous qi output behavior.
124 * Set the --missing-crc option to tarlz(1) by default to make the
125 package integrity check more reliable.
127 * Use the power of awk(1) to display package descriptions.
129 * Check and report if qi is connected to a terminal when reading from
132 * Qi's messages have been improved to differentiate themselves from
133 the output of other programs.
135 * Added "coreutils", "bash", and "mksh" to the blacklist filter when
138 * Support for the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH specification has been added.
139 See: https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/
141 * Default Qi C flags to be passed to the compiler (QICFLAGS, QICXXFLAGS)
142 has been changed from "-g0 -Os" to "-g0 -O2".
144 * The DESCRIPTION, OPTIONS, and ENVIRONMENT sections for the man page
145 (generated by help2man) have been reorganized.
147 * The main Info manual has been refreshed to reflect all these changes.
149 * The examples in the doc directory have been updated.
151 * The CREDITS file has been updated.
153 * Code clean up and minor (but important) enhancements.
155 2020-04-20 Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org>
157 * Version 1.4 released.
159 * build: Added support for optional "package category". If the
160 variable 'pkgcategory' is declared in a recipe, Qi will produce
161 packages ala "<name>-<version>-<architecture>+release@category".
163 * general: The configuration file is now included instead of being
164 analyzed. This is to have more room to declare things in general.
166 * build: The 'arch' value is used as suffix for produced packages
167 in order to have a well-organized (per-arch) output directory,
169 /var/cache/qi/packages/noarch/
170 /var/cache/qi/packages/i586/
171 /var/cache/qi/packages/x86_64/
174 * The code of blacklisted packages in the updates has been simplified.
176 * doc: The "Variables from the environment" section has been improved.
178 * build: The 'full_pkgname' variable is now added on the meta tag file.
180 * doc: The manual has been updated to conform to this version.
184 2019-09-10 Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org>
186 * Version 1.3 released.
188 * Check the exit status when a recipe is imported or included.
189 This will help to catch possible errors when using shell code,
190 rather than proceeding with the recipe.
194 2019-07-30 Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org>
196 * Version 1.2 released.
198 * The variable 'arch' has been added to the package meta file,
199 additionally, the variables 'program' and 'version' has been
200 replaced with 'pkgname' and 'pkgversion' which take the value
201 of those if they have not been previously established.
205 2019-05-19 Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org>
207 * Version 1.1 released.
209 * Default external tool for uncompressing files based on .tar.lz
210 archives has been changed in the unpack() function from tarlz(1) to
211 lzip(1) in combination with tar(1). This is because some files
212 could have been produced using a header format that differs from the
213 default format used by tarlz(1), e.g. the GNU format (by GNU tar).
215 * Some phrases have been improved in the manual, under the section
216 "5.3 Writing recipes". Thanks to kelsoo.
218 2019-04-15 Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org>
220 * Version 1.0 (stable) released.
222 * The manual (user guide) has been updated.