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1 VERSION DESCRIPTION
2 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3 4.0.1 - ensure VerbosePkgList table display supports multibyte chars
4 - always use stderr for warning/error messages (FS#26555)
5 - add guidance message for users when public keyring not found
6 - fix edge case in download progress bar rounding (FS#26853)
7 - ensure downloads started as tempfiles have correct umask
8 - ensure unowned symlinks are not overwritten incorrectly
9 - allow -U operation even without sync databases (FS#26899)
10 - update libtool files and update fix for -Wl,-as-needed
11 - fix build when using --disable-static (FS#26652)
12 - pacman-key: add a keyserver timeout value in --init
13 - repo-add: fix race condition around lock file removal
14 - makepkg:
15 - accept changelog= or install= without a value
16 - trim trailing whitespace from sensitive variables
17 - handle PGP signatures with a .sign extension
18 - delay attachment of signal traps (FS#26196)
19 - translations: multiple updates and corrections
20 4.0.0 - well-integrated and powerful signed packages and databases
21 support in pacman, the library, and scripts (FS#5331)
22 - over 800 commits to pacman.git since 3.5.4 release
23 - many code cleanup commits across library/binaries/scripts
24 - many performance improvement commits across library/binaries
25 - add new -S --recursive operation to upgrade a full dep chain
26 - report upgrade size on sync operations (FS#12566)
27 - early terminal input is flushed before question prompts
28 - remove duplicate code shared in sync and upgrade operations
29 - remove ShowSize; replaced with VerbosePkgLists (FS#15772)
30 - print callback (warning, error) messages to stderr (FS#25099)
31 - download progress callback has more room for filenames
32 - fix selection entry for long values (FS#25253)
33 - make config parsing two-pass process, enhance error messages
34 - print helpful tips on -Qi <filename> or -S <filename>
35 - replace libfetch with libcurl for backend download library
36 - timeout when mirror is not responding (FS#15369)
37 - full HTTPS protocol support (FS#22435)
38 - support of non-traditional/redirected URLs (FS#22645)
39 - ensure downloads are only resumed if appropriate (FS#23803)
40 - only remove empty directories if no remaining owner (FS#25141)
41 - better cache directory choosing and honor $TMPDIR (FS#25435)
42 - replaces are parsed as dependency-style strings (FS#23410)
43 - split package verification and load stages
44 - sync database reading refactor for performance
45 - use a larger buffer for package checksum validation
46 - filelists now have a dedicated type with metadata
47 - diskspace check no longer requires iterating package archives
48 - update and add checksum routines from PolarSSL
49 - validate sync database sha256sum if available
50 - correctly parse sizes in database > 2GiB
51 - API: several type renames from pm* to alpm_* prefix
52 - API: several enum constant renames from PM to ALPM_* prefix
53 - API: several types are now public exposed structs
54 - API: handle is no longer a single global variable
55 - API: more changes than can be mentioned here, see README
56 - much improved API documentation for use by Doxygen
57 - pactest: several performance/checking improvements
58 - scripts:
59 - refactor some common components into shared bash library
60 - split translations into pacman-scripts catalog (FS#15148)
61 - makepkg:
62 - allow signing packages after creation
63 - allow verifying source file signatures (FS#20448)
64 - add auto-versioned libdepends/libprovides support
65 - support UPX compression of executables (FS#17213)
66 - allow usage of an alternate build directory (FS#22308)
67 - cleancache option has been removed; use shell instead
68 - improved variable sanity checking (FS#16004)
69 - better handling of package extensions (.tar.Z or invalid)
70 - allow PKGEXT/SRCEXT environment overrides (FS#19860)
71 - only check for writable PKGDEST if necessary (FS#24735)
72 - check_software function exits early if missing req'd binaries
73 - do source packaging in fakeroot (FS#24330)
74 - be more POSIX-compatible in use of `ln` (FS#24893)
75 - handle spaces with filenames in noextract (FS#25100)
76 - allow epoch-versioned optdepends
77 - pacman-key: new keyring management tool for signed data
78 - pacsort: new utility, sort version numbers as pacman does
79 - pactree: support sync databases with -s option
80 - pkgdelta: add a manpage
81 - repo-add:
82 - handle and include package signatures in databases
83 - verify database signature before modification
84 - sign database after creation/modification
85 - general script cleanup and bash-ification
86 - add sha256sums to database (FS#23103)
87 - contrib/bacman: code cleanups and small bug fixes
88 - contrib/bash_completion: updates for new options/commands
89 - contrib/paccache: new, pacman cache cleanup script
90 - contrib/paclist: rewrite using bash
91 - contrib/paclog-pkglist: new, recover from missing local DB
92 - documentation: extensive updates to all manpages
93 - translations: extensive updates, new languages: lt, zh_TW
94 3.5.4 - fix display of lists on non-TTYs and other output fixes
95 - fix group selection entry for large inputs (FS#24253)
96 - fix divide by zero when downloading zero length files
97 - flush terminal input before reading response (FS#20538)
98 - allow files to be replaced by directories (FS#24904)
99 - makepkg: fix filenames with spaces and noextract (FS#25100)
100 - scripts: remove ln -f option for POSIX compliance (FS#24893)
101 - various small documentation updates
102 - minor translation updates: de, fi
103 3.5.3 - segfault when creating lock in non-existent dir (FS#24292)
104 - segfault when uninstalling broken backed-up symlink (FS#24230)
105 - --print should not enable --noconfirm (FS#24287)
106 - fix default path substitution in documentation
107 - makepkg: quote variables that may contain spaces (FS#24002)
108 - makepkg: fix creation of source package with -p (FS#24567)
109 - repo-add: include dotfiles in filelists (FS#24534)
110 - minor translation updates: de, fi, fr, sk, zh_CN
111 3.5.2 - ensure we show correct missing dependency info (FS#23424)
112 - pacman usage/--help updates (FS#23433, FS#23369)
113 - ensure stdout/stderr are flushed before prompts (FS#23492)
114 - compile/portability fixes for FreeBSD platform
115 - extensive documentation updates for alpm.h interfaces
116 - fix several missing pm_errno error code returns
117 - makepkg:
118 - simplify log redirection and remove sync (FS#23378)
119 - improve parsing for sanity checks (FS#23524)
120 - avoid use of `tr` to avoid locale and other issues
121 - fix GNU-ism in `su` invocation
122 - bacman: update for new local database format (FS#23641)
123 - extensive translation updates and fixes
124 3.5.1 - don't error on unknown pacman.conf directives (FS#23055)
125 - only read arguments from stdin if '-' is provided as target
126 - fix case with ignore handling in argument list (FS#23342)
127 - don't show group selection prompt with -Sp (FS#23340)
128 - restore old --debug/--verbose behavior (FS#23370)
129 - ensure repo DBs are saved with sane umask (FS#23343)
130 - fix segfault when a repo includes deltas entries (FS#23314)
131 - fix potential data corruption issue on sync DB read
132 - get zsh completion in a working state (FS#23322)
133 - makepkg: improve optdepends extraction (FS#23307)
134 - translations:
135 - de: fix makepkg fatal error (FS#23315)
136 - sr, sr@latin: new Serbian translation
137 - various other translation updates
138 - build system: ensure libtool respects LDFLAGS (FS#23325)
139 3.5.0 - sync DBs read directly from the database tarball
140 (FS#8586, FS#20233)
141 - local DB "depends" file has been merged into the "desc" file
142 - pacman-db-upgrade script provided to update the local
143 database format
144 - sync database extension is .db (without compression suffix)
145 - requires repo-add from pacman-3.4+
146 - package versions can have an 'epoch' value defined that will
147 overrule any version comparison
148 - this replaces the use of the "force" option in allowing for
149 package updates with versions that do not conform to the
150 default version comparison operations
151 - package versions have the format [epoch:]pkgver-pkgrel
152 - check available disk space before installing packages (FS#11639)
153 - enabled by the "CheckSpace" option in pacman.conf
154 - attempt to stop install if we hit an extraction issue
155 (FS#7692, FS#22034)
156 - improved interactive selection for groups/provides
157 (FS#19704, FS#19853)
158 - finer grained control of ignoring dependency resolution
159 - -Sd to ignore dependency versions only
160 - -Sdd to ignore all dependency information
161 - clean-up of --help output (FS#19526)
162 - CleanMethod for package cache cleaning can use both
163 KeepInstalled and KeepCurrent simultaneously
164 - various speed-ups:
165 - improved internal storage of the package cache
166 - faster pkgname/depends searches
167 - use OpenSSL crypto functions if available
168 - makepkg:
169 - add support for running testsuites in a check() function
170 (FS#15145)
171 - controlled by BUILDENV option 'check' in makepkg.conf
172 which may be overridden by --check/--nocheck on the
173 command-line
174 - extract any file bsdtar recognizes
175 - STRIP_DIRS has been removed in favor of stripping all
176 recognized files
177 - improve $srcdir/$pkgdir check to reduce false positives
178 - $pkgname can be used in split package() functions (FS#22174)
179 - added '!buildflags' option to allow unsetting of CFLAGS,
180 CXXFLAGS and LDFLAGS
181 - repo-add: added -f/--files to create files database (FS#11302)
182 - pactree: rewritten in C using libalpm
183 3.4.3 - fix attempted double remove of all files issue during upgrades
184 - respect IgnorePkg/IgnoreGroup for group members (FS#19854)
185 - back out epoch changes; 3.5.X will handle them differently
186 3.4.2 - fix progress bar display with empty packages
187 - make pactest testsuite Python 2.7 compatible
188 - write epoch values in preparation for 3.5.X releases
189 - fix null pointer dereference in architecture check (FS#21668)
190 - documentation: remove unnecessary "|| return 1"
191 - contrib/bacman: update package compression selection
192 - contrib/PKGBUILD.vim: add a few more license options
193 - translations: es, kk, sv, pt, ru updated
194 3.4.1 - fix interaction of --needed and multiple repo groups (FS#20221)
195 - bash completion: small fixes to prevent alias problems
196 - rankmirrors: fix bogus/empty variable assignment (FS#19911)
197 - repo-add: ensure bare DB symlinks are relative (FS#20498)
198 - repo-add: fallback to copy if symlink not permitted (FS#19907)
199 - makepkg:
200 - use absolute path to 'du' to exclude wrapper progs (FS#19932)
201 - ensure $startdir check doesn't stall indefinitely (FS#19975)
202 - fix repackaging with multiple passed packages (FS#20272)
203 - translations:
204 - zh_CN: fix crash when using during install (FS#20188)
205 - sk: new Slovak translation
206 - pt: new European Portuguese translation
207 - other small updates to various translations
208 3.4.0 - new "Architecture" option that will restrict pacman to
209 installing only packages from the given architecture. Can be
210 set to "auto" in which case the output of "uname -m" is used
211 - use "$arch" when specifying a mirror url to automatically
212 select the correct architecture
213 - Installing packages with -U can handle installing
214 dependencies, conflict resolution and replacing packages
215 (FS#3492, FS#5798)
216 - can upgrade the system and install a new package using
217 "pacman -Syu <pkg>" (FS#15581)
218 - new -D/--database operation for modifying package install
219 reasons (FS#12950)
220 - new --print and --print-format options to output information
221 in suitable format for wrapper scripts (FS#14208)
222 - only extract new entries when updating a repo database
223 - show "Required by" in -Sii output (FS#16244)
224 - -U and -R options always ask for confirmation
225 - allow -Qo to perform a functional 'which' (FS#8798)
226 - cache cleaning cleans all directories, not just first
227 - cleanupdelta: new utility to help remove unused deltas from
228 a repo database
229 - bash completion: rewrite for size and performance (FS#16630)
230 - repo-add: handle removing the final package from a repo
231 - rankmirrors: rewrite using bash
232 - vercmp: does not link to libalpm to prevent upgrade issues
233 - makepkg:
234 - automatically aborts on any errors during packaging
235 - changelogs are now included via the "changelog" variable
236 - override pkgver, pkgrel and arch in split packages (FS#15955)
237 - repackaging without a package() function is deprecated
238 - stricter syntax checking for backup and optdepends entries
239 - file stripping options are configurable
240 - New --pkg flag to allow building specific package(s) from
241 split PKGBUILDs (FS#15956)
242 - build() function is now optional (FS#15147)
243 - warn about reference to build root in a package (FS#14751)
244 - configure source package destination with SRCPKGDEST
245 - major internal refactoring of handling tests ("[" to "[[")
246 - contrib/pactree: print reverse dependency tree
247 3.3.3 - correctly check the return code from opendir()
248 - fix possible infinite loop in alpm_list_remove()
249 - makepkg:
250 - quote arrays to preserve spaces in arrays (FS#16871)
251 - allow passing arguments with spaces
252 - adjust preselected option for clearing cache
253 - translations:
254 - zh_CN: fix positional parameter usage in makepkg (FS#16983)
255 - el: fix Y/N response translation (FS#16568)
256 3.3.2 - fix infinite filesize download issue (FS#16359)
257 - fix bogus download size on TotalDownload
258 - documentation updates
259 - small translation updates
260 - repo-add: use size of target files and not symlinks
261 - repo-remove: create empty DB when all packages are removed
262 3.3.1 - use full path to ldconfig when calling in chroot
263 - optimize the check for modified databases during sync
264 - ensure installed libfetch is new enough
265 - have -Q ops return 1 when no package matches (FS#15938)
266 - skip SyncFirst dialog if unnecessary (FS#15810)
267 - misc documentation updates (FS#15870, FS#15984)
268 - testdb: be less verbose during checks
269 - existing translation updates
270 - two new translations: Norwegian, Swedish
271 - makepkg:
272 - add --skipinteg option (FS#15830)
273 - fix .PKGINFO creation with -R option (FS#15851)
274 - always keep symlinks to sources when unpacking
275 3.3.0 - xdelta: many fixes and improvements
276 - new pkgdelta script to create deltas
277 - repo-add can add both deltas and packages to a database
278 - xz archive format supported for packages and databases
279 - in case of unresolvable packages, pacman now asks
280 if they should be skipped instead of aborting
281 - -Suu synchronizes all packages with the version from the
282 repository (including upgrade and downgrade)
283 - replace libdownload dependency by the original libfetch
284 - better support of -q/--quiet flag with -Qo and -Ql
285 - -Sp works without root (FS#8905)
286 - fix a bug where the replacement of a package failed because
287 of a file conflict, and the package was lost (FS#9088)
288 - improved behavior of HoldPkg option (FS#9173)
289 - allow to ignore a package from a group (FS#12059)
290 - search package groups when searching a db (FS#13099)
291 - asciidoc fixes
292 - documentation updates
293 - repo-add: cleanups, improvements and speedup
294 - makepkg:
295 - package splitting support! - see PKGBUILD-split.proto
296 - limit fakeroot usage with addition of package() function
297 - info is handled like man pages and not other documentation
298 - configuration option for man/info page directories
299 - added ability to automatically remove files from package
300 - configuration option for default LDFLAGS
301 - specify alternative configuration file with --config flag
302 - check all integrity checksums provided in PKGBUILD
303 - fix pkgver/pkgrel updating in SCM packages
304 - BUILDSCRIPT option removed from makepkg.conf. Now specified
305 during configure
306 - enforce no ">" or "<" in provides array
307 - package compression autodetection
308 - check PKGBUILD for CRLF line endings
309 - fix reading PKGBUILD from pipe
310 - increase compatibility with BSDs & Mac OSX
311 - contrib
312 - pacdiff - improvements and new -l flag for using locate
313 - pacscripts - print install scripts for a package
314 3.2.2 - log pacsave warnings to pacman.log (FS#12531)
315 - separate local DB creation and writing (FS#12263)
316 - pacman-optimize: rewrite and refresh (FS#11767)
317 - repo-add: use openssl instead of md5sum
318 - simplify doc building process for ease of development
319 - ensure correct handling of syscall interruptions
320 - readd missing newline on -Qi/-Si output (FS#11331)
321 - fix TotalDownload regression (FS#11339)
322 - makepkg:
323 - replace getopt with an internal function
324 - detect incorrect usage of provides (FS#12540)
325 - fix bash substitution to work in older versions
326 - fix updating PKGBUILD and simplify logic for SCM packages
327 - save/restore shell options before/after build() (FS#12344)
328 - documentation updates and asciidoc build fix
329 - existing translation updates
330 3.2.1 - drop special handling of file:// URLs
331 - display optdepends on install and upgrade
332 - fix segfault on x86_64 when using UseSyslog (FS#11096)
333 - fix detection of TotalDownload (FS#11180)
334 - fix "No such file" error during --force installs (FS#11218)
335 - better handling of progressbar when behind a proxy (FS#8725)
336 - repo-add: fix whitespace handling (FS#9171, FS#10630)
337 - repo-add: add optdepends to the sync DB (FS#10630)
338 - makepkg:
339 - allow specifying a download filename (related to FS#11292)
340 - fix download functions with weird URLs (FS#11076)
341 - fix creation of source package with local files (FS#11149)
342 - fix error when sourcing profile scripts (FS#11179)
343 - perform case-insensitive checksum comparison (FS#11283)
344 - documentation and help updates (including fix for FS#11203)
345 - new Ukrainian translation
346 - existing translation updates
347 3.2.0 - removed -A/--add option from pacman frontend
348 - added --asexplicit option
349 - new remove option --unneeded
350 - add -Rss option to remove all dependencies
351 - removed useless -e/--dependsonly option
352 - config options are now case sensitive
353 - added CleanMethod option for variety in cache cleaning
354 - new Turkish translation, all others updated and revised
355 - handle multiple groups in -Ss and -Qs operations
356 - allow -q/--quiet option with -o/--own and -g/--groups options
357 - removed hack for packages with unknown installed size
358 - add SyncFirst option to pacman.conf
359 - support installation of versioned deps : pacman -S "dep>=2.0"
360 - add --enable-git-version configure flag to identify
361 developmental build version
362 - do not duplicate packages in required by list
363 - pacman.static is no longer built
364 - all error messages use pm_fprintf
365 - disable geteuid in cygwin
366 - use off_t type for large file support
367 - add vercmp test script
368 - moved gensync and updatesync to contrib/
369 - rewrote pacsearch script in perl
370 - paclist script to list installed packages from a repo
371 - bacman script to make backup of package from filesystem
372 - combined repo-add and repo-remove into one script
373 - removed --force option from repo-add
374 - add --quiet option to repo-add/repo-remove
375 - update libtool version to 1.5.26
376 - allow disabling of internal download with new configure
377 flag --disable-internal-download
378 - pactest can now check file permissions
379 - add the possibility to mark the pactests known to fail,
380 which allows more informative results of make check
381 - libalpm-specific changes:
382 - use dynamic string allocation in package structure
383 - new functions for manipulating pmdepend_t objects
384 - store replaces and force in local database
385 - moved deptest functionality to backend
386 - add alpm_checkdbconflicts function
387 - fix PM_ERR_CONFLICTING_DEPS handling
388 - cleanup of pmsyncpkg_t
389 - add alpm_sync_newversion function
390 - cleanup of alpm_list code
391 - refactor of download code
392 - download callback API changes
393 - removed test_delta_md5sum and test_pkg_md5sum functions
394 - add _alpm_archive_fgets function to read line-by-line from
395 an archive
396 - read .PKGINFO directly from package file with no temp file
397 - native support for both libdownload and libfetch
398 - rework delta algorithm (we still need script updates)
399 - swap parameters of alpm_pkg_find for consistency with
400 other find functions
401 - swap parameters of PM_TRANS_CONV_INSTALL_IGNOREPKG to make
402 more sense
403 - fix -Rs when removing multiple items in dependency chain
404 - makepkg-specific changes:
405 - support for resuming source downloads
406 - added zipman option
407 - removed -b/--builddeps
408 - various portability fixes for BSD and Mac OS X
409 - check for valid options in PKGBUILD
410 - add --allsource option
411 - remove deprecated --usesudo option
412 - handle spaces in build directory
413 - made keeping docs the default option
414 - use pacman version dep resolving
415 - fix regression in library stripping
416 - make strip paths configurable
417 - MANY other bug fixes and small improvements
418 3.1.4 - various small code cleanups and fixes
419 - small documentation updates
420 - improvements to PKGBUILD.vim
421 - translation updates - ru, zh_CN
422 3.1.3 - major updates to i18n output in frontend (all UTF-8 characters
423 should now work with varying byte and char widths)
424 - new Simplified Chinese translation
425 - updates to testpkg utility
426 - updates to PKGBUILD.vim
427 - internal updates for translations - use c-format on all
428 strings, get rid of needless line numbers
429 3.1.2 - updates to proto.install, add ChangeLog.proto (FS#7231)
430 - add 'force' option to packages, and have repo-add respect it
431 - mark gensync and updatesync as deprecated
432 - fix pacman -Qo behavior on symlinks (FS#9473)
433 - fix segfault on a broken symlinks in backup code (FS#9235)
434 - ensure filename is determined correctly for a pkg (FS#9547)
435 - fix conflict progress bar with UTF-8 chars (FS#6437)
436 - fix chk_fileconflicts brokenness, ensure it reads entire list
437 - ensure -Sc operation locks DB, only checks DBs (FS#9609)
438 - minor documentation and message updates
439 - moved some translations to their more generic lang codes
440 - allow scripts to be run without gettext installed
441 - makepkg:
442 - check to ensure we have non-URL sources (FS#9208)
443 - ensure we strip binaries in /opt/ dirs (FS#9342)
444 - check for VCS executable before using (FS#9230)
445 - set sane umask before source extraction (FS#9242, FS#9362)
446 3.1.1 - fix versioned provisions handling- use '=' instead of ' ' which
447 differs from original spec but better in long run (FS#9171)
448 - rename query --orphans to --unrequired (FS#9144)
449 - fix segfault when cachedir is unusable (FS#9186)
450 - missing SYMEXPORT on libalpm functions (FS#9155)
451 - notify of package replacements when using --noconfirm (FS#5179)
452 - fix usage of PKGEXT by gensync/updatesync (FS#9190)
453 - ensure correct dir permissions in database (FS#9176)
454 - ensure /tmp is created with correct permissions (FS#9183)
455 - disallow NULL section in parseconfig (reported on forums)
456 - remove Arch-specific pacman.conf and mirrorlist from source
457 - makepkg: --holdver option for devel PKGBUILDs (FS#9194)
458 - documentation updates (FS# 9142, 9146, 9175, 9192, 9204)
459 - many translation updates
460 3.1.0 - paths are now specified as absolute paths (or defaulting to
461 under the specified root directory)
462 - all paths can be specified in pacman.conf or on command line
463 - updates to pacman clean operation- now cleans uninstalled
464 packages and old sync DBs (FS#8061)
465 - remove all hardcoded paths and allow them to be set at
466 configure/build time
467 - single mirrorfile- pacman substitutes the repository name in
468 mirror file when $repo is found (FS#6389)
469 - New config file options: ShowSize, TotalDownload, IgnoreGroup,
470 UseDelta
471 - all scripts have been gettext-ized and can be translated
472 - added testdb utility to check pacman DBs for common problems
473 - huge additions to pactest suite
474 - remove -F/--freshen operation
475 - add --ignoregroup option (FS#1592)
476 - --ignore and --ignoregroup accept comma separated lists
477 - add --needed option for --sync
478 - massive optimization and speedup for --owns
479 - add -q/--quiet option for -Ss/-Sl and -Q? output (FS#8470)
480 - add --asdeps option (install reason: dependency) (FS#7193)
481 - replace "Total Package Size" with "Total Download Size"
482 (FS#4182)
483 - fix -Q options to work on installed packages AND package files
484 - change -Q/--query options to act as filters and increase their
485 flexibility
486 - -U/-A <url> now downloads to cachedir (FS#6404)
487 - install and build dates are localized
488 - optdepends support
489 - delta support
490 - versioned provisions support
491 - versioned conflicts support
492 - add < and > operators for versioned dependencies and conflicts
493 - bash completion updates
494 - mirrorlist updates
495 - removed ABS script from codebase (now a separate project)
496 - allow multiple pacman cache directories
497 - all manpages are now generated using Asciidoc (FS#7312)
498 - moved parseconfig from backend library to frontend
499 - clean up and refactoring of the ENTIRE codebase
500 - remove many useless #ifdefs
501 - split many too-long functions
502 - portability updates: compiles and passes tests on BSD and
503 Darwin (switching libdownload->libfetch)
504 - clean up build process
505 - use of static code analysis
506 - memory leak fixes all over the place
507 - fix overzealous use of macros
508 - entire codebase builds with -pedantic GCC option
509 - libalpm-specific changes:
510 - moved location of sync DBs into their own folder to thwart
511 deletion and remove naming limitations
512 - REQUIREDBY entries are no longer used in local DB but are
513 computed on the fly when needed, which should resolve
514 phantom dependency issues (FS#7639)
515 - ensure we export everything that should be public
516 - fix some const correctness issues
517 - add list tail ptr shortcut to make last element lookups O(1)
518 - database dates are stored as seconds from epoch
519 - removed SHA1 support
520 - drop in new MD5 library
521 - implement topological sorting for dependencies
522 - do case sensitive compare in parse_descfile (FS#8081)
523 - remove hardcoded architectures
524 - conflicts checking speedups and fixes
525 - move lockfile location to inside the DB
526 - remove gettext calls from DEBUG messages
527 - remove faulty diskspace checking
528 - move functions out of alpm.c to where they belong
529 - rewrite of file extraction code (FS#7484)
530 - makepkg-specific changes:
531 - entire script has been functionalized
532 - only runs in fakeroot when necessary
533 - hard linked manpages are now compressed (FS#5392)
534 - built-in versionpkg support
535 - arch=('any') support (FS#8153)
536 - clean up and prettify the output
537 - replace tar/cpio/unzip with bsdtar (FS#7485)
538 - add --ignorearch option (FS#7355)
539 - improved error handling
540 - downloads straight to $SRCDEST to avoid copies (FS#7271)
541 - support for multiple download protocols (FS#4404)
542 - remove --usesudo option, use it by default
543 - add --asroot option to discourage building as root
544 - add $srcdir and $pkgdir variables (FS#7278)
545 - add source package creation option
546 - rankmirrors- allow reading from stdin (FS#8043)
547 - and many other updates: 198 bugs/FRs closed since 3.0.0 release
548 - switch to GIT for source code management
549 3.0.6 - config files updated to reflect current -> core change
550 - fix symlink overwriting issue (FS#7484)
551 - fix config parsing with tr_TR locale (FS#7235)
552 - use AC_SYS_LARGEFILE if available (FS#7578)
553 3.0.5 - add -mtune=generic to default CFLAGS in makepkg.conf
554 - small updates to translations
555 - repo-add: fix conflicts issue for real this time
556 - fix issue with libarchive incorrectly setting permissions
557 3.0.4 - updated translations
558 - repo-add: fix issue where conflicts were not put in database
559 3.0.3 - updated translations
560 - repo-add: fixed a desc file clobbering issue
561 3.0.2 - fix a bug where pre/post_remove scriptlets were not ran
562 - ensure ldconfig is ran in all operations
563 - added a few new translations, updated existing ones
564 - updated mirror lists
565 - makepkg: ensure CFLAGS are exported to build function
566 3.0.1 - fix a locale issue with tr_TR upper/lower-case conversion
567 - allow removal when listing the same package multiple times
568 - fix a repo-add bug that left a .PKGINFO file in the current
569 directory
570 - proper error messages when we cannot read mtab for freespace
571 3.0.0 - first release based on libalpm backend
572 - added internationalization (gettext) support:
573 - de, fr, hu, it, pt_BR, en_GB, ru_RU translations
574 - switch to usage of libdownload and libarchive
575 - improved proxy support using libdownload
576 - documentation - man pages updated, new conf manpages added
577 - repository mirror list updates
578 - added support for package changelogs
579 - logging of all install scriptlet messages to pacman.log
580 - orphans search (-Qe) now shows true orphans
581 - new -Qu option - show all packages that can be upgraded
582 - new -Se option - install only dependencies
583 - dependency sorting on install and removal
584 - check for free space before installing packages
585 - prompt to delete corrupted packages
586 - improved backup handling - backup array proactive on upgrade
587 - removed NoUpgrade lines from default pacman.conf
588 - new uncompressed size field, shown on sync upgrade
589 - improved progress and progressbar output
590 - reduced unnecessary calling of ldconfig
591 - selective loading of database to speed up certain operations
592 - debugging output improved with --debug flag
593 - pacman-optimize - now supports DBs on separate filesystem
594 - makepkg and abs now support conf files in home directory
595 - makepkg changes:
596 - arch field is required
597 - added -arch suffix to generated package filenames
598 - new configuration file options format
599 - changed default configuration
600 - support alternate integrity checks
601 - extract files using filetype, not extension
602 - added noextract array
603 - new options array format
604 - new option to log build process
605 - new --repackage option - repackage pkg/ without building
606 - user-selectable paths for doc stripping
607 - configurable source cache location
608 - dependencies now removed on a build success or failure
609 - abs changes:
610 - supports both cvsup and csup
611 - expanded configuration
612 - added support for testing repository
613 - new helper scripts:
614 - rankmirrors - shows best available mirrors
615 - repo-add - adds a package to a repo database file
616 - repo-remove - removes a package from a repo database file
617 - added pactest testing suite
618 - MANY fixes and small improvements everywhere
619 2.9.8 - Changed behaviour with original=X,current=Y,new=Z scenario
620 - keep old in place, install new as .pacnew
621 - Search package provides when finding matching targets with -S
622 - Frugalware: added -Qm option to find foreign packages
623 - Frugalware: added DistCC support to makepkg
624 - bugfix: before searching databases for a dependency, make sure
625 one of the packages in the final list doesn't already provide
626 that dependency
627 - fix for segfaults that occurred when propagating requiredby
628 fields to replaced packages where one package depended on
629 another replaced package
630 - a better fix for pacman-optimize integrity checks
631 - fix for regex searches with -Ss (Miklos Vajna)
632 - added a --noprogressbar for scripts to use
633 2.9.7 - fixed the dupe listings of packages when dealing w/ groups
634 - patches from Miklos Vajna:
635 - add regexp search support for -Qs and -Ss
636 - fixed md5sums on x86_64
637 - add --sudosync to makepkg
638 - show syntax help if an invalid option is used
639 - added makepkg option to disable ccache support
640 - changed license field to operate as an array, not a string
641 - added more logic for file conflict checks - if one target
642 is a file and the other is a directory, then it's a conflict
643 - fixed the integrity check in pacman-optimize
644 - reverted NoUpgrade to old behaviour and instead, added the
645 NoExtract directive to pacman.conf, which prevents a file
646 from ever being extracted on to the system
647 eg, NoExtract = home/httpd/html/index.html
648 2.9.6 - added a pacman-optimize script to try and defragment the DB
649 - modified NoUpgrade behaviour to avoid extracting files
650 that are missing from the filesystem -- this helps in
651 situations where the admin does not want the file there, eg,
652 remove index.html so index.php takes precedence
653 - fixed a bug where files would sometimes go missing if they
654 moved from one package to another
655 - add db_remove() which is responsible for clearing out stale
656 hash table entries when packages are removed
657 - added ccache support to makepkg
658 - patch from Aurelien Foret fixes a few memory leaks
659 2.9.5 - bugfix: missing files after re-ordering packages wrt
660 deps with --upgrade
661 - added "Repository" line to -Si output
662 - patch from Tommi Rantala to fix trim() behaviour with
663 empty or whitespace-only strings
664 - fixed removal order when using -Rc or -Rs
665 2.9.4 - fixed a bug that was introduced from another bugfix :-/
666 2.9.3 - fixed a couple manpage typos
667 - added --ignore to -S operations, works just like IgnorePkg
668 - respect IgnorePkg list when pulling in dependencies
669 - numerous memleak fixes
670 - some code changes to improve customizability/branding
671 - Makefile fix for nonstandard lib search paths (Kevin Piche)
672 - fixed the leftover directories in /tmp
673 - speed improvement patches from Tommi Rantala
674 2.9.2 - bugfix for 2.9.1
675 2.9.1 - --refresh now only downloads fresh packages lists if they've
676 been updated (currently only works with FTP)
677 2.9 - Improved -Rs functionality -- pacman now tracks why a package
678 is installed: explicitly, or as a dependency for another
679 package. -Rs will only remove dependencies that were not
680 explicitly installed.
681 - Added compressed package size to sync DBs -- shows the total
682 size of packages before downloading
683 - Patch from Tommi Rantala:
684 - Allow --info and --list together in queries
685 - Patch from Kevin Piche:
686 - Use list_add_sorted() with -Sg
687 - Patch from Hegedus Marton Csaba:
688 - Better manpage compression
689 - Added checks for additional hyphens in package versions
690 - mktemp was failing if %pmo_root%/tmp was missing -- fixed
691 2.8.4 - Added updatesync script from Jason Chu
692 - Changed the pacman binary to be dynamically linked
693 - Included a pacman.static binary as well
694 - Added fakeroot checks when seeing if we're root
695 - Fixed makepkg to use 'tail -n 1' instead of 'tail -1'
696 - Added patch from Kevin Piche:
697 - Cleanup db_loadpkgs(), add list_add_sorted()
698 - Fixed a memory leak in db_find_conflicts()
699 2.8.3 - Fixed a little makepkg bug with bash 3.0
700 - Fixed resolvedeps to always prefer literals over provisios
701 - Added --config option to specify an alternate config file
702 - Added "Include" directive to include repositories from
703 config files (inspired by Michael Baehr's patch)
704 - Added patch from Jason Chu:
705 - Even smarter file-conflict checking
706 2.8.2 - Fixed a segfault bug in file-conflict checks
707 - Made --noconfirm actually work. Go me.
708 2.8.1 - Added a HoldPkg option in pacman.conf, for the more
709 exploratory users who run things like "pacman -R pacman". It
710 will ask for confirmation before removing any packages listed
711 in the HoldPkg list
712 - Added a --noconfirm switch for use with script automation
713 - Modified dependency resolution to prefer packages explicitly
714 requested on the cmdline instead of those pulled in by
715 resolvedeps(). Example, if neither "xorg" nor "xfree86" is
716 installed and "blackbox xfree86" is requested, "xfree86" will
717 be used instead of "xorg"
718 - Added patch from Jason Chu:
719 - Smarter file-conflict checking with symlinked paths and
720 with files that move from one package to another
721 2.8 - Bugfixes:
722 - FS#861: file:/// urls not handled properly with XferCommand
723 - FS#1003: set umask before scriptlet calls
724 - FS#1027: download problems with http urls using -U/-A
725 - FS#1044: segfaults when using -Rs
726 - FS#863: "missing post_remove" errors with some packages
727 - FS#875: detect low disk space properly
728 - FS#986: makepkg -e doesn't validate files
729 - FS#1010: add -j option to makepkg
730 - FS#1028: make pacman -Sp runnable as non-root
731 - added pre_install and pre_upgrade scriptlet support
732 - added an "Architecture" field in the package meta-data
733 - added patch from Aurelien Foret which improves performance
734 adding or removing packages
735 - added implementation of GNU's strverscmp function for better
736 portability
737 - added explicit unlink() calls when --force is used, which
738 prevents those nasty "Text file busy" errors when you
739 force-upgrade something like pacman or glibc.
740 2.7.9 - added the "force" option to packages, so --sysupgrade can
741 downgrade packages when it needs to
742 2.7.8 - added post_remove scriptlet support
743 - added -Qs option (FS#854)
744 - a provisio does not imply conflict, to make a provisio target
745 conflict with anything else that provides the same thing, you
746 can now do this by specifying the provisio target as both a
747 provides and a conflict, eg:
748 conflicts=('x-server')
749 provides=('x-server')
750 - cleaned up the download progress bar a bit
751 - added %o parameter to XferCommand so wget can resume properly
752 - fixed a segfault in downloadfiles() (FS#787)
753 - patches from Oliver Burnett-Hall
754 - gensync uses a better temp dir (FS#774)
755 - PKGDEST can be set in makepkg.conf (FS#783)
756 - patches from Aurelien Foret
757 - segfault fix, couple memory leaks
758 - more sanity checks in "provides" searches
759 - fixed a little display bug in the progress bar
760 - made -Qip look like -Qi
761 - -Sc now removes OLD packages from cache, use -Scc for all
762 2.7.7 - added an XferCommand directive that will make pacman use an
763 external download utility like wget
764 - added a license field to package meta-data
765 - add url support to -A and -U operations (download packages)
766 - -Ss now searches thru provides fields
767 - added --dbonly option to -R
768 2.7.6 - added --print-uris option
769 - fixed an http download bug (FS#667)
770 - fixed a segfault related to replaces/conflicts handling
771 2.7.5 - "replaces" packages were ignoring IgnorePkg in pacman.conf
772 - fixed another bug in conflict handling
773 - found an out-dated reference to /usr/abs, fixed
774 - added a --recursive option for package removal, which removes
775 all deps of a target that aren't required by other packages
776 2.7.4 - fixed a bug in conflict handling, where installing a
777 conflicting package would fail even if the new package
778 "provided" it
779 - if pacman sees a newer version of itself during an upgrade,
780 it will ask to install itself first, then be re-run to upgrade
781 the other packages.
782 - You can now use the --info option with --sync to display an
783 uninstalled package's dependency info.
784 - Added a sane umask before db writes
785 - buffer overflow fix (FS#442)
786 2.7.3 - makepkg not longer strips files with .exe or .dll extensions
787 - Added Aurelien's patch:
788 - proxy support (no authentication yet)
789 - HTTP/1.1 support
790 - an improved progress bar with transfer rates and ETA
791 - cleaned up warning output a bit
792 2.7.2 - Supressed "No such file" messages during stripping
793 - Removed extra newlines in /var/log/pacman.log
794 - Added a --noextract option to makepkg to skip source extraction
795 2.7.1 - Fixed a couple obscure segfaults
796 - LogFiles were logging incorrect dates - fixed
797 - Cleaned up md5sum output in makepkg -g
798 - Added (optional) colorized output messages to makepkg
799 - Renamed the "stable" repo to "release" in pacman.conf
800 - Renamed the "unofficial" repo to "extra" in pacman.conf
801 2.7 - Added build-time dependencies to makepkg (Jason Chu)
802 - Added md5sum integrity checking to packages in --sync
803 mode (Aurelien Foret)
804 - Memory leak fixes (Aurelien Foret)
805 - Added CARCH variable to makepkg.conf for use in PKGBUILDs
806 - Added LogFile option for direct-to-file logging
807 - Added -Qii handling to show modified config files
808 - Allow --sync targets to specify an explicit repository to
809 sync from (eg, pacman -S current/patch)
810 2.6.4 - Altered pacman_upgrade() to allow a package to replace itself
811 2.6.3 - A couple memory fixes in the new replaces code
812 2.6.2 - Fixed a memory cleanup bug
813 - Aurelien's patch:
814 - FS#159 implemented (for -S and -R)
815 - fixed a bug with pacman -Sg (pacman was browsing only one
816 db to get groups)
817 - fixed a bug with list_merge()
818 - fixed some MLK (in dumppkg() and with "-Qi --orphans")
819 - now "pacman -Sg" only displays groups (without content)
820 whereas "pacman -Sg target1 target2" displays groups
821 target1 and target2 with content
822 2.6.1 - Added http download support (Aurelien Foret)
823 - Improved makepkg's --builddeps behaviour when called via
824 makeworld
825 - makepkg's md5 validation now occurs before source extraction
826 - makepkg delays fakeroot entry until after option parsing
827 - Fixed an argument-passing bug in fakeroot
828 - Modified pacman's behaviour wrt provides -- it now allows
829 multiple packages to be installed, even if they provide the
830 same thing (they were treated as conflicts before)
831 2.6 - Added group handling, so one can run 'pacman -S kde' and
832 install all files from the KDE group
833 - Fixed a duplication bug in cascade package removal
834 - Added support for virtual provisions with "provides" tags
835 - When conflicts are encountered, pacman now offers the chance
836 to remove the conflicting packages (provides or literals)
837 - Added support for renamed/combined packages with a "replaces"
838 tag
839 - Added --nostrip option to makepkg
840 - Improved --search to list all packages from all repos when
841 a search term is omitted
842 - Added logging support through syslog()
843 - Added fakeroot support to makepkg (RomanK)
844 - Added MD5sum generation/validation to makepkg (RomanK)
845 - Fixed a progress bar bug (Aurelien Foret)
846 - Sorted makepkg's .FILELISTs (Aurelien Foret)
847 - Targets are now re-ordered w.r.t. dependencies when
848 using -A/-U
849 - Modified --search to work when called as -Sys
850 - Modified abs to use ABS_ROOT from /etc/abs/abs.conf (Aurelien)
851 - Other bug fixes
852 2.5.1 - Minor bug fixes
853 2.5 - Added an URL tag to package info
854 - Sped up package load times by about 500% by introducing
855 a .FILELIST into the package
856 - Renamed the install scriptlet from ._install to .INSTALL
857 - Added patch from Aurlien Foret:
858 - Better lock handling (RW and RO)
859 - Sorted package order in -Qi's dependency lists
860 - Added a DBPath option to pacman.conf
861 - Fixed memory leaks
862 - Added the --nodeps option to -S
863 2.4.1 - Fixed a bug in makepkg's option parsing
864 2.4 - Added getopt-style options to makeworld
865 - Added -w <destdir> to makepkg
866 - makeworld now properly handles packages with --builddeps
867 - Added patches from Aurelien Foret:
868 - Cascading package removals. -Rc will remove a package and
869 all packages that require it
870 - Support for getopt-style options in makepkg
871 - the REQUIREDBY field is now updated when a package is
872 removed with --nodeps, then re-installed.
873 - Avoids duplicate dependency checks with sync
874 - Added a "NoPassiveFtp" option in pacman.conf
875 - Improvements to the --query listings
876 2.3.2 - Added patches from Aurelien Foret:
877 - FTP resume feature
878 - removed the hit-^C-and-delete-the-downloading-file safety
879 - IgnorePkg option in pacman.conf
880 - FTPAGENT setting in makepkg.conf
881 - Added --cleancache option to makepkg
882 2.3.1 - Fixed the progress bar overflow
883 - Pacman does not ask "Are you sure" when you use --downloadonly
884 - Switched up a couple makepkg options to be more consistent
885 with pacman's options
886 - If you ^C out of a file download, the package will now be
887 removed from the cache directory
888 2.3 - The beginnings of source-side dependency resolution, makepkg
889 can now either A) download/install missing deps with pacman
890 -S; or B) find missing deps in the /usr/abs tree and
891 build/install them.
892 - Added a --nodeps option to makepkg
893 - Improved the --search output
894 2.2 - More bugfixes
895 - Added --downloadonly switch to --sync
896 2.1 - Lots of bugfixes
897 - Added support for multiple repositories
898 - Improved the config file layout
899 - Improved dependency resolution and sorting
900 2.0 - Added dependency functionality
901 - Completely new database format, similar to FreeBSD
902 - Better internal data structures
903 - Merged pacsync functionality into pacman
904 - Now uses libftp for all file retrieval (currently only ftp)
905 - Automatic dependency resolution, a la apt-get
906 - Moved config stuff from /etc/pacsync.conf to /etc/pacman.conf
907 - Much better backup file handling, now uses md5 hashes a la rpm
908 1.23 - Added install/upgrade/remove scripting control
909 1.22 - Some manpage typo fixes
910 - Added --root switch to pacsync
911 - Added --help and ability to specify a PKGBUILD to makepkg
912 - Switched default downloader to snarf
913 1.21 - Added better backup control -- upgrade/add and remove
914 do different things with the -n switch
915 1.2 - Added wildcard handling
916 - Added man pages for makepkg and pacsync
917 - Added the pacsync utility for remote file fetching/sync
918 1.1 - Fixed some string-handling bugs
919 - Added better handling of configuration files and the like.
920 If "file" is about to be removed, but it is designated to
921 backed up, then it will be copied to "file.save"
922 - Changed db_find_conflicts() to ignore directories
923 1.0 - Initial Release
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