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