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