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