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