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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c6b9e42d --- /dev/null +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -0,0 +1,268 @@ +VERSION DESCRIPTION +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +2.9.5 - bugfix: missing files after re-ordering packages wrt + deps with --upgrade + - added "Repository" line to -Si output + - patch from Tommi Rantala to fix trim() behaviour with + empty or whitespace-only strings + - fixed removal order when using -Rc or -Rs +2.9.4 - fixed a bug that was introduced from another bugfix :-/ +2.9.3 - fixed a couple manpage typos + - added --ignore to -S operations, works just like IgnorePkg + - respect IgnorePkg list when pulling in dependencies + - numerous memleak fixes + - some code changes to improve customizability/branding + - Makefile fix for nonstandard lib search paths (Kevin Piche) + - fixed the leftover directories in /tmp + - speed improvement patches from Tommi Rantala +2.9.2 - bugfix for 2.9.1 +2.9.1 - --refresh now only downloads fresh packages lists if they've + been updated (currently only works with FTP) +2.9 - Improved -Rs functionality -- pacman now tracks why a package + is installed: explicitly, or as a dependency for another + package. -Rs will only remove dependencies that were not + explicitly installed. + - Added compressed package size to sync DBs -- shows the total + size of packages before downloading + - Patch from Tommi Rantala: + - Allow --info and --list together in queries + - Patch from Kevin Piche: + - Use list_add_sorted() with -Sg + - Patch from Hegedus Marton Csaba: + - Better manpage compression + - Added checks for additional hyphens in package versions + - mktemp was failing if %pmo_root%/tmp was missing -- fixed +2.8.4 - Added updatesync script from Jason Chu + - Changed the pacman binary to be dynamically linked + - Included a pacman.static binary as well + - Added fakeroot checks when seeing if we're root + - Fixed makepkg to use 'tail -n 1' instead of 'tail -1' + - Added patch from Kevin Piche: + - Cleanup db_loadpkgs(), add list_add_sorted() + - Fixed a memory leak in db_find_conflicts() +2.8.3 - Fixed a little makepkg bug with bash 3.0 + - Fixed resolvedeps to always prefer literals over provisios + - Added --config option to specify an alternate config file + - Added "Include" directive to include repositories from + config files (inspired by Michael Baehr's patch) + - Added patch from Jason Chu: + - Even smarter file-conflict checking +2.8.2 - Fixed a segfault bug in file-conflict checks + - Made --noconfirm actually work. Go me. +2.8.1 - Added a HoldPkg option in pacman.conf, for the more + exploratory users who run things like "pacman -R pacman". It + will ask for confirmation before removing any packages listed + in the HoldPkg list + - Added a --noconfirm switch for use with script automation + - Modified dependency resolution to prefer packages explicitly + requested on the cmdline instead of those pulled in by + resolvedeps(). Example, if neither "xorg" nor "xfree86" is + installed and "blackbox xfree86" is requested, "xfree86" will + be used instead of "xorg" + - Added patch from Jason Chu: + - Smarter file-conflict checking with symlinked paths and + with files that move from one package to another +2.8 - Bugfixes: + - #861: file:/// urls not handled properly with XferCommand + - #1003: set umask before scriptlet calls + - #1027: download problems with http urls using -U/-A + - #1044: segfaults when using -Rs + - #863: "missing post_remove" errors with some packages + - #875: detect low disk space properly + - #986: makepkg -e doesn't validate files + - #1010: add -j option to makepkg + - #1028: make pacman -Sp runnable as non-root + - added pre_install and pre_upgrade scriptlet support + - added an "Architecture" field in the package meta-data + - added patch from Aurelien Foret which improves performance + adding or removing packages + - added implementation of GNU's strverscmp function for better + portability + - added explicit unlink() calls when --force is used, which + prevents those nasty "Text file busy" errors when you + force-upgrade something like pacman or glibc. +2.7.9 - added the "force" option to packages, so --sysupgrade can + downgrade packages when it needs to +2.7.8 - added post_remove scriptlet support + - added -Qs option (bug #854) + - a provisio does not imply conflict, to make a provisio target + conflict with anything else that provides the same thing, you + can now do this by specifying the provisio target as both a + provides and a conflict, eg: + conflicts=('x-server') + provides=('x-server') + - cleaned up the download progress bar a bit + - added %o parameter to XferCommand so wget can resume properly + - fixed a segfault in downloadfiles() (bug #787) + - patches from Oliver Burnett-Hall + - gensync uses a better temp dir (bug #774) + - PKGDEST can be set in makepkg.conf (bug #783) + - patches from Aurelien Foret + - segfault fix, couple memory leaks + - more sanity checks in "provides" searches + - fixed a little display bug in the progress bar + - made -Qip look like -Qi + - -Sc now removes OLD packages from cache, use -Scc for all +2.7.7 - added an XferCommand directive that will make pacman use an + external download utility like wget + - added a license field to package meta-data + - add url support to -A and -U operations (download packages) + - -Ss now searches thru provides fields + - added --dbonly option to -R +2.7.6 - added --print-uris option + - fixed an http download bug (bug #667) + - fixed a segfault related to replaces/conflicts handling +2.7.5 - "replaces" packages were ignoring IgnorePkg in pacman.conf + - fixed another bug in conflict handling + - found an out-dated reference to /usr/abs, fixed + - added a --recursive option for package removal, which removes + all deps of a target that aren't required by other packages +2.7.4 - fixed a bug in conflict handling, where installing a + conflicting package would fail even if the new package + "provided" it + - if pacman sees a newer version of itself during an upgrade, + it will ask to install itself first, then be re-run to upgrade + the other packages. + - You can now use the --info option with --sync to display an + uninstalled package's dependency info. + - Added a sane umask before db writes + - buffer overflow fix (bug #442) +2.7.3 - makepkg not longer strips files with .exe or .dll extensions + - Added Aurelien's patch: + - proxy support (no authentication yet) + - HTTP/1.1 support + - an improved progress bar with transfer rates and ETA + - cleaned up warning output a bit +2.7.2 - Supressed "No such file" messages during stripping + - Removed extra newlines in /var/log/pacman.log + - Added a --noextract option to makepkg to skip source extraction +2.7.1 - Fixed a couple obscure segfaults + - LogFiles were logging incorrect dates - fixed + - Cleaned up md5sum output in makepkg -g + - Added (optional) colorized output messages to makepkg + - Renamed the "stable" repo to "release" in pacman.conf + - Renamed the "unofficial" repo to "extra" in pacman.conf +2.7 - Added build-time dependencies to makepkg (Jason Chu) + - Added md5sum integrity checking to packages in --sync + mode (Aurelien Foret) + - Memory leak fixes (Aurelien Foret) + - Added CARCH variable to makepkg.conf for use in PKGBUILDs + - Added LogFile option for direct-to-file logging + - Added -Qii handling to show modified config files + - Allow --sync targets to specify an explicit repository to + sync from (eg, pacman -S current/patch) +2.6.4 - Altered pacman_upgrade() to allow a package to replace itself +2.6.3 - A couple memory fixes in the new replaces code +2.6.2 - Fixed a memory cleanup bug + - Aurelien's patch: + - bug #159 implemented (for -S and -R) + - fixed a bug with pacman -Sg (pacman was browsing only one + db to get groups) + - fixed a bug with list_merge() + - fixed some MLK (in dumppkg() and with "-Qi --orphans") + - now "pacman -Sg" only displays groups (without content) + whereas "pacman -Sg target1 target2" displays groups + target1 and target2 with content +2.6.1 - Added http download support (Aurelien Foret) + - Improved makepkg's --builddeps behaviour when called via + makeworld + - makepkg's md5 validation now occurs before source extraction + - makepkg delays fakeroot entry until after option parsing + - Fixed an argument-passing bug in fakeroot + - Modified pacman's behaviour wrt provides -- it now allows + multiple packages to be installed, even if they provide the + same thing (they were treated as conflicts before) +2.6 - Added group handling, so one can run 'pacman -S kde' and + install all files from the KDE group + - Fixed a duplication bug in cascade package removal + - Added support for virtual provisions with "provides" tags + - When conflicts are encountered, pacman now offers the chance + to remove the conflicting packages (provides or literals) + - Added support for renamed/combined packages with a "replaces" + tag + - Added --nostrip option to makepkg + - Improved --search to list all packages from all repos when + a search term is omitted + - Added logging support through syslog() + - Added fakeroot support to makepkg (RomanK) + - Added MD5sum generation/validation to makepkg (RomanK) + - Fixed a progress bar bug (Aurelien Foret) + - Sorted makepkg's .FILELISTs (Aurelien Foret) + - Targets are now re-ordered w.r.t. dependencies when + using -A/-U + - Modified --search to work when called as -Sys + - Modified abs to use ABS_ROOT from /etc/abs/abs.conf (Aurelien) + - Other bug fixes +2.5.1 - Minor bug fixes +2.5 - Added an URL tag to package info + - Sped up package load times by about 500% by introducing + a .FILELIST into the package + - Renamed the install scriptlet from ._install to .INSTALL + - Added patch from Aurlien Foret: + - Better lock handling (RW and RO) + - Sorted package order in -Qi's dependency lists + - Added a DBPath option to pacman.conf + - Fixed memory leaks + - Added the --nodeps option to -S +2.4.1 - Fixed a bug in makepkg's option parsing +2.4 - Added getopt-style options to makeworld + - Added -w <destdir> to makepkg + - makeworld now properly handles packages with --builddeps + - Added patches from Aurelien Foret: + - Cascading package removals. -Rc will remove a package and + all packages that require it + - Support for getopt-style options in makepkg + - the REQUIREDBY field is now updated when a package is + removed with --nodeps, then re-installed. + - Avoids duplicate dependency checks with sync + - Added a "NoPassiveFtp" option in pacman.conf + - Improvements to the --query listings +2.3.2 - Added patches from Aurelien Foret: + - FTP resume feature + - removed the hit-^C-and-delete-the-downloading-file safety + - IgnorePkg option in pacman.conf + - FTPAGENT setting in makepkg.conf + - Added --cleancache option to makepkg +2.3.1 - Fixed the progress bar overflow + - Pacman does not ask "Are you sure" when you use --downloadonly + - Switched up a couple makepkg options to be more consistent + with pacman's options + - If you ^C out of a file download, the package will now be + removed from the cache directory +2.3 - The beginnings of source-side dependency resolution, makepkg + can now either A) download/install missing deps with pacman + -S; or B) find missing deps in the /usr/abs tree and + build/install them. + - Added a --nodeps option to makepkg + - Improved the --search output +2.2 - More bugfixes + - Added --downloadonly switch to --sync +2.1 - Lots of bugfixes + - Added support for multiple respositories + - Improved the config file layout + - Improved dependency resolution and sorting +2.0 - Added dependency functionality + - Completely new database format, similar to FreeBSD + - Better internal data structures + - Merged pacsync functionality into pacman + - Now uses libftp for all file retrieval (currently only ftp) + - Automatic dependency resolution, a la apt-get + - Moved config stuff from /etc/pacsync.conf to /etc/pacman.conf + - Much better backup file handling, now uses md5 hashes a la rpm +1.23 - Added install/upgrade/remove scripting control +1.22 - Some manpage typo fixes + - Added --root switch to pacsync + - Added --help and ability to specify a PKGBUILD to makepkg + - Switched default downloader to snarf +1.21 - Added better backup control -- upgrade/add and remove + do different things with the -n switch +1.2 - Added wildcard handling + - Added man pages for makepkg and pacsync + - Added the pacsync utility for remote file fetching/sync +1.1 - Fixed some string-handling bugs + - Added better handling of configuration files and the like. + If "file" is about to be removed, but it is designated to + backed up, then it will be copied to "file.save" + - Changed db_find_conflicts() to ignore directories +1.0 - Initial Release + |