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@@ -1,5 +1,84 @@ VERSION DESCRIPTION ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +3.1.0 - paths are now specified as absolute paths (or defaulting to + under the specified root directory) + - all paths can be specified in pacman.conf or on command line + - updates to pacman clean operation- now cleans uninstalled + packages and old sync DBs + - remove all hardcoded paths and allow them to be set at + configure/build time + - single mirrorfile- pacman substitutes the repository name in + mirror file when $repo is found + - New config file options: ShowSize, TODO xxx + - all scripts have been gettext-ized and can be translated + - added testdb utility to check pacman DBs for common problems + - huge additions to pactest suite + - remove -F/--freshen operation + - add --ignoregroup option + - --ignore and --ignoregroup accept comma separated lists + - add --needed option for --sync + - massive optimization and speedup for --owns + - add -q/--quiet option for -Ss/-Sl and -Q? output + - add --asdeps option (install packages as reason: dependency) + - replace "Total Package Size" with "Total Download Size" + - fix -Q options to work on installed packages AND package files + - change -Q/--query options to act as filters and increase their + flexibility + - moved parseconfig from backend library to frontend + - install and build dates are localized + - optdepends support + - delta support + - versioned provisions support + - bash completion updates + - mirrorlist updates + - allow multiple pacman cache directories + - all manpages are now generated using Asciidoc + - clean up and refactoring of the ENTIRE codebase + - remove many useless #ifdefs + - split many too-long functions + - portability updates: compiles and passes tests on BSD and + Darwin (switching libdownload->libfetch) + - clean up build process + - use of static code analysis + - memory leak fixes all over the place + - fix overzealous use of macros + - entire codebase builds with -pedantic GCC option + - libalpm-specific changes: + - moved location of sync DBs into their own folder to thwart + deletion and remove naming limitations + - REQUIREDBY entries are no longer used in local DB but are + computed on the fly when needed + - ensure we export everything that should be public + - fix some const correctness issues + - add list tail ptr shortcut to make last element lookups O(1) + - database dates are stored as seconds from epoch + - removed SHA1 support + - drop in new MD5 library + - implement topological sorting for dependencies + - do case sensitive compare in parse_descfile (FS#8081) + - remove hardcoded architectures + - conflicts checking speedups and fixes + - move lockfile location to inside the DB + - remove gettext calls from DEBUG messages + - remove faulty diskspace checking + - move functions out of alpm.c to where they belong + - makepkg-specific changes: + - entire script has been functionalized + - only runs in fakeroot when necessary + - hard linked manpages are now compressed (FS#5392) + - built-in versionpkg support + - arch=('any') support + - clean up and prettify the output + - replace tar/cpio/unzip with bsdtar (FS#7485) + - add --ignorearch option (FS#7355) + - improved error handling + - remove --usesudo option, use it by default + - add --asroot option to discourage building as root + - add $srcdir and $pkgdir variables + - add source package creation option + - rankmirrors- allow reading from stdin (FS#8043) + - and many other small updates... + - switch to GIT for source code management 3.0.6 - config files updated to reflect current -> core change - fix symlink overwriting issue (#7484) - fix config parsing with tr_TR locale (#7235) |