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authorDan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>2007-12-18 20:24:40 -0600
committerDan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>2007-12-18 20:24:40 -0600
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Initial updates to NEWS file for 3.1.0 release
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
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VERSION DESCRIPTION
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+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)