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+VERSION DESCRIPTION
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ - fix for regex searches with -Ss (Miklos Vanja)
+2.9.7 - fixed the dupe listings of packages when dealing w/ groups
+ - patches from Miklos Vanja:
+ - add regexp search support for -Qs and -Ss
+ - fixed md5sums on x86_64
+ - add --sudosync to makepkg
+ - show syntax help if an invalid option is used
+ - added makepkg option to disable ccache support
+ - changed license field to operate as an array, not a string
+ - added more logic for file conflict checks - if one target
+ is a file and the other is a directory, then it's a conflict
+ - fixed the integrity check in pacman-optimize
+ - reverted NoUpgrade to old behaviour and instead, added the
+ NoExtract directive to pacman.conf, which prevents a file
+ from ever being extracted on to the system
+ eg, NoExtract = home/httpd/html/index.html
+2.9.6 - added a pacman-optimize script to try and defragment the DB
+ - modified NoUpgrade behaviour to avoid extracting files
+ that are missing from the filesystem -- this helps in
+ situations where the admin does not want the file there, eg,
+ remove index.html so index.php takes precedence
+ - fixed a bug where files would sometimes go missing if they
+ moved from one package to another
+ - add db_remove() which is responsible for clearing out stale
+ hash table entries when packages are removed
+ - added ccache support to makepkg
+ - patch from Aurelien Foret fixes a few memory leaks
+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
+