January 2006 - Pacman-dev - lists.archlinux.org

[pacman-dev] release roadmap?
by VMiklos 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

hi all just wanted to suggest let's make a list of bugs that blocks us to release a public rc (and then the first stable) release of pacman3 we have several ideas, for example replacing the ugly chroot system() call, adding gettext support, etc, but these features were not in pacman2, and i think they're not "musthave" so what are the points from TODO that must be solved before a release? i think the only one is the lack of handling of package conflicts during packages replacement, and maybe the manpages of public funtions (via doxygen) udv / greetings, VMiklos -- Developer of Frugalware Linux, to make things frugal - http://frugalware.org

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[pacman-dev] download code in pacman
by VMiklos 05 Feb '06

05 Feb '06

hi is there any reason why the download code is in pacman and not in the library? yes, i know, this way the frontends are not forced to use libftp, for example they can use curl, if you want. but i think this is not the same situation as the list handling functions / GList (ie. at a gtk frontend) imho placing the old download code in pacman, and not in the library is a disadvantage, and not an advantage or we could allow to use NULL as the download cb function pointer, and then use the our own download code opinions? if i would implement this then theoratically you wouldn't have objections? udv / greetings, VMiklos -- Developer of Frugalware Linux, to make things frugal - http://frugalware.org

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[pacman-dev] [PATCH] libalpm: add the main manpage
by VMiklos 01 Feb '06

01 Feb '06

hi http://frugalware.org/~vmiklos/patches/libpacman-proposed/libalpm_manpage.d… with this patch i think we can say we have an initial api documentation. later we can write a tutorial-like manpage, too, but for the first pacman3 release i think this should be enough comments? udv / greetings, VMiklos -- Developer of Frugalware Linux, to make things frugal - http://frugalware.org

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[pacman-dev] [PATCH] libalpm: added @brief comments to public functions
by VMiklos 01 Feb '06

01 Feb '06

hi http://darcs.frugalware.org/darcsweb/darcsweb.cgi?r=pacman;a=plain_commitdi…; without these comments manpages are really ugly udv / greetings, VMiklos -- Developer of Frugalware Linux, to make things frugal - http://frugalware.org

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[pacman-dev] [PATCH] change the cwd from / to config->root while running scriplets
by VMiklos 31 Jan '06

31 Jan '06

http://frugalware.org/~vmiklos/patches/libpacman-proposed/20051222/installf… several scriptlet uses just usr/lib instead of /usr/lib and this is needed for them. also this was an incompatibility with pacman2 udv / greetings, VMiklos -- Developer of Frugalware Linux, to make things frugal - http://frugalware.org

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[pacman-dev] [PATCH] testsuite
by VMiklos 31 Jan '06

31 Jan '06

hi http://darcs.frugalware.org/darcsweb/darcsweb.cgi?r=pacman;a=plain_commitdi…; currently only 3 tests, for fakeroot itself, add and remove do you like this idea? imho this is a very efficent way to prevent pacman regressions udv / greetings, VMiklos -- Developer of Frugalware Linux, to make things frugal - http://frugalware.org

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[pacman-dev] [PATCH] move db lock/unlock to the transaction functions
by VMiklos 31 Jan '06

31 Jan '06

hi http://frugalware.org/~vmiklos/patches/libpacman-proposed/lock_move.diff $ sudo touch /tmp/pacman.lck $ sudo pacman -Sg error: failed to initilize alpm library (unable to lock database) error: library not initialized is this normal? of course not we should only lock the database when a transaction begins, and we should unlock the database as soon as the transaction ends also move the PM_LOCK define to the public header so that fronends can print out a more usable error message (ie. like pacman2 did) udv / greetings, VMiklos -- Developer of Frugalware Linux, to make things frugal - http://frugalware.org

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[pacman-dev] [PATCH] makeworld: sudo support
by VMiklos 28 Jan '06

28 Jan '06

hi http://frugalware.org/~vmiklos/patches/libpacman-proposed/makeworld_sudo.di… udv / greetings, VMiklos -- Developer of Frugalware Linux, to make things frugal - http://frugalware.org

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[pacman-dev] [PATCH] makepkg: use sudo for -i if necessary & available
by VMiklos 28 Jan '06

28 Jan '06

hi http://frugalware.org/~vmiklos/patches/libpacman-proposed/makepkg_i_sudo.di… udv / greetings, VMiklos -- Developer of Frugalware Linux, to make things frugal - http://frugalware.org

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[pacman-dev] [PATCH] document package, group, sync and transaction functions
by VMiklos 26 Jan '06

26 Jan '06

hi http://frugalware.org/~vmiklos/patches/libpacman-proposed/doc2.diff part 2 of (hopefully) 3 udv / greetings, VMiklos -- Developer of Frugalware Linux, to make things frugal - http://frugalware.org

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