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

[pacman-dev] Time for changes
by Aaron Griffin 08 Oct '06

08 Oct '06

Ok, I think it's about time I picked up pacman developement, seeing as we really have no one else doing it. I've been busy, so I was really hoping someone else would volunteer, but what the hell. If you frugalware guys could send me a full diff (here or offlist) of your repo compared to the trunk, that'd be great. I don't like applying patches without verifying them, so I'm going to step through each hunk (this is why I originally requested them as the seperate patches sent to the ML, but I can deal with it either way). One thing i plan on doing right off the bat: I want to enable a side-by-side install with the current pacman, so that we can get some real testing by those (like me) who don't want to overwrite the stable pacman. This is just informational, but it shouldn't affect the frugalware guys. To the furgalware team: you have more experience with this new pacman that I do... could you give me a brief "what's changed" - functionality wise. I mean, when actually using pacman3, what is done differently? What future directions are we going for? I'd like to get this stable as soon as possible, but once that's done, I have a handful of nifty features I wanted to add (those on the dev list: I want to add filesystem hooks first, then some more advanced output logging). There are also some potential changes to gensync and friends, depending on what direction we go with some svn changes... but that's off topic. Anyway, let me know. Aaron Griffin - phrakture -

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[pacman-dev] [PATCH] support for mtime checking @ http database download
by Tino Reichardt 25 Sep '06

25 Sep '06

Hello list, I have done a small patch, which adds mtime checking for the database download on http archives... overview: - one new function called HttpGetMod() in ftplib.c - some new if's @ pacsync.c I think there may be a need for it ;) -- regards, TR

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[pacman-dev] [PATCH] yesno(), cb_trans_evt(): print questions and events to stderr
by VMiklos 16 Sep '06

16 Sep '06

hi http://darcs.frugalware.org/darcsweb/darcsweb.cgi?r=pacman;a=commitdiff;h=2… pacman's man says: -p --print-uris Print out URIs for each package that will be installed, including any dependencies that have yet to be installed. These can be piped to a file and downloaded at a later time, using a program like wget. so in yesno() and cb_trans_evt() we should print our additional messages to stderr udv / greetings, VMiklos -- Developer of Frugalware Linux, to make things frugal - http://frugalware.org

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[pacman-dev] The state of Pacman 3, again...
by Roman Kyrylych 12 Sep '06

12 Sep '06

Hi all! I don't know is it OK for me to ask such question here, but where is Aurelien Foret? And who is going to continue Pacman 3 development? I know that phracture had such plans, but IIRC he is currently busy. IIRC dsa also was going to take a look at Pacman code. I didn't hear anything from Judd Vinet recently too. And AFAIK most other developers have vacations or exams. In the last newsletter there was a line about recruiting new developers, so maybe some of them will take a look at Pacman? VMiklos is sending patches from Frugalware's branch but there are nobody in Arch team who applies them. This is sad. I hope the situation will change in the next few months. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[pacman-dev] [PATCH] db_search() -> alpm_db_search()
by VMiklos 06 Sep '06

06 Sep '06

hi this 2 patches move pacman's db_search() to libalpm since most frontends would have some search functionality http://darcs.frugalware.org/darcsweb/darcsweb.cgi?r=pacman;a=commitdiff;h=2… http://darcs.frugalware.org/darcsweb/darcsweb.cgi?r=pacman;a=commitdiff;h=2… ps: everybody on vacation? :) udv / greetings, VMiklos -- Developer of Frugalware Linux, to make things frugal - http://frugalware.org

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[pacman-dev] [PATCH] move the holdpkg feature to libalpm
by VMiklos 03 Sep '06

03 Sep '06

hi http://darcs.frugalware.org/darcsweb/darcsweb.cgi?r=pacman;a=commitdiff;h=2… i think this is a musthave, and if all the frontends support it, then it's better to have it in the library udv / greetings, VMiklos -- Developer of Frugalware Linux, to make things frugal - http://frugalware.org

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