28 Jun
2007
28 Jun
'07
8:34 a.m.
Dan McGee wrote: > I pulled in Andrew's bsdtar branch today, and Xavier's ready_to_pull > branch, so those changes have all been pushed to the al.org tree. > Thanks guys! > > Other things: > 1. For you guys that I am pulling GIT repos from, can you do me a > favor? I added some more descriptive tags to the GIT repo (v3.0.0) > instead of the older uglier CVS tags (R_3_0_0). If you wouldn't mind > deleting those old tags in your pushed repo, I would appreciate it so > I don't keep pulling them in. By default GIT does not push tags, but > it does pull them. I got rid of them on my public repo and the al.org > tree; if you do the same that would be awesome. For those wondering how to remove tags from remote repos... remove tags: git push <repo url> :tags/<tag name> remove branches: git push <repo url> :heads/<branch name> > 2. What is on people's minds for a 3.1 release? I don't think its too > early to start at least getting some thoughts on paper, and see what > kind of timeframe we can make for ourselves. I know at least the > following things are true- I've made a lot of changes recently and > they need some refinement, to say the least. In addition, we seem to > have a lot of outstanding libarchive issues that we should take a look > at and ensure are fixed. If we need to extend the pactest framework to > be able to test this better, then we should do that. Testing, testing, testing... :) Pre 3.1 todos: - Sort gettext for scripts, I think src/pacman/po should me moved into the main directory so we can share the translations with both pacman and the scripts. - Make sure all copyrights have been updated for 2007. - Update man pages Bugs I think we should aim to close for 3.1... FS#7484 - pacman clobbers directory symlinks (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7484) FS#7495 - pacman does not check dependencies in all cases http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7495 FS#7406 - NREP: umask is followed, even if nonsensical http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7406 FS#7133 - DB scanning doesn't continue when a broken entry is found http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7133 The original bug has been fixed but see Dan's last comment for another similar bug. FS#3492 - pacman -U doesnt honour 'provides' or 'replaces' http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/3492 FS#7415 - Pacman doesn't check for deps when installing a group http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7415 FS#7117 - Internal pacman error: Segmentation fault http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7117 FS#7247 - Pacman Segmentation Fault http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7247 FS#7525 - Permissions of .pacnew files http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7525 FS#7321 - pacman -Qcp does not display ChangeLog http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7321 FS#7182 - pacman -Q --changelog works only as root http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7182 FS#7155 - pacman failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package) http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7155 FS#6804 - pacman3: irrelevant output with -Sup http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/6804 FS#6437 - Pacman 3 progress bar- issue with UTF-8 chars http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/6437 Fixed/Need Testing ================== FS#7229 - pacman installs packages in wrong order http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7229 FS#7137 - Update/pacman3 kills rc.conf http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7137 I think this is fixed now. FS#6057 - impossible to remove package+dependencies, when it is required http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/6057 FS#7240 - no /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ & /tmp fallback for pacman is unusable http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7240 FS#2898 - Using pacman for certain things in parallel http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/2898 FS#6818 - unable to create empty package http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/6818 Other Bugs: =========== FS#7416 - dependencies are not always resolved properly http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7416 This isn't a pacman bug it's an arch repo bug.