On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 4:58 AM, Allan McRae
This is a draft for the README file update for pacman-3.5.
I have flagged two areas that I am not particularly clear at what happened. I would be great if the people involved in those changes could make the appropriate adjustments.
I am afraid that would be me.
## HELP!!! - these changes... -int alpm_sync_target(char *target); -int alpm_sync_dbtarget(char *db, char *target); -int alpm_add_target(char *target); -int alpm_remove_target(char *target); +int alpm_add_pkg(pmpkg_t *pkg); +int alpm_remove_pkg(pmpkg_t *pkg);
- the interface to add/remove targets was changed to take pmpkg_t rather than char * which was ambiguous. alpm_sync_target(char *target) and alpm_sync_dbtarget(char *db, char *target) are replaced by alpm_add_pkg(pmpkg_t *pkg). Packages can come from alpm_db_get_pkg (for normal targets), alpm_find_dbs_satisfier (for versioned provisions) or alpm_find_grp_pkgs (for groups). alpm_add_target(char *target) is replaced by alpm_pkg_load + alpm_add_pkg. alpm_remove_target is replaced by alpm_remove_pkg(pmpkg_t *pkg), with packages coming from alpm_db_get_pkg(db_local, target) or alpm_db_readgrp(db_local, target) + alpm_grp_get_pkgs(grp).
## HELP!!! - alpm_deptest() is replaced by the more flexibile alpm_find_satisfier() -int alpm_depcmp(pmpkg_t *pkg, pmdepend_t *dep); alpm_list_t *alpm_checkdeps(alpm_list_t *pkglist, int reversedeps, alpm_list_t *remove, alpm_list_t *upgrade); -alpm_list_t *alpm_deptest(pmdb_t *db, alpm_list_t *targets); +pmpkg_t *alpm_find_satisfier(alpm_list_t *pkgs, const char *depstring); +pmpkg_t *alpm_find_dbs_satisfier(alpm_list_t *dbs, const char *depstring);
- alpm_deptest() is replaced by the more flexible alpm_find_satisfier() - alpm_depcmp(pmpkg_t *pkg, pmdepend_t *dep) was removed because the low levels function dealing with pmdepend_t (splitdep and depfree come to mind) are not exposed, which makes depcmp useless to a frontend. (I mentioned alpm_find_dbs_satisfier above in the target change)