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. 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. Thanks to everyone that has been contributing to pacman, we definitely appreciate it, and you can see the wide variety of authors that are now in the GIT history. Hopefully some of you will venture into the big bad libalpm after dipping your toes in makepkg changes. It is what I did. :) -Dan