[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Pacman 4.0.0 RC1 "release"

[Bjørn Øivind Bjørnsen]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> > For the daring, pick your poison (by architecture):
> >
> > * pacman -U
> http://dev.archlinux.org/~dan/pacman-4.0.0rc1-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
> > * pacman -U
> http://dev.archlinux.org/~dan/pacman-4.0.0rc1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
> >
> > Allan, Dave, and I (and probably a few others) run pacman-git on most
> > of our systems with no problems, so their should be no real shockers
> > or problems if you give this a spin. There are no database upgrades or
> > changes this time so downgrading later should work fine if truly
> > necessary.
> >
> > What we're looking for feedback on:
> >
> > * any build failures in makepkg you may see
> > * if you manage a custom repo, how does repo-add work for you
> > * does pacman behave as it did before
> > * if you want to sign packages, does the functionality in makepkg and
> > the documentation make sense
> > * same for signing repos- does it work for you
> >
> > What we know isn't there yet:
> > * translations
> > * a developer keyring (or keyring package)- if you delve into this,
> > you will need to look at pacman-key for now
> > * great error messages on verification failure, or ability to import
> > keys on the fly if it is unknown
> >
> > Note that we'd love testing even if you don't plan on touching any of
> > the new signing stuff- there were 500+ commits worth of changes in
> > this release, including a switch to curl as the download library, so
> > anything out of the ordinary should be reported. Please choose -git as
> > the version in the bugtracker if you do it that way, otherwise email
> > pacman-dev.
> >
> > Happy testing!
>
> Darn it- forgot to link to this if you want to see the glorious changelog:
> http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2011-August/014039.html
>

Being daring is fun.
I got some rather amusing results on my work machine with this release,
please see FS #25527 :)
I also observed that pacman failed to remove the lock file when killed by
^C, I'll file a bug-report on this if I manage to reproduce it.
Regards,
Bjørn Øivind