[pacman-dev] additions to NEWS file

Aaron Griffin aaronmgriffin at gmail.com
Fri Feb 16 11:14:10 EST 2007


On 2/16/07, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just a quick list of what's missing from NEWS.
> Feel free to change wording to more appropriate where needed.
>
> pacman:
> - added -arch suffix to package tarballs
> - the speed of operations with lists is greatly improved
> - proxy support (right after "- switch to usage of libdownload and
> libarchive" line)
> - pacman now asks confirmation before cleaning cache
> - fixes for version checking
> - pacman now honours
>
> makepkg:
> - installed dependencies are removed when build fails too
> - -g and -o don't require -f and don't do deps check now
> - possibility to select paths to strip from info/docs
>
> - added testing repo to abs
>
> Sorry for not sending changes as a patch, I'm at work on windoze now.


I'm going to use this to add on to, if I remember any important
user-visible changes (note: user-visible is important, IMO).  You all
feel free to do the same.

Right now, I can't think of anything though.




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