[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Update NEWS file for 3.2.0 release

[Dan McGee]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 7:38 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org>
> ---
>  NEWS |   76 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 files changed, 76 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
Wowzers! You saved me a lot of time here, thanks. Looking quickly, I
might trim a few things out that aren't so newsworthy so it isn't
overwhelming to read, but great work.

> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index 5a9157a..6429695 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -1,5 +1,81 @@
>  VERSION         DESCRIPTION
>  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> +3.2.0
> +              - many patches to greatly reduce memory usage
> +              - added --asexplicit option
> +              - new remove option --unneeded
> +              - removed -A/--add option from pacman frontend
> +              - add -Rss option to remove all dependencies
> +              - removed useless -e/--dependsonly option
> +              - config options are now case sensitive
> +              - added CleanMethod option for variety in cache cleaning
> +              - handle multiple groups in -Ss and -Qs operations
> +              - allow -q/--quiet option with -o/--own option
> +              - removed hack for packages with unknown installed size
> +              - add SyncFirst option to pacman.conf
> +              - add --enable-git-version configure flag to identify
> +                developmental build version
> +              - do not duplicate packages in required by list
> +              - pacman.static is no longer built
> +              - improve yesno function which removes need to translate
> +                y/n all the time
> +              - all error messages use pm_fprintf
> +              - disable geteuid in cygwin
> +              - use off_t type for large file support
> +              - add vercmp test script
> +              - moved gensync and updatesync to contrib
> +              - rewrote pacsearch script in perl
> +              - paclist script to list installed packages from a repo
> +              - bacman script to make backup of package from filesystem
> +              - combined repo-add and repo-remove to one script
> +              - removed force option from repo-add
> +              - add quiet option to repo-add/repo-remove
> +              - update libtool version to 1.5.26
> +              - allow disabling of internal download with new configure
> +                flag --disable-internal-download
> +              - pactest can now check file permissions
> +              - libalpm-specific changes:
> +                - use dynamic string allocation in package structure
> +                - new functions for manipulating pmdepend_t objects
> +                - store replaces and force in local database
> +                - moved deptest functionality to backend
> +                - add alpm_checkdbconflicts function
> +                - cleanup of conflict resolution
> +                - removed synlist_free function
> +                - fix PM_ERR_CONFLICTING_DEPS handling
> +                - cleanup of pmsyncpkg_t
> +                - add alpm_sync_newversion function
> +                - removed alpm_sync_get_newversion function
> +                - pmgraph_t struct and functions get their own header file
> +                - cleanup of alpm_list code
> +                - refactor of download code
> +                - removed test_delta_md5sum and test_pkg_md5sum functions
> +                - add alpm_version function
> +                - avoid adding duplicate target names
> +                - add _alpm_archive_fgets function to read line-by-line from
> +                  an archive
> +                - read .PKGINFO directly from package file
> +                - remove error.h header file
> +                - refactor of _alpm_remove_prepare into two new functions
> +                - native support for both libdownload and libfetch
> +                - rework delta alogorithm
> +                - swap parameters of alpm_pkg_find for consistency with
> +                  other find functions
> +                - fix removing multiple items in dependency chain
> +              - makepkg-specific changes:
> +                - support for resuming source downloads
> +                - added zipman option
> +                - removed -b/--builddeps
> +                - various portability fixes for BSD/Mac OSX
> +                - check for valid options in PKGBUILD
> +                - add --allsource option
> +                - remove depreciated --usesudo option
> +                - handle spaces in build directory
> +                - made keeping docs the default option
> +                - use pacman version dep resolving
> +                - fix regression in library striping
> +                - make the strip paths configurable
> +              - MANY other bug fixes and small improvements
>  3.1.4         - various small code cleanups and fixes
>               - small documentation updates
>               - improvements to PKGBUILD.vim
> --
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