[pacman-dev] [PATCH] NEWS update for pacman-3.4
Allan McRae
allan at archlinux.org
Thu Jun 3 01:36:06 EDT 2010
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org>
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NEWS | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 743028c..2fdada6 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,42 @@
VERSION DESCRIPTION
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+3.4.0 - new "Architecture" option that will restrict pacman to
+ installing only packages from the given architecture. Can be
+ set to "auto" in which case the output of "uname -m" is used
+ - use "$arch" when specifing a mirror url to automatically
+ select the correct architecture
+ - Installing packages with -U can handle installing
+ dependencies, confict resolution and replacing packages
+ - can upgrage the system and install a new package using
+ "pacman -Syu <pkg>"
+ - new -D/--database operation for modifying package install
+ reasons
+ - new --print and --print-format options to output information
+ in suitable format for wrapper scripts
+ - only extract new entries when updating a repo database
+ - show "Required by" in -Sii output
+ - -U and -R options always ask for confirmation
+ - allow -Qo to perform a functional 'which'
+ - cache cleaning cleans all directories, not just first
+ - cleanupdelta: new utility to help remove unused deltas from
+ a repo database
+ - repo-add: handle removing the final package from a repo
+ - rankmirrors: rewrite using bash
+ - vercmp: does not link to libalpm to prevent upgrade issues
+ - makepkg:
+ - automatically aborts of any errors during packaging
+ - changelogs are now included via the "changelog" variable
+ - can override pkgver, pkgrel and arch in split packages
+ - repackaging without a package() function is depricated
+ - stricter syntax checking for backup and optdepends entries
+ - file stripping options are configurable
+ - New --pkg flag to allow building specific package(s) from
+ split PKGBUILDs.
+ - build() function is now optional
+ - warns about reference to the build root in a package
+ - configure source package destination with SRCPKGDEST
+ - major internal refactor of handling tests ("[" to "[[")
+ - contrib/pactree: print reverse dependency tree
3.3.3 - correctly check the return code from opendir()
- fix possible infinite loop in alpm_list_remove()
- makepkg:
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1.7.1
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