[pacman-dev] [PATCH] API changes between 3.3 and 3.4

[Xavier Chantry]

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Nagy Gabor <ngaba at bibl.u-szeged.hu> wrote:
> Updates for README file.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nagy Gabor <ngaba at bibl.u-szeged.hu>
> ---
>  README |   33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/README b/README
> index b9eb399..1276eaa 100644
> --- a/README
> +++ b/README
> @@ -295,3 +295,36 @@ API CHANGES BETWEEN 3.2 AND 3.3
>  - error codes:
>     PM_ERR_SERVER_NONE, PM_ERR_TRANS_NOT_LOCKED, PM_ERR_PKG_IGNORED and
>     PM_ERR_LIBFETCH
> +
> +
> +API CHANGES BETWEEN 3.3 AND 3.4
> +===============================
> +
> +[REMOVED]
> +- pmtranstype_t struct (transaction type), alpm_trans_get_type()
> +- alpm_option_get_nopassiveftp(), alpm_option_set_nopassiveftp()
> +
> +[CHANGED]
> +- interface for target loading:
> +  - alpm_trans_addtarget() and alpm_trans_sysupgrade() were removed
> +  - alpm_sync_target() and alpm_sync_dbtarget() can be used to add a sync target
> +  - alpm_sync_sysupgrade() can be used to add outdated packages (for sysupgrade)
> +  - alpm_add_target() can be used to add an add/upgrade target
> +  - alpm_remove_target() can be used to add a remove target
> +- interface for target listing:
> +  - alpm_trans_get_pkgs() was removed
> +  - alpm_pkg_get_removes() was removed
> +  - alpm_trans_get_add() can be used to list add/upgrade/sync targets
> +  - alpm_trans_get_remove() can be used to list to-be-removed packages
> +- the type parameter of alpm_trans_init() was removed
> +- the type of alpm_db_fetch callback function: mtimeold and mtimenew parameters
> +  were replaced by force parameter
> +- unsigned short -> int changes for Boolean variables
> +
> +[ADDED]
> +- alpm_db_set_pkgreason()
> +- alpm_option_get_arch(), alpm_option_set_arch()
> +- alpm_option_get_usedelta()
> +- alpm_pkg_unused_deltas()
> +- alpm_conflict_get_reason()
> +- error code: PM_ERR_PKG_INVALID_ARCH
> --
> 1.7.1
>

Thanks a lot for doing that !
With the number of changes there is in 3.4, I felt it was important to
do that, so that libalpm users can at least have a quick overview of
what changed.