[pacman-dev] Draft pacman-3.5.0 NEWS

[Dan McGee]

On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 8:18 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> For comment.   I have not written the epoch stuff yet...
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> VERSION         DESCRIPTION
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 3.5.0         - database format changes
This line seems unnecessary with the next two there anyway.
>                - sync databases are read directly from the repo database
>                  tarball (FS#8586, FS#20233)
>                - local database "depends" files have been merged into the
>                  "desc" file
>                - pacman-db-upgrade script provided to update the local
>                  database format
>                - sync database extension is .db (without compression suffix)
>                  - requires repo-add from pacman-3.4+
>              - epoch
>                - TODO!!!
>
>              - disk space checking
>                - check available space before installing packages (FS#11639)
>                - enabled by the "CheckSpace" option in pacman.conf
>                - attempt to stop install if we hit an extraction issue
>                  (FS#7692, FS#22034)
>              - improved groups/providers selction dialog  (FS#19704,
> FS#19853)
"selection" (spelling), dialog doesn't sound right, maybe "interactive
selection"?

>              - more fine grained controll of ignorine dependency resolution
spelling...
>                - -Sd to ignore dependency versions only
>                - -Sdd to ignore all dependency information
>              - clean-up of --help output (FS#19526)
>              - CleanMethod for package cache cleaning can use both
>                KeepInstalled and KeepCurrent simultaneously
>              - various speed-ups:
>                - improved internal storage of the package cache
>                - faster pkgname/depends searches
>              - use openssl crypto functions if available
OpenSSL
>              - makepkg:
>                - add support for running testsuites in a check() function
>                  (FS#15145)
>                  - controlled by BUILDENV option 'check' in makepkg.conf
> which
>                    may be overridden by --check/--nocheck on the commandline
>                - extract any file bsdtar recognizes
>                - STRIP_DIRS has been removed in favour of stripping all
>                  recognized files
I have the spelling language set to en_us, so favor vs. favour here,
but not a big deal :P

>                - improve $srcdir/$pkgdir check to reduce false positives
>                - $pkgname can be used in split package() functions
> (FS#22174)
>                - added '!buildflags' option to allow unsetting
> CFLAGS/LDFLAGS/etc
>              - repo-add:
>                - added -f/--files to create files database (FS#11302)
>              - pactree: rewritten in C using libalpm
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