[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Update NEWS for pacman-3.5 release

[Allan McRae]

On 01/03/11 14:21, Allan McRae wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae<allan at archlinux.org>
> ---
>   NEWS |   47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   1 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index 4f5ce11..032be53 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -1,5 +1,52 @@
>   VERSION         DESCRIPTION
>   -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> +3.5.0         - 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+
> +              - package versions can have an 'epoch' value defined that will
> +                overrule any version comparison
> +                - this replaces the use of the "force" option in allowing for
> +                  package updates with versions that do not conform to the
> +                  default version comparison operations
> +                - package versions have the format [epoch:]pkgver-pkgrel
> +              - 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 interactive selection for groups/provides
> +                (FS#19704, FS#19853)
> +              - more fine grained control of ignorine dependency resolution

Typo fixed on my working branch.

> +                - -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
> +              - 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
> +                    command-line
> +                - extract any file bsdtar recognizes
> +                - STRIP_DIRS has been removed in favor of stripping all
> +                  recognized files
> +                - improve $srcdir/$pkgdir check to reduce false positives
> +                - $pkgname can be used in split package() functions  (FS#22174)
> +                - added '!buildflags' option to allow unsetting of CFLAGS,
> +                  CXXFLAGS and LDFLAGS
> +              - repo-add:
> +                - added -f/--files to create files database (FS#11302)
> +              - pactree: rewritten in C using libalpm
>   3.4.3         - fix attempted double remove of all files issue during upgrades
>                 - respect IgnorePkg/IgnoreGroup for group members (FS#19854)
>                 - back out epoch changes; 3.5.X will handle them differently