[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Update NEWS for pacman-5.0
Doug Newgard
scimmia at archlinux.info
Thu Dec 31 15:49:45 UTC 2015
On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 20:18:30 +1000
Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org>
> ---
> NEWS | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 63 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index a4d3dba..e2ae89b 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -1,8 +1,69 @@
> VERSION DESCRIPTION
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -5.0.0 - pacman can check the validity of the local and sync databases
> +5.0.0 - pacman can run hooks pre- and post-transaction. See the
> + alpm-hooks(5) man page for details and an example hook (FS#2985)
> + - pacman can now sync and read .files databases (-Fy) and do basic
> + searching for files in sync repos (-Fs, -Fo) (FS#23787)
> + - pacman can check the validity of the local and sync databases
> (-Dk and -Dkk respectively). This replaces the 'testdb'
> - software
> + software (FS#42444)
> + - the package description output (-Si ,-Qi) is now correctly
> + aligned regardless of locale (FS#43983, FS#45997)
> + - ensure internal package version matches database version after
> + downloading (FS#45687)
> + - improved signal handling and lock file removal (FS#45995,
> + FS#46375, FS#47011)
> + - print more information when encountering dependency errors
> + - fix conflict with CheckSpace and NoExtract (FS#47470)
^ this issue didn't exist in pacman 4.2, so it doesn't need to be listed here.
> + - improved configuration parsing with a new ini parser
> + - handle a symlink to a directory being replaced by a directory
> + - The 'pkgbase' variable is now recorded in the local package db
> + - Remove support for ".pacorig" files. Instead, packages files
> + are extracted as a ".pacnew" and the original stays in place
> + - prevent install scriptlets using stdin for user interaction
> + - provides are considered when displaying optdepends install
> + status (FS#36412)
> + - always update corrupt database whether or not a newer version
> + is found on the remote server
> + - fix build issues when libarchive was in a non-standard location
> + - Many issues found using Coverity were address (primarily freeing
> + memory on error conditions)
> + - The pactest suite was upgraded to allow parallel testing using
> + the tap.sh library
> + - makepkg:
> + - makepkg is in the process of being split into a library. This
> + allows various areas to be extended by adding a file into
> + libmakepkg (e.g. package/PKGBUILD checking, adjusting
> + files before creating the final package).
> + - PKGBUILD variables checked to be arrays or not as appropriate
> + - pkgver() and prepare() are now run with --noextract (FS#43498,
> + FS#46800)
> + - the ability to build a single package in a PKGBUILD has been
> + removed
> + - the output when checking checksums for architecture specific
> + sources is improved (FS#43444)
> + - improved handling of bazaar sources (FS#43448)
> + - fix source package signing with SRCPKGDIR set
> + - add option to compress png images with optipng
> + - add --packagelist option, which lists all packages build from
> + a PKGBUILD
> + - add --printsrcinfo flag to print SRCINFO file for a PKGBUILD
> + - record build information in a .BUILDINFO file
> + - add whirlpool to list of hashing options (FS#45859)
> + - makepkg-template:
> + - support multiple --template-dir
> + - added a testsuite
> + - repo-add:
> + - Always generate the .files database
> + - Only update database if the entire operation succeeds
> + - unarmored package signatures are rejected
> + - contrib:
> + - checkupdates: give error when fakeroot is missing
> + - checkupdates: provide packages versions in output
> + - checkupdates: fix failure in some locales (FS#40405)
> + - paccache: Add -q/--quiet
> + - pacdiff: do not require DIFFPROG for -o/--output (FS#46184)
> + - zsh_completion: updated to fix many missing options
> 4.2.1 - Remove warnings about incorrect directory ownership until
> packaging files with dynamic users/groups is improved
> - Do not require a specific automake version when building from
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