For comment. I have not written the epoch stuff yet...
VERSION DESCRIPTION
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3.5.0 - database format changes
- 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)
- more fine grained controll of ignorine dependency
resolution
- -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
commandline
- extract any file bsdtar recognizes
- STRIP_DIRS has been removed in favour 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
CFLAGS/LDFLAGS/etc
- repo-add:
- added -f/--files to create files database (FS#11302)
- pactree: rewritten in C using libalpm
