On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 8:18 AM, Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote: > For comment. I have not written the epoch stuff yet... > > > > 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 > >
