Une nouvelle version de pacman (le gestionnaire de paquetages d'archlinux) est disponible en test. Cette version 3.1.0 est publiée pour le moment dans le dépôt [testing].

Cette version contient de nombreuses modifications de pacman mais aussi de makepkg comme le montre le changelog ci-dessous:

3.1.0         - paths are now specified as absolute paths (or defaulting to under the specified root directory)
             - all paths can be specified in pacman.conf or on command line
             - updates to pacman clean operation- now cleans uninstalled packages and old sync DBs (FS#8061)
             - remove all hardcoded paths and allow them to be set at configure/build time
             - single mirrorfile- pacman substitutes the repository name in mirror file when $repo is found (FS#6389)
             - New config file options: ShowSize, TotalDownload, IgnoreGroup, UseDelta
             - all scripts have been gettext-ized and can be translated
             - added testdb utility to check pacman DBs for common problems
             - huge additions to pactest suite
             - remove -F/–freshen operation
             - add –ignoregroup option (FS#1592)
             - –ignore and –ignoregroup accept comma separated lists
             - add –needed option for –sync
             - massive optimization and speedup for –owns
             - add -q/–quiet option for -Ss/-Sl and -Q? output (FS#8470)
             - add –asdeps option (install reason: dependency) (FS#7193)
             - replace "Total Package Size" with "Total Download Size" (FS#4182)
             - fix -Q options to work on installed packages AND package files
             - change -Q/–query options to act as filters and increase their flexibility
             - -U/-A <url> now downloads to cachedir (FS#6404)
             - install and build dates are localized
             - optdepends support
             - delta support
             - versioned provisions support
             - versioned conflicts support
             - add < and > operators for versioned dependencies and conflicts
             - bash completion updates
             - mirrorlist updates
             - removed ABS script from codebase (now a separate project)
             - allow multiple pacman cache directories
             - all manpages are now generated using Asciidoc (FS#7312)
             - moved parseconfig from backend library to frontend
             - clean up and refactoring of the ENTIRE codebase
               – remove many useless #ifdefs
               - split many too-long functions
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bsp; - portability updates: compiles and passes tests on BSD and  Darwin (switching libdownload->libfetch)
               - clean up build process
               - use of static code analysis
               - memory leak fixes all over the place
               - fix overzealous use of macros
               - entire codebase builds with -pedantic GCC option

             – libalpm-specific changes:
               - moved location of sync DBs into their own folder to thwart
                 deletion and remove naming limitations
               - REQUIREDBY entries are no longer used in local DB but are
                 computed on the fly when needed, which should resolve
                 phantom dependency issues (FS#7639)
               - ensure we export everything that should be public
               - fix some const correctness issues
               - add list tail ptr shortcut to make last element lookups O(1)
               - database dates are stored as seconds from epoch
               - removed SHA1 support
               - drop in new MD5 library
               - implement topological sorting for dependencies
               - do case sensitive compare in parse_descfile (FS#8081)
               - remove hardcoded architectures
               - conflicts checking speedups and fixes
               - move lockfile location to inside the DB
               - remove gettext calls from DEBUG messages
               - remove faulty diskspace checking
               - move functions out of alpm.c to where they belong
               - rewrite of file extraction code (FS#7484)

             - makepkg-specific changes:
               - entire script has been functionalized
               - only runs in fakeroot when necessary
               - hard linked manpages are now compressed (FS#5392)
               - built-in versionpkg support
               - arch=('any') support (FS#8153)
               - clean up and prettify the output
               - replace tar/cpio/unzip with bsdtar (FS#7485)
               - add –ignorearch option (FS#7355)
               - improved error handling
               - downloads straight to $SRCDEST to avoid copies (FS#7271)
               - support for multiple download protocols (FS#4404)
               - remove –usesudo option, use it by default
               - add –asroot option to discourage building as root
               - add $srcdir and $pkgdir variables (FS#7278)
               - add source package creation option
             - rankmirrors- allow reading from stdin (FS#8043)
             - and many other updates: 198 bugs/FRs closed since 3.0.0 release
             - switch to GIT for source code management

Les testeurs de pacman 3.1 peuvent trouver une version compatible de yaourt à cette adresse:
http://archiwain.free.fr/pacman3.1/