Arch Linux

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/