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NEWS update for pacman-3.4

Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
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Allan McRae 2010-06-03 14:20:44 +10:00 committed by Dan McGee
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VERSION DESCRIPTION
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3.4.0 - new "Architecture" option that will restrict pacman to
installing only packages from the given architecture. Can be
set to "auto" in which case the output of "uname -m" is used
- use "$arch" when specifying a mirror url to automatically
select the correct architecture
- Installing packages with -U can handle installing
dependencies, conflict resolution and replacing packages
- can upgrade the system and install a new package using
"pacman -Syu <pkg>"
- new -D/--database operation for modifying package install
reasons
- new --print and --print-format options to output information
in suitable format for wrapper scripts
- only extract new entries when updating a repo database
- show "Required by" in -Sii output
- -U and -R options always ask for confirmation
- allow -Qo to perform a functional 'which'
- cache cleaning cleans all directories, not just first
- cleanupdelta: new utility to help remove unused deltas from
a repo database
- repo-add: handle removing the final package from a repo
- rankmirrors: rewrite using bash
- vercmp: does not link to libalpm to prevent upgrade issues
- makepkg:
- automatically aborts on any errors during packaging
- changelogs are now included via the "changelog" variable
- can override pkgver, pkgrel and arch in split packages
- repackaging without a package() function is deprecated
- stricter syntax checking for backup and optdepends entries
- file stripping options are configurable
- New --pkg flag to allow building specific package(s) from
split PKGBUILDs.
- build() function is now optional
- warns about reference to the build root in a package
- configure source package destination with SRCPKGDEST
- major internal refactoring of handling tests ("[" to "[[")
- contrib/pactree: print reverse dependency tree
3.3.3 - correctly check the return code from opendir()
- fix possible infinite loop in alpm_list_remove()
- makepkg: