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@@ -0,0 +1,431 @@ +Version 3.38.1 - 16 November 2010 + +- fix crashing while removing several packages (#248) +- enable to compile with rpm-4.9.x + +Version 3.38 - 16 November 2010 + +- fix the key parsing to handle PEM encapsulated header portion (bug +#61636) + +Version 3.37 - 20 September 2010 + +- fix crashing on undefined packages (#54521) + +Version 3.36 - 23 July 2010 + +- Fix wrong deferencement on HASH (warning triggered by perl 5.12) + +Version 3.35 - 23 April 2010 + +- when using auto-select, honour search-medias if some were specified + +Version 3.34.1 - 23 March 2010 + +- check selected packages for unsatisfied requires when a promoted package is + backtracked and no replacement is found (#57224, Anssi Hannula) + +Version 3.34 - 24 February 2010 + +- check for conflicting selected packages before selecting a package (#57224) + (by Anssi Hannula) + +Version 3.33 - 5 October 2009, by Christophe Fergeau + +- fix lookup of existing pubkeys (#53710) (by Pascal Terjan) + +Version 3.32 - 10 August 2009, by Christophe Fergeau + +- backtrack_selected: use set_rejected_and_compute_diff_provides for package + removal (Anssi Hannula) +- obey options (keep, nodeps) when unselecting current package in the case + that was added in 3.31 (Anssi Hannula) + +Version 3.31 - 28 July 2009, by Christophe Fergeau + +- add support for querying %disttag & %distepoch (by Per Øyvind Karlsen) +- clean up and bring back rpm5.org support (by Per Øyvind Karlsen) +- keep track of sources for obsoleted/removed levels (#50666) Anssi Hannula) +- keep psel/promote info and remove deadlocked pkg instead of aborting upgrade + (#52105, Anssi Hannula) +- _handle_conflicts: check all provides for conflicts, not just package name + (#52135, Anssi Hannula) +- unselect current package if an avoided package is already selected (#52145, + Anssi Hannula) +- do not try to promote to an older package (#52460, Anssi Hannula) +- add a backtrack entry "conflicts" for avoided packages in backtrack_selected + (#52153, Anssi Hannula) + +Version 3.30 - 11 May 2009, by Christophe Fergeau + +- rework public key handling since librpm behaviour has changed. It's no longer + possible to tell it to add the same key multiple times which was causing + weird "unable to import pubkey" messages when a mirror contains different + pubkeys for the same key, fixes #50383 + +Version 3.29 - 27 March 2009, by Christophe Fergeau + +- fix regression introduced by fix for bug #47803 (fix by Anssi Hannula). + Without this patch, urpmi got stuck in an infinite loop when trying + to upgrade from 2008.1. + +Version 3.28 - 25 March 2009, by Christophe Fergeau + +- postpone user choices as much as possible to avoid asking the user + unnecessary questions, (bug #48100, Anssi Hannula) + +Version 3.27 - 24 March 2009, by Christophe Fergeau + +- don't silently install suggests (bug #47934) +- fix _handle_diff_provides in case of impossible-to-satisfy selected + packages (bug #48223, Anssi Hannula) +- check rep for another pkg providing X if the prev pkg gets removed + due to a conflict (bug #47803, Anssi Hannula) + +Version 3.26 - 5 March 2009, by Thierry Vignaud + +- verify_signature: enable to check signatures against a chrooted rpmdb + (especially important for installer where there's no rpmdb in / and thus no + keys to check against) + +Version 3.25 - 16 January 2009, by Christophe Fergeau + +- previous fix for bug #46874 was bogus, really fix it this time + +Version 3.24 - 13 January 2009, by Christophe Fergeau + +- fix sorting choices on provided version (feature introduced in 3.08, + but was not working if packages were coming from different repository) +- when a "Requires:" can be fullfilled by several different packages and + one of those packages is explicitly required by another package which + is also being installed, silently choose this package instead of letting + the choice up to perl-URPM user (fixes bug #46874) + +Version 3.23 - 12 December 2008, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- fix bad free() (thanks to glibc for detecting it) + +Version 3.22 - 12 December 2008, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- fix scriptlet failing: + adapt to librpm4.6, rpmtsSetRootDir(ts, "") is forbidden + +Version 3.21 - 9 December 2008, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- adapt to librpm4.6 +- drop list_rpm_tag() + +Version 3.20 - 14 October 2008, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- $trans->run can now return both the translated errors, and some parsable + errors (useful for example to detect diskspace issues) + +Version 3.19 - 7 October 2008, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- handle flag "replacefiles" + +Version 3.18 - 7 July 2008, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- revert change introduced in 3.16 (it breaks too much, eg + superuser--priority-upgrade.t test case), and introduce + $state->{rejected_already_installed} instead + +Version 3.17 - 4 July 2008, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- add traverse_tag_find(), removed_or_obsoleted_packages() +- handle $state->{orphans_to_remove} in selected_size() and + build_transaction_set() + +Version 3.16 - 26 June 2008, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- when not selecting a package because already installed, + put it in $state->{rejected} with flags {installed} + +Version 3.15 - 23 June 2008, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- fix urpmi wrongly considering epochless conflicts to match any epoch in a + case when urpmi should upgrade a conflicting package to an actually + non-conflicting version (cf epochless-conflict-with-promotion urpmi test) + (Anssi) + +Version 3.14 - 23 May 2008, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- add is_package_installed() in URPM/Resolve.pm + (to be used in urpmi 5.20) + +Version 3.13 - 20 May 2008, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- do not ignore dropped provide from updated package (mdvbz#40842) + +Version 3.12 - 7 March 2008, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- do allow to promoting a pkg even if it has unsatisfied require (since the + code will then fix the unsatisfied require). fixes "big transaction" + (cf urpmi split-transactions--strict-require.t test_efgh()) +- rpm5.org port done (by Per Øyvind Karlsen) + +Version 3.11 - 26 February 2008, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- restore FILENAME_TAG in generated hdlist (to be compatible with older + distros where ->filename can rely on it) (thanks to Nanar) + +Version 3.10 - 26 February 2008, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- add filesize to synthesis, add ->filesize to get it, and add + selected_size_filesize() to compute the sum +- allow urpmi to know a package was not selected because a newer version is + installed (#29838) +- handle new package providing xxx which conflicts with an installed package (#17106) +- fix sort choices changed in perl-URPM 3.08 +- allow fixing "using one big transaction" that occurs when using --keep + (#30198) +- do not add FILENAME_TAG and FILESIZE_TAG to hdlist anymore, + deprecate ->header_filename, + deprecate URPM::Build::parse_rpms_build_headers + +Version 3.08 - 25 February 2008, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- sort choices on virtual package by provided version (#12645) + +Version 3.07 - 11 January 2008, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- add URPM::Package->changelogs, a wrapper around ->changelog_time, ->changelog_name, ->changelog_text +- resolve kmod requires even if first choice is a source dkms + +Version 3.05 - 8 January 2008, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- fix regression in ->parse_rpm (introduced in 3.00) + (was breaking genhdlist2 and mkcd) + +Version 3.04 - 20 December 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- fix regression in parse_pubkeys() (introduced in 3.00) (#36121) + +Version 3.03 - 14 December 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- suggests: + handle both RPMTAG_SUGGESTSNAME (as done in SuSE and in Mandriva > 2008.0) + and RPMTAG_REQUIRENAME + RPMSENSE_MISSINGOK (as done in Mandriva 2008.0) + +Version 3.02 - 14 December 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- fix "make test" on rpm 4.4.2.2 +- fix rpm 4.5 support + +Version 3.01 - 11 December 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- add URPM::DB::verify() + +Version 3.00 - 11 December 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- replace ->import_needed_pubkeys and ->import_pubkey in favor of + import_needed_pubkeys_from_file() and ->import_pubkey_file + (! this breaks API !) +- drop $package->upgrade_files() (unused for a long time afaik) +- rpm.org HEAD support + +Version 2.10 - 22 November 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- much simpler --auto-select algorithm + (fixes #35718, ie auto-selecting with strict-arch) + (!! DANGEROUS CHANGE !!) +- rpm 4.5 support (thanks to peroyvind) (#35323) + +Version 2.09 - 8 November 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- use a simple function to return simple string list from header + (fixes getting >4096 long rpm changelogs) + (!! static buffer size limitation in callback_list_str_xpush() should be fixed !!) + +Version 2.08 - 24 October 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- fix build on rpm 4.4.2.2 + +Version 2.07 - 1 October 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- prefer precompiled kmod packages corresponding to installed kernels +- don't resolve suggested virtual packages if already installed (#34376) + +Version 2.06 - 28 September 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- also handle promotion via obsolete for conflicts + +Version 2.05 - 28 September 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- package promotion must respect strict_arch +- enhance sorted graph by better taking into account conflicts from state->{rejected} + (fixes "big transaction" in urpmi split-transactions--strict-require.t test) + +Version 2.04 - 27 September 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- handle promotion via obsolete, not only provides + +Version 2.03 - 20 September 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- fix bug doing "urpmi kernel-source" + +Version 2.02 - 18 September 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- prefer every kernel-<flavor>-devel-<version> packages for which + kernel-<flavor>-<version> is selected +- fix regression in 2.00: we can't cache the platform, cache the result of + is_arch_compat instead + +Version 2.01 - 14 September 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- fix bug occurring with --keep +- fix regression in 2.00: keep_unrequested_dependencies is still used by + installer. restore it, but must now be set trough + $urpm->{keep_unrequested_dependencies} + +Version 2.00 - 13 September 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- speedup is_arch_compat (7 times faster) by keeping the platform in a cache +- do not propose packages for non installed locales +- pass the prefered choices to {callback_choices}: this allows urpmi to select + all the prefered packages according to installed locales +- handle promote for conflict from installed package + (fixes test_gh() from urpmi split-transactions--promote test case) +- handle promote from installed package which require a unselected package, + whereas new package does not require it anymore + (cf test_d & test_e from split-transactions--conflict urpmi test case) + +Version 1.80 - 3 September 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- fix bug in sort_graph (used by build_transaction_set) + +Version 1.78 - 31 August 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- fix dead-loop in build_transaction_set (#33020) + +Version 1.77 - 29 August 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- disable "dropping tags from rpm header" until we can safely use it + +Version 1.76 - 28 August 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- build_transaction_set: new sort algorithm which allow returning sets of + circular dependent packages, taking into account obsoleted packages + (fixes #31969). It may still fail in presence of conflicts +- allow running transaction with justdb option +- fix split_length > 1 + (eg: "urpmi --split-length 2 a b c" will only install 2 pkgs) +- spec2srcheader: workaround parseSpec returning a header where ->arch is set + to %{_target_cpu} whereas we really want a header similar to .src.rpm + (see #32824) + +Version 1.75 - 12 August 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- fix dropping tags from rpm header. + it hasn't work since MDK8.1 and rpm 4.0. + it may break urpmi!! but potentially allows a much smaller hdlist.cz :) + +Version 1.74 - 12 August 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- sort choices per media, then per version + +Version 1.73 - 11 August 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- allow running transaction with replagekgs option + +Version 1.72 - 10 August 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- modify parse_hdlist so that partial hdlist reading can be used + (needed when some stuff is already done in the callback) + +Version 1.71 - 9 August 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- compilation fixes on rpm < 4.4.8 + +Version 1.69 - 9 August 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- "suggests" are no more handled as "requires" +- resolve_requested support "suggests": a newly suggested package is installed + as if required (can be disabled with option no_suggests) + +Version 1.68 - 3 August 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- add $trans->Element_version and $trans->Element_release + +Version 1.67 - 22 June 2007, by Olivier "Nanar" Thauvin + +- add osscore, archscore and platformscore function to URPM +- is_platform_compat function to Pkg object +- fix call to rpm function in spec2header() +- fix some compilation warnings + +Version 1.66 - 2 July 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- fix --auto-select skipping some packages because of other packages providing + a more recent version, but no obsolete between those packages. + the fix is to revert commit from Aug 2002: + "fixed propable old package (according provides) requested by + request_packages_to_upgrade." + +Version 1.65 - 22 June 2007, by Olivier Thauvin + +- really fix arch_score evaluation + +Version 1.64 - 12 June 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- hack on $pkg->is_arch_compat to make it return true for noarch packages + when using rpm 4.4.8 (#31314) + +Version 1.63 - 9 May 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- add $trans->Element_fullname + +Version 1.62 - 3 May 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- pass the virtual package name as a parameter to {callback_choices} in + ->resolve_requested +- add $trans->NElements and $trans->Element_name + to be able to display name of uninstalled package in callback_uninst +- fix b--obsoletes-->a and c--conflicts-->a prompting for upgrading a + (need a fix in urpmi which rely on the $state->{rejected} + to upgrade (-U) b instead of installing (-i) it) + +Version 1.60 - 8 March 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- more debugging hooks +- create $urpm->packages_providing($name) and use it +- create $urpm->packages_by_name($name) + +Version 1.59 - 1 March 2007, by Olivier Thauvin + +- rpm 4.4.8 adaptions +- load rpm config files at module load, improve the mechanism + +Version 1.58 - 14 February 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- don't check signature and digest in ->traverse and ->traverse_tag + (=> x15 speedup, ie 2.5 speedup on urpmi --auto-select and rpmdrake) + +Version 1.57 - 9 February 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- allow upgrading from noarch to x86_64 even if strict-arch + +Version 1.56 - 19 January 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- tell perl that strings from rpm headers are utf8 +- add URPM::bind_rpm_textdomain_codeset() to set encoding of messages returned + by rpmlib, and tell perl that those strings are utf8 +- really use strict-arch by default on x86_64 + +Version 1.55 - 10 January 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- bug fix release +- fix "not selecting foo-1 since the more recent foo-1 is installed" causing + urpmi to try to remove the package it wants to install (#28076) + +Version 1.54 - 9 January 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- if we have a choice between foo-1 and bar-1 and foo-2 is installed, + prefering bar-1 instead of foo-1 + (otherwise we can hit: "the more recent foo-2 is installed, but does not + provide xxx whereas foo-1 does", cf bug #27991) +- bar is needed, foo-1 does provide bar, installed foo-2 does not provide bar: + do not let the algorithm use foo-2 as if it also provides bar +- allow understanding what ->resolve_requested is doing through a callback ($urpm->{debug_URPM}) +- cleanup some code in ->resolve_requested +- make the documentation for ->is_arch_compat more clear |