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@@ -0,0 +1,287 @@ +- urpmi + o always upgrade (-U) packages instead of installing (-i) them, + except for inst.list packages. This change is needed to fix + "b--obsoletes-->a and c--conflicts-->a prompting for upgrading a" + in perl-URPM 1.61 + o fix displaying README.*urpmi when using --root or --urpmi-root + o fix displaying README.install.urpmi when installing a package conflicting + with an available package +- for rpmdrake + o make translate_why_removed() safe to call (cf bug #28613) + +Version 4.9.21 - 27 March 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- urpmi + o add kernel-source-latest to skip.list + (to be coherent with other kernel*latest) (#29933) +- urpmi.addmedia + o do display download progression by default (be coherent with other tools), + use -q to hide it +- urpmi.update + o do not display download progression with -q + +Version 4.9.20 - 15 March 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- all tools + o be failsafe when module encoding is not there + (ie when only perl-base is installed) (#29387) +- gurpmi: + o fix displaying size of packages + o fix displaying only the first package in "you're about to..." dialog + o prevent downloading/installing dialog from resizing +- urpmi-parallel-ka-run: + o fix parsing the output of rshp2 (only rshp output was successfully parsed) + +Version 4.9.19 - 8 March 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- urpmi + o fix priority-upgrade broken on some x86_64 (#29125) + (bug introduced in urpmi 4.9.11) +- gurpmi + o use same translation routines as urpmi, fixing various encoding issues (#29248) +- urpmq + o remove duplicated warning for "urpmq -l" when a rpm header is missing (#29174) + +Version 4.9.17 - 6 March 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- urpmq + o add --whatprovides (doing same as -p) (#29175) +- urpmi + o don't auto upgrade mandriva kernels (ie add kernel*-latest to skip.list) + o add perl-MDV-Distribconf to priority upgrade packages + o display translated summaries + +Version 4.9.16 - 2 March 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- urpmi + o fix crash asking for medium +- urpmf + o do not display invalid error at the end when using removable media (#28905) +- urpmq + o --whatrequires-recursive: fix debug message explaining why a package + is added, and enhance the verbose message explaining why some package are + skipped + +Version 4.9.15 - 6 February 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- urpmi.update + o add --probe-rpms to replace -f -f + o -f -f should be allowed (#28500) +- urpmq + o --whatrequires will now handle virtual package requires + (eg: bash is now returned by "urpmq --whatrequires glibc") + (#28367) +- german translation + o don't use non iso-8859-15 chars otherwise perl segfaults (#28537) + (perl bug #41442) + +Version 4.9.14 - 25 January 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- urpmi + o fix encoding issue with "--bug ..." introduced in previous version (#28387) +- urpmi, ... + o workaround no locale (eg: LC_ALL=C): when encoding is "ascii", + do not try to convert strings to this encoding, any encoding will do + (#28367) +- urpmq + o rename option -R into --whatrequires + o rename option -RR into --whatrequires-recursive, + and don't go through virtual packages which are provided by another + package, eg: "skipping package(s) required by db1-devel via devel(libdb), + since that virtual package is provided by libdb2-devel" + (#27814) + o do not document option -P (which is the default) + +Version 4.9.13 - 19 January 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- urpmi, ... + o fix encoding/codeset mess (using the magical + Locale::gettext::bind_textdomain_codeset(..., "UTF-8") from new + perl-Locale-gettext) + o fix translating rpmlib messages (using URPM::bind_rpm_textdomain_codeset()) +- gurpmi2 + o do display installation failed on file conflicts (#22131) +- urpmi.addmedia + o do not display in clear text the password (when using -v or --debug) +- urpmq + o when using synthesis do not download packages to get information. + before this modification, it was downloaded iff one medium was using hdlist (#16772) + o when using synthesis fix using local rpms to get information + before this modification, local rpm was used iff one medium was using hdlist + o display a warning about no hdlist only for needed media, + adapt the warning to the option (for "-i", synthesis can still help), + and tell which rpms and impacted + +Version 4.9.12 - 10 January 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- urpmi + o fix handling removable media (bug introduced in 4.9.x) (#27854) + o with "-v", display the package file copied to disk + o use P (ie ngettext) to handle plurals + o re-allow "urpmi --clean" with no arguments + (broken on january 2006, commit r36390) (#27747) + o be more verbose with "-v" +- urpmi, urpmq, urpmf + o "--media foo" and "--searchmedia foo" use medium "foo" + even if "foo" is flagged "ignore" (#27745) +- urpmi.addmedia + o new option "--probe-rpms" which replaces "-f -f" + o fix using dir "/foo/bar boo" and no hdlist (using *.rpm) + o when using "--distrib <url>", have "xxx" instead of "xxx1" + for the medium name (eg: "Main" instead of "Main1") + o when using --distrib, add noauto media with flag ignore + so that someone can easily use them by removing ignore + (nb: debug_for and srpm media are not added though) + (cf bug #28050) + +Version 4.9.11 - 12 December 2006, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- urpmi + o when "urpmi --auto-select" needs to restart urpmi because of a + priority-upgrade, ensure it doesn't prompt an unneeded choice before + restarting (#27527) + (nb: the problem can still occur on "urpmi rpmdrake") +- urpmi.removedia + o "urpmi.removedia -a" when urpmi.cfg has no entry still warn the user, + but exits with status 0 + +Version 4.9.10 - 7 December 2006, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- urpmi.addmedia + o fix using "--virtual --distrib ..." + +Version 4.9.9 - 6 December 2006, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- urpmi + o fix "rpmdb: environment reference count went negative" + when syslog service is down + o fix having more than "hdlist" flag in urpmi.cfg +- gurpmi2 (and rpmdrake) + o fix crash when syslog service is down (#26256) + +Version 4.9.8 - 6 December 2006, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- urpmi.addmedia, urpmi + o use "hdlist" just like "synthesis" when forcing only hdlist usage + o "hdlist" is valid with "virtual" +- urpmi + o don't say "Package foo-1.1 already installed" + when in fact it is "Package foo-1.2 already installed". + Still display "Package foo-1.1 can not be installed" until we can do + better (#27176) +- gurpmi (tvignaud) + o don't ignore exceptions in callbacks + o fix crash and really lock the urpm db + +Version 4.9.7 - 4 December 2006, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- bug fix release +- urpmi.addmedia + o fix --probe-hdlist + o fix "... with hdlist.cz" (only "... with synthesis.hdlist.cz" was working) +- urpmi + o add the long version of -q/-v (ie --quiet/--verbose) + o --quiet is really quiet (#14538) + +Version 4.9.6 - 31 November 2006, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- bug fix release +- urpmf: + o handle --urpmi-root +- urpmi.addmedia: + o fix downloading synthesis which is done twice when remote + o fix downloading pubkey in media_info/ + +Version 4.9.5 - 30 November 2006, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- all tools: + o new option --urpmi-root that is similar to --root but also use rooted + urpmi db +- urpmi: + o handle buggy "list: xxx" in urpmi.cfg (when the list can't be found) + o handle no "synthesis" together with "with_hdlist: synthesis.hdlist.cz" +- urpmi.cfg: + o new per-medium field "media_info_dir:" which replaces "with_hdlist:" in + most cases. It allows using either hdlist & synthesis when nor + "hdlist:" nor "synthesis" is set (#16232) +- urpmi.update: + o not so verbose by default, only display + 'medium "foo" is up-to-date' or 'medium "foo" updated' +- urpmi.removemedia: + o not so verbose by default, only display 'removing medium "foo"' + o do not allow both "-a" and <name>, fix usage +- urpmi.addmedia: + o not so verbose by default, only display 'adding medium "foo"' + o do not add "hdlist: hdlist.<name>.cz" lines in urpmi.cfg, + compute it from <name> (one can still enforce a file name) + o do not default to --probe-synthesis but use both hdlist/synthesis + +Version 4.9.4 - 24 November 2006, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- urpmi.addmedia: + o fix random ordering of media (using --distrib on a non-remote medium) + o now inserting non-remote medium after first non-remote medium + (instead of adding it as first medium) +- urpmi, urpme, urpmq: + o add option --probe-synthesis (allowed with --use-distrib) + +Version 4.9.3 - 24 November 2006, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- bug fix release: +- fix handling multiple virtual hdlist files + (the second pass was not done...) + +Version 4.9.2 - 24 November 2006, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- bug fix release: +- /foo/@86875:bar.src.rpm is not a url with protocol /foo/@86875 +- /foo/chroot_tmp/... is not a url with protocol /foo/chroot + +Version 4.9.1 - 23 November 2006, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- cleanup locks handling, log locking, and don't say "urpmi database locked" + when it's the rpm database that is locked +- urpmi: + o add --nokeep (which overrides urpmi.cfg global option "keep") + +Version 4.9.0 - 22 November 2006, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- urpmi: + o don't fork on multiple transactions + o fix buggy print "::logger_id::" (#27026) +- gurpmi2 (tvignaud): + o fix unvisible content + o prevent a dialog to have a height of several scores of thousands pixels + o add support of --root +- urpmi.update: + o don't write urpmi.cfg unless really needed + o don't write md5sum in urpmi.cfg (bugfix) +- urpmi.addmedia: + o drop support for "list" file + (now you must have a hdlist/synthesis on remote server) + o drop support for searching recursively rpms when there is no + hdlist/synthesis. Only search in given directory (ie $url/*.rpm) + o do not use list.<media_name> to store passwords, use /etc/urpmi/netrc + instead. Also do have the url in urpmi.cfg, only the password is removed + o change the format of list.<media_name>, it contains only rpm files + relative to the medium url + o deprecate "... with <relative hdlist/synthesis>". It is not useful anymore + (nb: if you want to force using hdlist or synthesis, use --probe-hdlist or + --probe-synthesis) + o don't write urpmi.cfg twice + o do not look for hdlist/synthesis in ../media_info/hdlist$suffix.cz (nb: + with media.cfg, it will still use hdlist from media/media_info/, but it + will simply use the hdlist$suffix.cz given by media.cfg ) + o --norebuild is by default (and deprecated): when the local + hdlist/synthesis is buggy, do not discard it and go searching for *.rpm. + Make it an error instead + o fix building synthesis when using *.rpm (ie no hdlist/synthesis) +- urpmi.removemedia: much faster (since it doesn't parse hdlist/synthesis anymore) +- handle "empty" hdlist/synthesis +- generate names.<media_name> only when the medium is created/updated +- major splitting of urpm.pm in many modules +- major splitting of functions in smaller functions + (eg: update_media was 988 lines long, has been splitted in functions shorter + than 105 lines) +- big code cleanup/rework +- perl_checker compliance (very useful for such big code rework) |