From d8314d9dd12f1bc40960ee9a498ded4ed9e917a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pascal Rigaux Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:26:52 +0000 Subject: - 5.0 - urpmf, urpmq: o use xml info instead of hdlist when possible o "urpmq -l" is faster (3x) o "urpmf -l" is slower (1.5x) o "urpmf --sourcerpm" is much faster o see "xml-info" option in urpmi.cfg(5) to see when those files are downloaded o new require: perl module XML::LibXML - urpmq: o use rpm file instead of hdlist/xml-info when file is local o use URPM::Package->changelogs (need perl-URPM 3.06) - urpmi.update, urpmi.addmedia, urpmi.removemedia: o drop hdlist support replaced with xml media_info (this imply file-deps are correctly handled, see genhdlist2(1)) - urpmi.addmedia o new --xml-info option --- NEWS | 18 +++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 1d8a1b1a..2e7902d8 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,25 +1,37 @@ +Version 5.0 - 11 January 2008, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux + +- urpmf, urpmq: + o use xml info instead of hdlist when possible + o "urpmq -l" is faster (3x) + o "urpmf -l" is slower (1.5x) + o "urpmf --sourcerpm" is much faster + o see "xml-info" option in urpmi.cfg(5) to see when those files are downloaded + o new require: perl module XML::LibXML +- urpmq: + o use rpm file instead of hdlist/xml-info when file is local + o use URPM::Package->changelogs (need perl-URPM 3.06) - urpmf o fix an *old* bug (since december 2002) making urpmf keeps parsed hdlist files in memory (was fixed for multitags, but not for simple tags) - all tools: - o drop hdlist support (will be replaced with xml media_info) o replace /var/lib/urpmi/MD5SUM with /var/lib/urpmi/MD5SUM. (this will allow checking xml media_info is up-to-date even if we don't update it at the same time as synthesis is updated) - urpmi.update, urpmi.addmedia, urpmi.removemedia: + o drop hdlist support replaced with xml media_info + (this imply file-deps are correctly handled, see genhdlist2(1)) o drop option "-c" which used to clean /var/cache/urpmi/headers o enhancement: only parse updated synthesis - urpmi.addmedia o do check md5sum of downloaded synthesis (the check was only done on urpmi.update) + o new --xml-info option - urpmi: o do remove __db* on priority-upgrade (fix regression introduced in 4.10.15) o always prompt before doing a priority-upgrade transaction, even if there is only one priority upgrade package (since there will be more packages to install after restarting urpmi) -- urpmq: - o use URPM::Package->changelogs (need perl-URPM 3.06) Version 4.10.19 - 12 December 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux -- cgit v1.2.1