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2020-06-01Remove autotools supportAllan McRae
This removes support for autotools in favour of meson.
2020-05-09Add config option to specify amount of parallel download streamsAnatol Pomozov
It includes pacman.conf new 'ParallelDownloads' option that specifies how many concurrent downloads cURL starts in parallel. Add alpm_option_set_parallel_downloads() ALPM function that allows to set this config option programmatically. Signed-off-by: Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2020-05-09doc: remove vim modelines from BUILDINFO(5)Eli Schwartz
We (thought we) removed all modelines from the project in commit 860e4c4943ad062bd0eff99f28e7d64804b3c08e, but apparently this one sneaked in by virtue of this manpage being added to the project after the "remove all the modelines" patch was submitted, but before it was applied. I must have failed to update the patch to remove it from this file also. Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2020-04-29Add NoProgressbar to pacman.conf optionsIvy Foster
This is useful for dumb terminals that do not support escape sequences. Signed-off-by: Ivy Foster <escondida@iff.ink> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2020-04-15pacman.8: Fix typoAllan McRae
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2020-02-10build-aux/update-copyright 2019 2020Allan McRae
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2020-02-10Add pacman-hooks.5 man page symlinkAllan McRae
Improve discoverability of the alpm-hooks man page by adding a pacman-hooks symlink. Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2020-01-28makepkg: add CRC checksums and set these to be the defaultAllan McRae
Checksums arrays should be filled with values provided by upstream. We currently have md5 set as an unsecure default, and are constantly asked to change it to sha2. However, just changing the default to a stronger checksum gives the user the impression that "makepkg -g" checksums are perfect. Instead, change the default checksum to a CRC, to make it clear that any checksum generated purely by "makepkg -g" is not ideal. Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2020-01-28Note that checksums from "makepkg -g" are not idealAllan McRae
Generating checksums with "makepkg -g" only determines that the user of a PKGBUILD has the same file as the packager (assuming no collision). This means an upstream source could be maliciously changed and passed on as valid by a PKGBUILD. To avoid this, it is essential that any checksums used in a PKGBUILD are as provided by upstream. Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2020-01-07doc: reformat intro to VCS sources to distinguish the grammarEli Schwartz
It's difficult to find it embedded inside a prose paragraph. Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2020-01-07doc: clarify the format of a PKGBUILD source fragmentEli Schwartz
Currently, it could be misread to say that a fragment is literally 'commit', rather than 'commit=somehash'. Anecdotally this does not seem to be obvious to everyone, and rewording it certainly doesn't hurt. Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2019-11-26makepkg: add the $startdir to package .BUILDINFOEli Schwartz
This value is needed for reproducible builds. The reason is because $BUILDDIR changes its behavior depending on whether it is the same as $startdir, and the result is that we cannot know whether $srcdir (the path that is potentially embedded into the final package) is actually "$BUILDDIR/src" or "$BUILDDIR/$pkgbase/src". Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2019-11-16Add Eli to current maintainersAllan McRae
Also retire Dan into past major contributors. Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2019-11-01Release 5.2.1Allan McRae
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2019-10-30autotools: be more templated when getting list of doc dist filesEli Schwartz
Distribute asciidoc sources for all manpages instead of remembering to add files to both variables. Fixes regression in 377d47142f7aaa01ca782e6587f2d4caf663865b which broke building the website from a dist tarball: make: *** No rule to make target 'pacman-conf.8.html', needed by 'html'. Stop. (Technically this regression is already fixed by commit 942b909829d529409216939b36af11e8480726f5, but this is just going to keep happening, I suspect, so we should fix the root cause.) Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2019-10-24Add pacman-conf(8) to the documentation indexEvangelos Foutras
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2019-10-23Update copyright yearsAllan McRae
make update-copyright OLD=2018 NEW=2019 Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2019-10-22Fix distribution of meson filesAllan McRae
Also caught the source of a man page not being distributed. Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2019-10-21Release v5.2.0Allan McRae
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2019-10-07makepkg: add rust support for *FLAGS and debug-prefix-mapEli Schwartz
The rust language supports $RUSTFLAGS to be used automatically in all rustc invocations. Allow setting this in makepkg.conf (e.g. for optimization or debuginfo support), and teach debug+strip to pass the rustc command line argument necessary to rewrite source file paths in the debugging symbols. Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2019-10-04makepkg.conf.5: Document PACKAGER format requirementsAllan McRae
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2019-10-04autotools: distribute meson filesEli Schwartz
If we use make dist to create the official, signed release tarballs, those will not have meson build files by default since autotools doesn't know what they are. Also distribute all src/common/ files. We never strictly needed any of them to be distributed with autotools, because the dist tarball dereferences the symlinks (???), but only some of them were being distributed, and meson needs them to be in the right location as we only build libcommon from the primary files. Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2019-06-06hooks: rename type File to PathAndrew Gregory
Make it clearer that the targets are matched against both directories and regular files and free up File to potentially refer specifically to regular files in the future. File is retained as a deprecated alias for Path for the time being to avoid breaking existing hooks and will be removed in a future release. See FS#53136. Signed-off-by: Andrew Gregory <andrew.gregory.8@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2019-06-06pacman: rework the UI of -Fmorganamilo
Reworks the UI of -F according to FS#47949 In short -F replaces both -Fs and -Fo. Searching for an exact path (target contains "/"), causes the output to switch to the old -Fo output. Otherwise the old -Fs output is used. Also strip the leading "/" from targets like how -Qo does. Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2019-05-28doc: update SRCEXT/PKGEXT to reduce needlessly scary warningsEli Schwartz
Currently this tells people that the settings should not be touched, but we should just rely on the description of what it should be set to, and leave it up to the user. With the previous patch, makepkg aborts if an invalid value is set, greatly reducing the danger of it being badly configured. Also make this clearer by indicating when it would be useful to change the settings -- i.e. disable compression -- and ensure their described defaults are based on the ones established during ./configure or meson setup. Reported-by: Jouke Witteveen <j.witteveen@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2019-05-08makepkg: propagate error codes when package failed to sign correctlyEli Schwartz
Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2019-03-20Use bug tracker to track bugsAllan McRae
The mailing list requires subscription. So does the bug tracker, but that is more obvious. Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2019-03-19doc: generalize description of the bash nature of PKGBUILD functionsEli Schwartz
Currently this is scoped to the build() function, which is simply wrong as it equally applies to any function. Simply moving the paragraphs up to the main manpage section makes this clear. Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2019-03-19Clarify that build_options only apply during build()Que Quotion
Signed-off-by: Que Quotion <quequotion@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2019-03-07Make pacman forget deltas existAllan McRae
Dummy callbacks are still present to prevent compiler warnings until libalpm is delta free. Also remove Delta parsing from pacman.conf. Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2019-03-07Remove pkgdeltaAllan McRae
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2019-03-07Remove delta support from repo-addAllan McRae
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2019-03-07doc: add man page for pacman-confJelle van der Waa
Signed-off-by: Jelle van der Waa <jelle@vdwaa.nl> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2019-03-07doc: set rootdir correctly in man pagesJelle van der Waa
If an alternative rootdir is specified in either meson or configure it's not respected in the generated man pages. Signed-off-by: Jelle van der Waa <jelle@vdwaa.nl> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2019-03-07makepkg: add new checksum algorithm via coreutils b2sumEli Schwartz
coreutils 8.26 in December 2016 added this new hashing method which is compatible with the existing md5sum and sha*sum tool usage, while using the blake2 hash algorithm. makepkg uses coreutils to provide source file integrity checks via ${integ}sum binaries and it makes sense to offer this as an additional option. Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2019-02-04fix various typosmorganamilo
Signed-off-by: morganamilo <morganamilo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2019-01-30libmakepkg: Add lzip ext supportChloe Kudryavtsev
lzip is a lossless data compressor designed to replace gzip and bzip2 as the standard general-purpose compressed format. - add .lz (lzip) support to libmakepkg/util/compress.sh:compress_as - add COMPRESSLZ to makepkg.conf.in - document COMPRESSLZ - document PKGEXT with `.tar.lz` Signed-off-by: Chloe Kudryavtsev <toast@toastin.space> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2019-01-21Fix typo in pacman man pageAllan McRae
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2019-01-16meson: fix website targetEli Schwartz
A number of pages don't actually exist as html inside the source tree, and need to be generated even though they are manpages. This caused the website.tar.gz target to only work inside a dirty tree initially created by autotools. Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2019-01-14update a bunch of links for https and to adapt to changing domainsEli Schwartz
projects.archlinux.org and mailman.archlinux.org are both migrated to new domains. Transifex supports https, so encourage its use by default. Take advantage of the opportunity when updating these links, to also delist some projects that are dead. Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2019-01-14doc: add a couple missing manpages from the html indexEli Schwartz
The index embeds the names of all doc subpages, and these were never updated. Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2019-01-14doc: keep manpages and html pages in syncEli Schwartz
We forgot to add BUILDINFO to the list of html docs. Instead of always updating things in two places, just derive the one from the other. meson did not have this problem as it already derives both lists from one template. Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2018-12-25update NEWS for v5.1.2Andrew Gregory
Signed-off-by: Andrew Gregory <andrew@archlinux.org> (cherry picked from commit f8c73464c9cf86d6b917542585d74514f150c67b)
2018-12-25update NEWS for v5.0.2Andrew Gregory
Signed-off-by: Andrew Gregory <andrew@archlinux.org> (cherry picked from commit fdf53393bc996a514bbfc9fcd6ea19a8bb2f02ed)
2018-11-27Remove Doxyfile from EXTRA_DISTAllan McRae
We generate this now, so no need to distribute. Fixes "make dist". Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2018-11-03pacman-key: just accept one file to verify, and enforce detached sigsEli Schwartz
Simply pass options on to gpg the same way gpg uses them -- no looping through and checking lots of signatures. This prevents a situation where the signature file to be verified is manipulated to contain an embedded signature which is valid, but not a detached signature for the file you are actually trying to verify. gpg does not offer an option to verify many files at once by naming each signature/file pair, and there's no reason for us to do so either, since it would be quite tiresome to do so. In the event that there is no signature/file pair specified to pacman-key itself, - preserve gpg's behavior, *if* the matching file does not exist, by - assuming the signature is an embedded signature - deviate from gpg's behavior, by - offering a security warning about which one is happening - when there is an embedded signature *and* a matching detached file, assume the latter is desired Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2018-11-02Add meson.build files to build with mesonDave Reisner
Provide both build systems in parallel for now, to ensure that we work out all the differences between the two. Some time from now, we'll give up on autotools. Meson tends to be faster and probably easier to read/maintain. On my machine, the full meson configure+build+install takes a little under half as long as a similar autotools-based invocation. Building with meson is a two step process. First, configure the build: meson build Then, compile the project: ninja -C build There's some mild differences in functionality between meson and autotools. specifically: 1) No singular update-po target. meson only generates individual update-po targets for each textdomain (of which we have 3). To make this easier, there's a build-aux/update-po script which finds all update-po targets and runs them. 2) No 'make dist' equivalent. Just run 'git archive' to generate a suitable tarball for distribution.
2018-10-23Dynamically generate Doxyfile from inputDave Reisner
This isn't super interesting for the autotools side, but it's necessary in order to make things sane for other build systems which we might introduce in the future.
2018-09-19makepkg: add support for the zst formatEli Schwartz
Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2018-09-19doc: Remove double spacesRikard Falkeborn
Signed-off-by: Rikard Falkeborn <rikard.falkeborn@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>

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