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VERSION         DESCRIPTION
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3.0.0         - TODO this needs alot of work
              - switched to libfetch in place of libftp
              - attempt to speed up file reading by reading /desc and /depends
                on demand
              - bugfix for holdpkgs during an upgrade
              - fix building with --enable-debug
              - fixed the download progressbar
              - -Ss works again for multiple repos
              - bugfix for -Sp
              - downloads are interruptable again
              - new libalpm function: alpm_db_search()
              - pactest: initial import, run make check to call it
              - new libalpm function: alpm_parse_config()
              - new libalpm function: alpm_fetch_pkgurl()
              - implemented the progressbar for pacman -R
              - the package name is now properly displayed in the progressbar
                during install/upgrade
              - updatesync: bugfix when deleting packages from the repo
              - create /tmp before locking the database, useful when -r is used
                in an empty dir
              - makepkg: recoginze .TGZ, .ZIP and other uppercase extensions
              - python: added a few casting functions
              - ported libalpm to Solaris/Sparc
              - bugfixes in the Hungarian translation
              - bugfix for pacman -Qi -p
              - new function in libalpm: alpm_db_setserver()
              - incremented libalpm's sover due to new error codes intruduced
                by alpm_db_setserver()
              - added python bindings
              - fixed a stale lockfile problem (when packages were corrupted)
              - fixed problem when sometimes ^C was ignored 
              - new pacman option: --ask
              - libalpm: prefixed all internal functions with _alpm
              - makepkg: bugfix for suboptions=('nostrip')
              - new package property: "build type" - it can be "chroot" or
                custom
              - updated Hungarian translation
              - the old extra repo is now merged to the frugalware one
              - handle the case properly when the user hits ^C during a
                package install
              - fix the output of scriptlet messages
              - check if enough free space if available
              - pipe and parse scriptlet messages. see man FrugalBuild
              - new mirror: ftp10
              - udatesync: use bzip2 instead of gzip for package databases
              - update/gensync: bugfix for the pkgdesc_localized directive
              - Hungarian translation update
              - fixed several compilation warning
              - ia64 support
              - manpage split: moved the FrugalBuild specific part from
                man makepkg to man FrugalBuild
              - minor bugfixes in makepkg
              - gettext improvements
              - French translation
              - makepkg support and documentation for pkgdesc localization
              - pacman: display uncompressed package size by default on upgrade
              - initial support for pkgdesc localization
              - bugfix for -Qi and -Qm
              - fix -Sg for multiple repos
              - drop the NoUpgrade lines from the default config
              - makepkg: when removing the pkg dir, remove the subpkgs' pkg
                dir, too
              - significant speedup while sorting dependencies with libalpm
              - fixes for pacman's -r option in pacman and libalpm
              - initial support for uncompressed package sizes in a sync repo
              - minor fixes for de_DE, hu_HU and tr_TR
              - seems that the original pacman3's release is delayed so it's
                no good in waiting for it. changed the versioning scheme to
                our usual x.y.z
              - i18n fixes:
                in the german translation
                in makepkg
              - gpg support in makepkg
2.8.99.28     - added gettext support
              - added German and Hungarian translation for libalpm and pacman
2.9.99.27     - scripts: cleanup, they now require util.sh from FST
              - makepkg: handle spaces in source filenames
              - makepkg: spelling fixes
              - libalpm: fixed a few messages' verbosity level
              - ./autogen.sh --dist now allows to build a snapshot fpm
2.9.99.26     - makepkg: new option -t (to be used with -R)
              - added i386, OpenBSD and OS X support
              - updated mirror list
              - spelling fixes
              - bugfix in pacman (dbpath initialization)
2.9.99.25     - bugfix in the conflicts/provides handling code
              - spelling fix in makepkg
              - include the root string (ie. a slash) in file conflict error
                messages
              - gensync: bugfix for subpkgs
2.9.99.24     - fixed the location of the locally installed packages'
                install/changelog file (so that pre/post_remove and -Qc works
                perfectly again)
              - allow repo names to be longer than 128 chars
              - fixed pacman -v output (not a bug just it was ugly)
2.9.99.23     - bugfix for -Sy
              - gensync: ignore _darcs/ directories
2.9.99.22     - new feature: options=('scriptlet') to force executing the
                install scriptlets even if one builds in a chroot
              - makepkg -RC now uses the chroot's pacman.conf to determine
                what packages need to be removed. this is especially useful
                if you use unofficial repos only in chroot
              - the testsuite is replaced by pactest, see HACKING
2.9.99.21     - bugfix release
2.9.99.20     - handle --noprogress on install/upgrade, too
              - disable progressbar by default if the output is redirected
              - offer deleting a packages if it is corrupted
              - makepkg: install subpackages with -i, too
                         in chroot sync /etc/pacman.d/* from the host system
                         use the chroot's pacman.conf when it's available
              - new pacman option: --noscriptlet for disabling install
                scriptlets
              - new variable in makepkg: $FCC in case the package would use
                gcc directly (not from $PATH)
2.9.99.19     - more verbose error messages on corrupted packages
              - makepkg: added support for clearing the cache of ccache
                         slice warnings for LANG!=C
              - gen/updatesync: bugfix for subdescs() and subarchs()
                                no longer ignore the Finclude function call
2.9.99.18     - makepkg now allows to inherit install scriptlets from a
                scheme
              - allow multiple packages to be installed at once with -U
              - added SBU variable to makepkg.conf
              - 3 major bugfixes from upstream
2.9.99.17     - support for having subpkgs in an other repo. this affects
                gensync and updatesync, also makepkg's manpage is updated
              - support for handle version comparators in makepkg
              - bugfix for Finclude in makepkg
              - removed exit() calls from libalpm
              - bugfix for nobuild packages in sync
2.9.99.16     - fixed a possible infinite loop during -S
              - remove stale lockfile when pacman is interrupted
              - new directive: added suboptions() and subarchs() for
                FrugalBuilds
              - added 'nofakeroot' to options()
              - new makepkg witch: -RCC, now -RC only cleans the chroot
2.9.99.15     - fix 'error: transaction already initialized' when using -D
2.9.99.14     - documentation: improved libalpm manpages an added a main
                libalpm(3) manpage
              - yet another bugfix for the install/upgrade progressbar
              - remove stale lockfile after -R/-A
              - fixed a segfault when removing a package that is reqired by
                other packages
2.9.99.13     - Allow queries (-Q, -Si, etc) during an other pacman is
                running (ie. -Syu)
              - Two bugfixes in connection with provides
              - Improved makepkg output for subpackages (crazy)
2.9.99.12     - fixed preparing docs, 2.9.99.11 always supposed we want to
                disable that feature
2.9.99.11     - fixed progressbar when installing and upgrading packages at
                the same time
              - in general, modified makeworld to work properly on Frugalware
              - makepkg: if build fails, save the buildlog when using -R
              - sudo improvements for makepkg & makeworld
              - display "checking for conflicting files..." during -S
              - initial doxygen support
2.9.99.10     - fixed -Sg output - now frugalpkg works again
              - fixed a double free() when installing conflicting packages
              - fixed an annoying bug with progressbar, now works as it did
                in the pacman 2.x times
              - don't care about a to-be-replaced package's newer version
2.9.99.9      - fixed -S/-U/-A segfault. hopefully not everybody upgraded
                yet...
2.9.99.8      - if you have foo installed, and bar replaces + provides foo,
                then remove foo, and install bar (now works again)
              - upgrade only pacman first during a -Su
              - removed duplicated error messages
              - more verbose error message for conflicting files when using
                -S
2.9.99.7      - bugfix for -Sg
              - if pacman can't create its cachedir, then use /tmp (bugfix)
2.9.99.6      - bugfix for -Rs
              - pre_install/pre_upgrade scripts are working again
              - added a -f option to gensync/updatesync (don't die if the fpm
                is missing)
              - bugfix for --ignore
              - added ppc support (to configure)
              - handle broken databases (just print an error message, don't
                segfault)
              - more verbose error messages for unsatisfied dependencies
2.9.99.5      - re-added SBU support to makepkg (which was accidently dropped
                by 2.9.99.0)
              - initial package splitting support
              - memleak fixes
              - more verbose error messages on file conflicts
2.9.99.4      - fixed running scriptlets when -r is used
              - don't die on up to date databases (when you do -Sy twice)
              - more verbose error messages (ie. when there is a missing
                dependency)
2.9.99.3      - fixed -v option
              - allow c++ usage in alpm.h
              - fixed logging everything twice to pacman.log
2.9.99.2      - makepkg -R works again if you haven't had a chroot yet (was a
                pacman bug)
              - output fix for -Sy
              - if you have installed foo, and then you do a -S bar, then now
                pacman offers you to remove foo (as it should)
2.9.99.1      - fix makepkg -g
              - makepkg: fixed changelog generation
              - fixed --noconfirm
2.9.99.0      - this is the first release which is based on pacman-lib
                (converted the initial cvs repo to darcs)
2.9.8         - Changed behaviour with original=X,current=Y,new=Z scenario
                - keep old in place, install new as .pacnew
              - Search package provides when finding matching targets with -S
              - Frugalware: added -Qm option to find foreign packages
              - Frugalware: added DistCC support to makepkg
              - bugfix: before searching databases for a dependency, make sure
                one of the packages in the final list doesn't already provide
                that dependency
              - fix for segfaults that occurred when propagating requiredby
                fields to replaced packages where one package depended on
                another replaced package
              - a better fix for pacman-optimize integrity checks
              - fix for regex searches with -Ss (Miklos Vajna)
              - added a --noprogressbar for scripts to use
2.9.7         - fixed the dupe listings of packages when dealing w/ groups
              - patches from Miklos Vajna:
                - add regexp search support for -Qs and -Ss
                - fixed md5sums on x86_64
                - add --sudosync to makepkg
                - show syntax help if an invalid option is used
                - added makepkg option to disable ccache support
              - changed license field to operate as an array, not a string
              - added more logic for file conflict checks - if one target
                is a file and the other is a directory, then it's a conflict
              - fixed the integrity check in pacman-optimize
              - reverted NoUpgrade to old behaviour and instead, added the
                NoExtract directive to pacman.conf, which prevents a file
                from ever being extracted on to the system
                 eg, NoExtract = home/httpd/html/index.html
2.9.6         - added a pacman-optimize script to try and defragment the DB
              - modified NoUpgrade behaviour to avoid extracting files
                that are missing from the filesystem -- this helps in
                situations where the admin does not want the file there, eg,
                remove index.html so index.php takes precedence
              - fixed a bug where files would sometimes go missing if they
                moved from one package to another
              - add db_remove() which is responsible for clearing out stale
                hash table entries when packages are removed
              - added ccache support to makepkg
              - patch from Aurelien Foret fixes a few memory leaks
2.9.5         - bugfix: missing files after re-ordering packages wrt
                deps with --upgrade
              - added "Repository" line to -Si output
              - patch from Tommi Rantala to fix trim() behaviour with
                empty or whitespace-only strings
              - fixed removal order when using -Rc or -Rs
2.9.4         - fixed a bug that was introduced from another bugfix :-/
2.9.3         - fixed a couple manpage typos
              - added --ignore to -S operations, works just like IgnorePkg
              - respect IgnorePkg list when pulling in dependencies
              - numerous memleak fixes
              - some code changes to improve customizability/branding
              - Makefile fix for nonstandard lib search paths (Kevin Piche)
              - fixed the leftover directories in /tmp
              - speed improvement patches from Tommi Rantala
2.9.2         - bugfix for 2.9.1 
2.9.1         - --refresh now only downloads fresh packages lists if they've
                been updated (currently only works with FTP)
2.9           - Improved -Rs functionality -- pacman now tracks why a package
                is installed: explicitly, or as a dependency for another
                package.  -Rs will only remove dependencies that were not
                explicitly installed.
              - Added compressed package size to sync DBs -- shows the total
                size of packages before downloading
              - Patch from Tommi Rantala:
                - Allow --info and --list together in queries
              - Patch from Kevin Piche:
                - Use list_add_sorted() with -Sg
              - Patch from Hegedus Marton Csaba:
                - Better manpage compression
              - Added checks for additional hyphens in package versions
              - mktemp was failing if %pmo_root%/tmp was missing -- fixed
2.8.4         - Added updatesync script from Jason Chu
              - Changed the pacman binary to be dynamically linked
                - Included a pacman.static binary as well
                - Added fakeroot checks when seeing if we're root
              - Fixed makepkg to use 'tail -n 1' instead of 'tail -1'
              - Added patch from Kevin Piche:
                - Cleanup db_loadpkgs(), add list_add_sorted()
              - Fixed a memory leak in db_find_conflicts()
2.8.3         - Fixed a little makepkg bug with bash 3.0
              - Fixed resolvedeps to always prefer literals over provisios
              - Added --config option to specify an alternate config file
              - Added "Include" directive to include repositories from
                config files (inspired by Michael Baehr's patch)
              - Added patch from Jason Chu:
                - Even smarter file-conflict checking
2.8.2         - Fixed a segfault bug in file-conflict checks
              - Made --noconfirm actually work.  Go me.
2.8.1         - Added a HoldPkg option in pacman.conf, for the more
                exploratory users who run things like "pacman -R pacman".  It
                will ask for confirmation before removing any packages listed
                in the HoldPkg list
              - Added a --noconfirm switch for use with script automation
              - Modified dependency resolution to prefer packages explicitly
                requested on the cmdline instead of those pulled in by
                resolvedeps().  Example, if neither "xorg" nor "xfree86" is
                installed and "blackbox xfree86" is requested, "xfree86" will
                be used instead of "xorg"
              - Added patch from Jason Chu:
                - Smarter file-conflict checking with symlinked paths and
                  with files that move from one package to another
2.8           - Bugfixes:
                - #861:  file:/// urls not handled properly with XferCommand
                - #1003: set umask before scriptlet calls
                - #1027: download problems with http urls using -U/-A
                - #1044: segfaults when using -Rs
                - #863:  "missing post_remove" errors with some packages
                - #875:  detect low disk space properly
                - #986:  makepkg -e doesn't validate files
                - #1010: add -j option to makepkg
                - #1028: make pacman -Sp runnable as non-root
              - added pre_install and pre_upgrade scriptlet support
              - added an "Architecture" field in the package meta-data
              - added patch from Aurelien Foret which improves performance
                adding or removing packages
              - added implementation of GNU's strverscmp function for better
                portability
              - added explicit unlink() calls when --force is used, which
                prevents those nasty "Text file busy" errors when you
                force-upgrade something like pacman or glibc.
2.7.9         - added the "force" option to packages, so --sysupgrade can
                downgrade packages when it needs to
2.7.8         - added post_remove scriptlet support
              - added -Qs option (bug #854)
              - a provisio does not imply conflict, to make a provisio target
                conflict with anything else that provides the same thing, you
                can now do this by specifying the provisio target as both a
                provides and a conflict, eg:
                   conflicts=('x-server')
                   provides=('x-server')
              - cleaned up the download progress bar a bit
              - added %o parameter to XferCommand so wget can resume properly
              - fixed a segfault in downloadfiles() (bug #787)
              - patches from Oliver Burnett-Hall
                - gensync uses a better temp dir (bug #774)
                - PKGDEST can be set in makepkg.conf (bug #783)
              - patches from Aurelien Foret
                - segfault fix, couple memory leaks
                - more sanity checks in "provides" searches
                - fixed a little display bug in the progress bar
                - made -Qip look like -Qi
                - -Sc now removes OLD packages from cache, use -Scc for all
2.7.7         - added an XferCommand directive that will make pacman use an
                external download utility like wget
              - added a license field to package meta-data
              - add url support to -A and -U operations (download packages)
              - -Ss now searches thru provides fields
              - added --dbonly option to -R
2.7.6         - added --print-uris option
              - fixed an http download bug (bug #667)
              - fixed a segfault related to replaces/conflicts handling
2.7.5         - "replaces" packages were ignoring IgnorePkg in pacman.conf
              - fixed another bug in conflict handling
              - found an out-dated reference to /usr/abs, fixed
              - added a --recursive option for package removal, which removes
                all deps of a target that aren't required by other packages
2.7.4         - fixed a bug in conflict handling, where installing a
                conflicting package would fail even if the new package
                "provided" it
              - if pacman sees a newer version of itself during an upgrade,
                it will ask to install itself first, then be re-run to upgrade
                the other packages.
              - You can now use the --info option with --sync to display an
                uninstalled package's dependency info.
              - Added a sane umask before db writes
              - buffer overflow fix (bug #442)
2.7.3         - makepkg not longer strips files with .exe or .dll extensions
              - Added Aurelien's patch:
                - proxy support (no authentication yet)
                - HTTP/1.1 support
                - an improved progress bar with transfer rates and ETA
              - cleaned up warning output a bit
2.7.2         - Supressed "No such file" messages during stripping
              - Removed extra newlines in /var/log/pacman.log
              - Added a --noextract option to makepkg to skip source extraction
2.7.1         - Fixed a couple obscure segfaults
              - LogFiles were logging incorrect dates - fixed
              - Cleaned up md5sum output in makepkg -g
              - Added (optional) colorized output messages to makepkg
              - Renamed the "stable" repo to "release" in pacman.conf
              - Renamed the "unofficial" repo to "extra" in pacman.conf
2.7           - Added build-time dependencies to makepkg (Jason Chu)
              - Added md5sum integrity checking to packages in --sync
                mode (Aurelien Foret)
              - Memory leak fixes (Aurelien Foret)
              - Added CARCH variable to makepkg.conf for use in PKGBUILDs
              - Added LogFile option for direct-to-file logging
              - Added -Qii handling to show modified config files
              - Allow --sync targets to specify an explicit repository to
                sync from (eg, pacman -S current/patch)
2.6.4         - Altered pacman_upgrade() to allow a package to replace itself
2.6.3         - A couple memory fixes in the new replaces code
2.6.2         - Fixed a memory cleanup bug
              - Aurelien's patch:
                - bug #159 implemented (for -S and -R)
                - fixed a bug with pacman -Sg (pacman was browsing only one
                  db to get groups)
                - fixed a bug with list_merge()
                - fixed some MLK (in dumppkg() and with "-Qi --orphans")
                - now "pacman -Sg" only displays groups (without content)
                  whereas "pacman -Sg target1 target2" displays groups
                  target1 and target2 with content
2.6.1         - Added http download support (Aurelien Foret)
              - Improved makepkg's --builddeps behaviour when called via
                makeworld
              - makepkg's md5 validation now occurs before source extraction
              - makepkg delays fakeroot entry until after option parsing
              - Fixed an argument-passing bug in fakeroot
              - Modified pacman's behaviour wrt provides -- it now allows
                multiple packages to be installed, even if they provide the
                same thing (they were treated as conflicts before)
2.6           - Added group handling, so one can run 'pacman -S kde' and
                install all files from the KDE group
              - Fixed a duplication bug in cascade package removal
              - Added support for virtual provisions with "provides" tags
              - When conflicts are encountered, pacman now offers the chance
                to remove the conflicting packages (provides or literals)
              - Added support for renamed/combined packages with a "replaces"
                tag
              - Added --nostrip option to makepkg
              - Improved --search to list all packages from all repos when
                a search term is omitted
              - Added logging support through syslog()
              - Added fakeroot support to makepkg (RomanK)
              - Added MD5sum generation/validation to makepkg (RomanK)
              - Fixed a progress bar bug (Aurelien Foret)
              - Sorted makepkg's .FILELISTs (Aurelien Foret)
              - Targets are now re-ordered w.r.t. dependencies when
                using -A/-U
              - Modified --search to work when called as -Sys
              - Modified abs to use ABS_ROOT from /etc/abs/abs.conf (Aurelien)
              - Other bug fixes
2.5.1         - Minor bug fixes
2.5           - Added an URL tag to package info
              - Sped up package load times by about 500% by introducing
                a .FILELIST into the package
              - Renamed the install scriptlet from ._install to .INSTALL
              - Added patch from Aurlien Foret:
                - Better lock handling (RW and RO)
                - Sorted package order in -Qi's dependency lists
                - Added a DBPath option to pacman.conf
                - Fixed memory leaks
                - Added the --nodeps option to -S
2.4.1         - Fixed a bug in makepkg's option parsing
2.4           - Added getopt-style options to makeworld
              - Added -w <destdir> to makepkg
              - makeworld now properly handles packages with --builddeps
              - Added patches from Aurelien Foret:
                - Cascading package removals. -Rc will remove a package and
                  all packages that require it
                - Support for getopt-style options in makepkg
                - the REQUIREDBY field is now updated when a package is
                  removed with --nodeps, then re-installed.
                - Avoids duplicate dependency checks with sync
                - Added a "NoPassiveFtp" option in pacman.conf
                - Improvements to the --query listings
2.3.2         - Added patches from Aurelien Foret:
                - FTP resume feature
                - removed the hit-^C-and-delete-the-downloading-file safety
                - IgnorePkg option in pacman.conf
                - FTPAGENT setting in makepkg.conf
                - Added --cleancache option to makepkg
2.3.1         - Fixed the progress bar overflow
              - Pacman does not ask "Are you sure" when you use --downloadonly
              - Switched up a couple makepkg options to be more consistent
                with pacman's options
              - If you ^C out of a file download, the package will now be
                removed from the cache directory
2.3           - The beginnings of source-side dependency resolution, makepkg
                can now either A) download/install missing deps with pacman
                -S; or B) find missing deps in the /usr/abs tree and
                build/install them.
              - Added a --nodeps option to makepkg
              - Improved the --search output
2.2           - More bugfixes
              - Added --downloadonly switch to --sync
2.1           - Lots of bugfixes
              - Added support for multiple respositories
              - Improved the config file layout
              - Improved dependency resolution and sorting
2.0           - Added dependency functionality
              - Completely new database format, similar to FreeBSD
              - Better internal data structures
              - Merged pacsync functionality into pacman
              - Now uses libftp for all file retrieval (currently only ftp)
              - Automatic dependency resolution, a la apt-get
              - Moved config stuff from /etc/pacsync.conf to /etc/pacman.conf
              - Much better backup file handling, now uses md5 hashes a la rpm
1.23          - Added install/upgrade/remove scripting control
1.22          - Some manpage typo fixes
              - Added --root switch to pacsync
              - Added --help and ability to specify a PKGBUILD to makepkg
              - Switched default downloader to snarf
1.21          - Added better backup control -- upgrade/add and remove
                do different things with the -n switch
1.2           - Added wildcard handling
              - Added man pages for makepkg and pacsync
              - Added the pacsync utility for remote file fetching/sync
1.1           - Fixed some string-handling bugs
              - Added better handling of configuration files and the like.
                If "file" is about to be removed, but it is designated to
                backed up, then it will be copied to "file.save"
              - Changed db_find_conflicts() to ignore directories
1.0           - Initial Release