A new development/test release

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
Wed Sep 6 14:58:16 PDT 2006


To give you folks something new to play with while I pack my life into
cardboard boxes and move to a new apartment, here's a tarball of what's
been cooking in svn lately:
http://apt-rpm.org/testing/apt-0.5.15lorg3.90.tar.bz2

For full details see the included Changelog but here are some highlights
of changes since lorg3.2:
- a big man page overhaul: docbook/sgml tools aren't needed for building
them and contents have been revised for apt-rpm (debianisms removed etc)
- fancy new progress meters during rpm transaction 
- lots of code cleanups and reorganization (type correctness, old
obsolete code and various redundancies removed etc)
- some new operations in apt-cache and apt-shell 
- big speed improvement in cache rebuild (~20% on my systems)
- build time options to disable repomd support (to avoid libxml2
dependency) and selinux support 

Known issues: 
- Synaptic doesn't quite grok the new progress meter stuff, doesn't
crash but it looks ugly. Will fix before the next stable release.
- There are some changes that might have broken building with older rpm
systems. Let me know if there are regressions in that area, they are
certainly unintentional.

Give it a whirl and let me know how it spins, but don't use in/package
for production yet :)

	- Panu -




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