New development release

[Richard Bos]

Hi Panu,

it's good to see that keep on improving apt-rpm!

Op Saturday 16 June 2007 23:48:06 schreef Panu Matilainen:
> What's new since 0.5.15lorg3.90:
>
> * support for sqlite repomd metadata, automatically used if present

What is the advantage of using sqlite for repomd data?  What is used nowadays?

> * upped cache limits for todays bigger repositories
> * improved multilib setup, runtime configurable
> * various repomd related optimizations
> * several large memory leaks plugged
> * installation progress API
> * add API for package changelog and file listing access, implement
>    access methods in Lua-interface, apt-cache and apt-shell
> * various code cleanups
> * known regressions
>    - "apt-get update" re-downloads unchanged indexes

Hmm, will this be hard to fix?  For me this is a showstopper.

>    - missing repomd indexes not always handled cleanly (assert failures)
>    - progress meter doesn't show percentage of the complete operation
>    - sqlite(-devel) is required for building apt-rpm with repomd support
> for now



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