[Apt-Rpm] New development release (apt-0.5.15lorg3.94)

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
Fri Jan 11 12:15:41 PST 2008


Here goes Yet Another development release, executive summary of 
changes since 0.5.15lorg3.93 follows:

     * Progress meter cosmetics improvements
     * Fix crash on empty transactions (rhbz#419811)
     * Make private headers really private
     * Make apt.cron a bit more quiet (Pierre Ossman)
     * Avoid downloading same source package multiple times (Michael Vogt)
     * Fix garbled output in text progress (Ryan Burns)
     * Avoid alignment traps on ARM (Ryan Burns)
     * Fix http password handling (Ryan Burns)
     * Add support for 64bit MIPS (Ryan Burns)
     * Remove support for ancient /var/state/apt directory use (Ryan Burns)
     * Some repomd sqlite extension optimizations
     * Improved failure handling for repomd
     * Improved obsoletes handling on multilib systems
     * Portability fixes (David Halik)
     * Bunch of code correctness fixes (type-pedantry etc)
     * Fix building with current GCC 4.3 snapshot
     * Check for rpm features, not versions
     * Fix build against rpm.org HEAD (Ralf Corsepius, me)
     * Fix build against rpm5.org 4.x versions (hopefully)

Available from the usual spot at http://apt-rpm.org/testing/, sha1sum:
9fdf30aed4f3eae0fe466e7b78b16dffa6fbe48f  apt-0.5.15lorg3.94.tar.bz2

This time I think we're *really* getting close to a new stable release 
(but knock wood ;) I've still some minor details like making installations 
with -q actually quiet again on my plate, but the issues are mostly 
"cosmetical".

Due to popular demand, I added some compatibility checks for rpm5.org 4.x 
versions (5.x is more work due to header interfaces changing completely 
and is not going to make it to this release), please check that it 
actually builds now. Mind you, not all features of rpm5.org >= 4.4.7 are 
supported but the "traditional" bits might have a fair chance at working 
out of the box now, unless I've managed to completely f*** up the checks. 
Let me know ;)

 	- Panu -







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