Listaller 0.5.2 released!
Written for Listaller by Matthias Klumpp on 2011-09-06
Listaller 0.5.2 has been released today.
Please note: We do NOT provide stable API/ABI in the 0.5.x series!
The 0.5.x series is experimental and should not be used in productive environments.
Listaller is still not feature-complete and is under very active development, so expect some rough edges and problems.
As always, here are the changes in this release:
Features:
* Added BinReloc to Listaller core again (Matthias Klumpp)
* binreloc: Experimental support for *BSD (Anders F. Björklund)
* Include the APBuild tool (Matthias Klumpp)
* apbuild: Using new libgee API for accessing keys of a HashMap. (Jan Niklas Hasse)
* First bits of automatic dependency detection (Matthias Klumpp)
* Add options to change default libdir (Matthias Klumpp)
* Add Listaller PackageKit PlugIn (Matthias Klumpp)
* Add possibility to specify libdir prefix in ./prepare (Matthias Klumpp)
* Improved libuild dependency detection (Matthias Klumpp)
* Cleanup: Remove listallerd data files (Matthias Klumpp)
* Provide feeds for some dependencies & sort out standard deps (Matthias Klumpp)
* Store long description in main database (Matthias Klumpp)
* Improved dependency feed handling (Matthias Klumpp)
* Compare package versions if same package is already installed (Matthias Klumpp)
* Use PackageKit for dependency installing (Matthias Klumpp)
* Implement basic feed-dependency downloading & extracting (Matthias Klumpp)
* Always prefer native distribution packages (Matthias Klumpp)
* Add methods to register dependencies in database (Matthias Klumpp)
* Check the database if dependency is already installed (Matthias Klumpp)
* Install a few manpages (Matthias Klumpp)
* Include the patchelf utility, but disable it (Matthias Klumpp)
* appcompile: Support CMake & arguments (Matthias Klumpp)
* Various improvements to make dependency search faster (Matthias Klumpp)
* Automagically update .desktop file paths, even if no var is set (Matthias Klumpp)
* Use own stat()-based mechanism to look for libraries. (Matthias Klumpp)
* Automatically close the software-database (Matthias Klumpp)
* Add /usr/lib/
* Apply a set of installation speed-improvements (Matthias Klumpp)
* Create new PkResolver to perform resolve actions for native pkgs (Matthias Klumpp)
* Apply parts of the dependency-
missing in PackageKit. (Matthias Klumpp)
* Some preparations for direct PkBackend usage (Matthias Klumpp)
* Added ugly method to request GPG passwords (Matthias Klumpp)
* Make cmake install LIBDIR multiarch-aware (Matthias Klumpp)
* Add a Fedora spec file template that builds listaller (Richard Hughes)
* Fix up some warnings in the PK plugin (Richard Hughes)
* plugin: Use the correct function names to fix PackageKit (Richard Hughes)
* plugin: Split the lists once and early for speed (Richard Hughes)
* plugin: Correctly connect ListallerManager object with callbacks (Matthias Klumpp)
* plugin: Set a log domain so the packagekitd daemon knows what's printing messages (Richard Hughes)
* plugin: Only rescan the application list after modifying roles (Richard Hughes)
Specifications:
* Updated dependency-extra list format (is now RFC822-style) (Matthias Klumpp)
* Use type-specific dependencies instead of dependencies on "files" (Matthias Klumpp)
* Move state information to /var/lib (Matthias Klumpp)
* Implement a dependency-id (Matthias Klumpp)
Bugfixes:
* Remove internal libc ELF headers from vLDD (Matthias Klumpp)
* Depend runapp on listaller-glib, allows parallel builds (Matthias Klumpp)
* Remove \r's from nl translation (Matthias Klumpp)
* Compile with _FILE_OFFSET_
* Fix uninstaller error handling (Matthias Klumpp)
* Adjust to new PackageKit 0.7 API (Matthias Klumpp)
* Register IPK mime type again (Matthias Klumpp)
* Use PREFIXDIR in Listaller settings (Matthias Klumpp)
* Fix database application listing (Matthias Klumpp)
* Bugfix: Installation fails if there are no dependencies defined (Matthias Klumpp)
* Build in Debug mode by default (for development versions) (Matthias Klumpp)
* Process variables _after_ everything was installed (Matthias Klumpp)
* Consider all dependencies as satisfied when in testmode (Matthias Klumpp)
* Fix deadlock when application is registered (Matthias Klumpp)
* libuild: Fix installing all files into one directory (Matthias Klumpp)
* Display warning if dependency idname or full_name is empty (Matthias Klumpp)
* plugin: Fix sigsegv on loading applist (Matthias Klumpp)
* plugin: Fix pointer deferencing to make package and files removal work (Richard Hughes)
* plugin: Ensure the transaction gets properly finished if listaller can handle all the ids (Richard Hughes)
