[packagekit] Zif 0.1.5 released!

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Mon Jan 24 08:10:41 PST 2011


Zif is a simple yum-compatible library that only provides read-write
access to the rpm database and the Fedora metadata for PackageKit.

Tarballs available here: http://www.packagekit.org/releases/

Version 0.1.5
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Released: 2011-01-24

Notes:
 - A few nice bugfixes in this release.
 - Zif now reports the speed of installing and downloading.

Translations:
 - Update Arabic translation (karim)
 - Update Czech translation (fri)
 - Update Frech translation (mathdabomb)
 - Update Malay translation (farizluqman)
 - Update Spanish (Chile) translation (rahermosillac)

New Features:
 - Add a default value of the rpmdb prefix in the config file (Richard Hughes)
 - Add some example programs for people learning the API (Richard Hughes)
 - Add zif_state_set_speed() to be able to track the speed (Richard Hughes)
 - Allow specifying an array of possible content types for download
(Richard Hughes)
 - Allow the user to specify the upgrade type using the zif CLI (Richard Hughes)
 - Enable the verbose depsolve if the environment variable is set
(Richard Hughes)
 - Report the disk speed when installing and removing packages (Richard Hughes)
 - Set the file download speed in ZifDownload (Richard Hughes)
 - Show the transaction speed in the CLI tool (Richard Hughes)
 - Verify the package content type and completed size when downloading
(Richard Hughes)

Bugfixes:
 - Avoid a critical warning when cancelling a GetPackages method
(Richard Hughes)
 - Do WhatProvides() on each dependancy when in remove (Richard Hughes)
 - Increase the default metadata age to 7 days (Richard Hughes)
 - Return a specific error early if the destination device is out of
space (Richard Hughes)
 - Return the filename in the error message if the rpm verify failed
(Richard Hughes)
 - Upstream grubby defaults to /etc/grub.conf, so change this for
Fedora (Richard Hughes)

Richard.



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