[packagekit] PackageKit 0.6.5 released!

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Wed Jun 2 03:11:01 PDT 2010


Today I released PackageKit 0.6.5.

Version 0.6.5
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2010-06-02

Notes:
 - Added pacman-glib backend (Jonathan Conder)

Translations:
 - Updates to Chinese (Taiwan) (zh_TW) translation (zerng07)
 - Updates to Danish (da) translation (kristho)
 - Updates to Finnish (fi) translation (vpv)

Libraries:
 - glib: Add some new PkTask methods that handle the Media and Eula
callbacks (Richard Hughes)
 - qt: Add Q_ENUMS to DaemonError (Adrien Bustany)
 - python: Fix a typo in format_string (Sebastian Heinlein)

Backends:
 - APT: Adapt patch for name searching to the 0.6 API (Sebastian Heinlein)
 - APT: Allow to do an AND search for multiple package names
(Sebastian Heinlein)
 - APT: Make sure to use format_string consequently on every output
(Sebastian Heinlein)
 - APT: Show a sub progress for package downloads (Sebastian Heinlein)
 - APT: Use UTF-8 as default encoding and allow to write unicode to
stdout (Sebastian Heinlein)
 - entropy: Make backend working with latest Entropy releases (Fabio Erculiani)
 - pacman: Add basic transaction infrastructure (Jonathan Conder)
 - pacman: Add cancellation infrastructure (Jonathan Conder)
 - pacman: Add dependency lookup (Jonathan Conder)
 - pacman: Add error reporting infrastructure (Jonathan Conder)
 - pacman: Add package-related methods and helpers (Jonathan Conder)
 - pacman: Add searching support (Jonathan Conder)
 - pacman: Add support for installing packages (Jonathan Conder)
 - pacman: Add support for managing repos (Jonathan Conder)
 - pacman: Add support for package groups (Jonathan Conder)
 - pacman: Add support for removing packages (Jonathan Conder)
 - pacman: Add support for updating packages (Jonathan Conder)
 - yum: Attempt to use removable disk repos if they exist at backend
startup (Richard Hughes)
 - yum: Catch and ignore the socket exception on oddball systems.
Fixes rh#596779
 - yum: Do not abort init when Yum.conf does not contain some required
keys (Richard Hughes)
 - yum: Fix up the filter check when doing GetRepoList(). Fixes rh#598697
 - yum: Remove all the MediaManager implementations and write a small
GIO based callback (Richard Hughes)
 - yum: The transaction root is not set at _init(), so we have to
re-query the root when we start each action (Richard Hughes)
 - yum: Use the system installed version of the zif accelerator (Richard Hughes)
 - zypp: Detect and advertise from /etc/meego-release (Peter J Zhu)
 - zypp: Re-factor to pass PkBackend around (Michael Meeks)
 - zypp: Re-work install_packages_thread (Michael Meeks)
 - zypp: Unify code used to generate the list of updates (Michael Meeks)

New Features:
 - Add --force argument to pkcon refresh (Michael Meeks)
 - Show the MediaChangeRequired signals in pkmon (Richard Hughes)
 - Use the new PkTask API in pkcon so we can deal with Media and Eula
queries (Richard Hughes)

Bugfixes:
 - Build conditional BUILD_ZIF needs to be at the top level (Michael Meeks)
 - Fix problem whereby the terminal wouldn't return data to scanf from
a read (Michael Meeks)
 - Fix up several daemon thinkos when a client tries to set a root
other than '/' (Richard Hughes)

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

Thanks to all those who made this possible.

Richard.



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