[packagekit] PackageKit 0.6.12 released!

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Tue Feb 1 03:24:04 PST 2011


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

Version 0.6.12
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Released: 2011-02-01

Notes:
 - There is a new 'Speed' API addition optionally available for backends.
 - Multiple 'default' backends can be specified to allow fallbacks.

Translations:
 - Update Bulgarian translation (al_shopov)
 - Update Czech translation (fri)
 - Update Panjabi translation (aalam)
 - Update Spanish translation (aloriel)
 - Update Swedish translation (yeager)

Libraries:
 - glib: Allow the service pack self tests to run by setting the temp
directory (Richard Hughes)
 - glib: Avoid spamming lots of low level debugging to
.xsession-errors. Fixes rh#668303 (Richard Hughes)
 - glib: Check sscanf() returned the correct number of items before
using the answer (Richard Hughes)
 - glib: Do not return distro-specific id's whilst testing, to fix
'make check' on Debian (Richard Hughes)
 - glib: Ensure we test for and always run the
self-check-socket-program in 'make check' (Richard Hughes)
 - glib: Only use g_time_val_from_iso8601() when we have a valid
ISO8601 value (Richard Hughes)
 - packagekit-qt: Do not cause a build error when building with -j4
(Richard Hughes)

Backends:
 - aptcc: Fix compile with GLib 2.24 (Matthias Klumpp)
 - aptcc: Sanitize file descriptor handling (Matthias Klumpp)
 - aptcc: Use a pty rather than a pipe for writing to apt (Colin Watson)
 - conary: Add get_roles so pkcon correctly reports all supported
commands (Jesse Zhang)
 - conary: Fix get-details to really output the licenses (Jesse Zhang)
 - conary: Fix get-files (Jesse Zhang)
 - conary: Fix ~installed filter (Jesse Zhang)
 - conary: Fix installed filter (Jesse Zhang)
 - conary: Fix refresh-cache (Jesse Zhang)
 - conary: Fix resolve to not do repo_query if trove is found locally
(Jesse Zhang)
 - conary: Fix resolve to show all versions of installed pkgs (Jesse Zhang)
 - conary: Fix search-details (Jesse Zhang)
 - conary: Fix search-group (Jesse Zhang)
 - conary: Fix search-name (Jesse Zhang)
 - conary: Fix search to show all versions of installed pkgs (Jesse Zhang)
 - conary: Space means AND for search-name and search-details (Jesse Zhang)
 - entropy: Fix compatibility with newer Entropy releases (Fabio Erculiani)
 - entropy: Fix crash in dependencies removal calculation releases
(Fabio Erculiani)
 - yum: Correct three syntax errors that could cause a backtrace
(Richard Hughes)
 - yum: Do not attempt to call yum.repos twice when using RHN (Richard Hughes)
 - yum: Do not block the update list on infrastructure packages it
breaks auto-updating (Richard Hughes)
 - yum: Ensure the category data is valid UTF8 (Richard Hughes)
 - yum: Update the cached comps group list when enabling of disabling
a repo. Fixes rh#629049 (Richard Hughes)
 - zif: Do not crash when returning the package untrusted error (Richard Hughes)
 - zif: Ensure we set the correct key for the metadata_expire value
(Richard Hughes)
 - zif: Return the correct error when a transaction needs further
authorisation (Richard Hughes)
 - zif: Support the new speed property (Richard Hughes)
 - zypp: Consider autoremove in remove_packages (Zhang Qiang)
 - zypp: Don't send package signal in DownloadProgressReportReceiver
(Zhang Qiang)
 - zypp: Erase system resolvables in zypp_build_pool (Zhang Qiang)
 - zypp: Implement download packages (Zhang Qiang)
 - zypp: Include system repo when install local rpm (Zhang Qiang)
 - zypp: Refresh cache before searching (Zhang Qiang)
 - zypp: Support download source RPM packages (Zhang Qiang)

New Features:
 - Add speed python backend method (Anders F Bjorklund)
 - Allow the user to specify a comma delimited list of default
backends (Richard Hughes)
 - Provide a hook so spawned backends can report speed (Richard Hughes)

Bugfixes:
 - Do not enable command not found debugging by default. Fixes
rh#666254 (Richard Hughes)
 - Explictly include GIO in LDADD to fix a compile error on Debian
(Matthias Klumpp, Richard Hughes)
 - Fix calling pk_client_helper_start() with no environment set (Richard Hughes)
 - Fix LP#591474 bug which caused a crash when the Section() of a
package was NULL (Daniel Nicoletti)
 - Only try to populate the command list in pkcon after the PkControl
command has finished (Richard Hughes)
 - pkcon: check PK error in pk_console_resolve_package (Zhang Qiang)
 - Set client locale to LC_MESSAGES rather than LC_ALL (Colin Watson)

Richard.



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