[packagekit] Zif 0.1.4 released!

[Richard Hughes]

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 0.1.4
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Released: 2011-01-07

Notes:
 - Lots of nice bugfixes in this release.
 - Zif does now not read or write files owned by yum at the request of
   the yum developers. This means Zif can now stand on it's own, and
   does not require yum to to installed on the target system.

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

New Features:
 - Add yumdb_allow_write to control yumdb access (Richard Hughes)
 - Construct our own problem description from the rpmProblem object
(Richard Hughes)

Bugfixes:
 - Always get the ChangeLog data even if there is no updateinfo data
(Richard Hughes)
 - Always set the transaction progress to writing in remove (Richard Hughes)
 - A mirrorlist does not have to have a 'repo' header, so do not fail
bare files (Richard Hughes)
 - Correctly identify comps groups with no descriptions (Richard Hughes)
 - Do not parse yum.conf by default on request of the yum developers
(Richard Hughes)
 - Do not read data from the yumdb by default (Richard Hughes)
 - Do not use deprecated low level methods such as rpmdbOpen() (Richard Hughes)
 - Ensure we create the log file if it doesn't already exist (Richard Hughes)
 - Ensure we set a prefix if one is set when we load the rpmdb (Richard Hughes)
 - Fix up the initrd and stage2 content types when using rawhide
(Richard Hughes)
 - Free the interator before closing the database in ZifStoreLocal
(Richard Hughes)
 - Generate ordering for transactions (Panu Matilainen)
 - If for whatever reason the percentage goes backwards, only print
one warning (Richard Hughes)
 - Ignore redirects when downloading files (Richard Hughes)
 - Install zif-delta.h as we're using it in public headers now (Richard Hughes)
 - Parse the 'info' rpm verbosity string correctly (Richard Hughes)
 - Print the output of 'zif get-categories' in a nicer way (Richard Hughes)
 - Return an error when the rpm transaction didn't ever get to the
writing phase (Richard Hughes)
 - RPMSENSE_PROVIDES and RPMSENSE_CONFLICTS dont exist in headers
anymore (Panu Matilainen)
 - Show the scriptlet standard out and error on the command line
(Richard Hughes)
 - Try to detect invalid mirrorlist and metalink files (Richard Hughes)
 - Use a canonicalized path in the self test code to appease librpm
(Richard Hughes)
 - Use headerFree() instead of headerUnlink() (Panu Matilainen)
 - Use headerGetFoo() helpers to save a bit of manual work (Panu Matilainen)
 - Use our own lock file by default, not /var/run/yum.pid (Richard Hughes)
 - Use rpmtsCheck() before running the transaction (Richard Hughes)
 - Use xml:base when looking for sources for packages to deal with
koji (Richard Hughes)
 - We can't trust the return value of rpmtsCheck (Panu Matilainen,
Richard Hughes)

Richard.