[packagekit] PackageKit 0.7.6 released!

Matthias Klumpp matthias at tenstral.net
Tue Aug 21 07:34:47 PDT 2012


Version 0.7.6
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Released: 2012-08-21

Notes:
 - Lots of nice bugfixes, and a very good idea for stable distros that
   are already shipping PackageKit 0.7.x

Libraries:
 - glib: Don't update the transaction role to 'unknown' (Richard Hughes)

Backends:
 - aptcc: Don't use tempfile with fixed name for conffiles (Matthias Klumpp)
 - alpm: add new error codes (Jonathan Conder)
 - alpm: add GPGDir config option (Jonathan Conder)
 - alpm: port to new API (Jonathan Conder)
 - alpm: report new informational updates to frontend (Jonathan Conder)
 - alpm: implement preliminary signature checking (Jonathan Conder)
 - alpm: remove ShowSize option, add VerbosePkgLists (Jonathan Conder)
 - alpm: fix freedesktop.org bug #44713 (Jonathan Conder)
 - alpm: fix locale and proxy support (Jonathan Conder)
 - alpm: allow forced install of untrusted packages (Jonathan Conder)
 - yum: Don't return an obscure error if the rpmdb returns a result it
can't later find (Richard Hughes)

New features:
 - Add GStreamer 1.0 support to the PackageKit plugin (Richard Hughes)

Bugfixes:
 - Ignore "accept-eula" in pk-transaction-run (Gary Ching-Pang Lin)
 - Check for CancelBackgroundTransactions setting again (Matthias Klumpp)
 - Fix a crash where NetworkManager is restarted whilst packagekitd is
running (Richard Hughes)
 - Drop the unused polkit-backend-1 check from configure as it's gone
upstream (Richard Hughes)
 - Fix segfault in pkcon when user does ctrl-d at the package prompt
(Richard Hughes)
 - Inhibit shutdown when the package manager is locked (Richard Hughes)
 - Fix several return values in pkcon when there is an error (Richard Hughes)
 - Allow the user to specify standard GNU help options (Richard Hughes)
 - Do not allow the client to overwrite files when downloading
packages (Richard Hughes)

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

Matthias.


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