[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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