[packagekit] PackageKit 0.8.8 released!

Wed May 8 05:21:21 PDT 2013

Hi,

On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:

> Version 0.8.8
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Released: 2013-05-08
>
> Notes:
>  - PackageKit now allow local active users to install signed software
> without
>    prompting for authentication. If you need to change this you will need
> to
>    either install a PolicyKit override or just patch the policy file.
>
> Libraries:
>  - Add some public getters to PkUpdateDetail (Richard Hughes)
>  - Don't use the default main context in sync PkClient methods
> (Giovanni Campagna)
>  - When getting desktop data try the installed prefix, and then the
> system copy (Richard Hughes)
>
> Backends:
>  - alpm: Account for minor API changes in alpm 8 (Jonathan Conder)
>  - alpm: Add GPGDir config option (Jonathan Conder)
>  - alpm: Add new error codes (Jonathan Conder)
>  - alpm: Allow forced install of untrusted packages (Jonathan Conder)
>  - alpm: Fix freedesktop.org bug #44713 (Jonathan Conder)
>  - alpm: Fix locale and proxy support (Jonathan Conder)
>  - alpm: Implement preliminary signature checking (Jonathan Conder)
>  - alpm: Improve and update config file parsing (Jonathan Conder)
>  - alpm: Improve messages and status/progress reports (Jonathan Conder)
>  - alpm: Make use of new package origin API (Jonathan Conder)
>  - alpm: Port configuration logic to new API (Jonathan Conder)
>  - alpm: Port enum constants to new API (Jonathan Conder)
>  - alpm: Port error messagess to new API (Jonathan Conder)
>  - alpm: Port function calls to new API (Jonathan Conder)
>  - alpm: Port public structs to new API (Jonathan Conder)
>  - alpm: Port type names to new API (Jonathan Conder)
>  - alpm: Remove ShowSize option, add VerbosePkgLists (Jonathan Conder)
>  - alpm: Report new informational updates to frontend (Jonathan Conder)
>  - alpm: Update error codes again (Jonathan Conder)
>  - aptcc: Check if we have network only for operations that need it
> (Daniel Nicoletti)
>  - aptcc: Make sure we always use gboolean on g_variant_get calls
> (Daniel Nicoletti)
>  - aptcc: Fix compile warnings (Daniel Nicoletti)
>  - aptcc: Fix repo set data signature (Daniel Nicoletti)
>  - aptcc: Fix sorting of packages and duplicates removal (Daniel Nicoletti)
>  - aptcc: GDebi supports now the installation of multi-arch packages
> (Daniel Nicoletti)
>  - aptcc: Get changelogs like apt-get does (Daniel Nicoletti)
>  - aptcc: Use gboolean for g_variant_get (Daniel Nicoletti)
>  - aptcc: Make sure we do the network test before setting the no
> network error (Daniel Nicoletti)
>  - aptcc: Remove redundant colon (Daniel Nicoletti)
>  - aptcc: Set a friendly message on the changelog text if we failed to
> fetch it (Daniel Nicoletti)
>  - aptcc: Use the right var type (Daniel Nicoletti)
>  - dummy: Fix compile with __attribute__ gnu_printf (Richard Hughes)
>  - entropy: Add compatibility with Entropy 179 (Fabio Erculiani)
>  - entropy: Add forward compatibility with upcoming new Entropy
> Library releases (Fabio Erculiani)
>  - entropy: Fix undefined reference "update" (Fabio Erculiani)
>  - yum: Ensure conf.cache is set before repo.cache is created (Richard
> Hughes)
>  - yum: Ignore errors when removing packages to work out the requires
> list (Richard Hughes)
>  - zif: Do not issue a critical warning when doing WhatProvides (Richard
> Hughes)
>  - zif: Fix compile with __attribute__ gnu_printf (Richard Hughes)
>  - zif: Fix GetDepends when more than one package is specified (Richard
> Hughes)
>  - zif: Respect the filters when doing GetRequires (Richard Hughes)
>  - zif: Use the same speedup used in libzif upstream (Richard Hughes)
>  - zypp: Do not trigger invalid numbers (Stephan Kulow)
>  - zypp: Fix compile with __attribute__ gnu_printf (Stephan Kulow)
>  - zypp: Fix download progress (Stephan Kulow)
>  - zypp: Fix removing packages (Stephan Kulow)
>  - zypp: Ignore system resolvables during install too (Stephan Kulow)
>  - zypp: Ignore @System upgrades during update (Stephan Kulow)
>  - zypp: Instantiate PoolStatusSaver after pool is built (bnc#804054)
> (Michael Andres)
>  - zypp: Less debug in progress functions (Stephan Kulow)
>  - zypp: Merge all backend code into one file, much easier to refactor
> (Stephan Kulow)
>  - zypp: Only allow to update candidates (fdo#61231) (Stephan Kulow)
>  - zypp: Remap PK provides into rpm provides as the zif backend does
> (Stephan Kulow)
>  - zypp: Use the right functions to get solvables (Stephan Kulow)
>
> New Features:
>  - Added Provides property to retrieve which Provides the backend
> supports (Daniel Nicoletti, Richard Hughes)
>  - Expose the transaction flags on the .Transaction object (Richard Hughes)
>  - Use __attribute__ gnu_printf when dealing with varargs (Richard Hughes)
>  - Use G_GNUC_NULL_TERMINATED for pk_backend_spawn_helper (Richard Hughes)
>  - Use PIE to better secure installed tools and also use full RELRO in
> the daemon (Richard Hughes)
>
> Bugfixes:
>  - Add compatibility with newer libarchive versions (Matthias Klumpp,
> Daniel Nicoletti)
>  - Allow clients to call org.freedesktop.DBus.Peer (Richard Hughes)
>  - browser-plugin: Do not crash when running an installed package that
> is upgradable (Richard Hughes)
>  - Do not install the bash-completion code in /etc (Richard Hughes)
>  - Do not use _UTF8Writer when using python3 (Richard Hughes)
>  - Do not write the prepared-updates file if systemd is not available
> (Richard Hughes)
>  - Don't abort the daemon if the client requests a property that does
> not exist (Richard Hughes)
>  - Don't initialize GType system on newer GLib versions (Matthias Klumpp)
>  - Ensure /var/lib/PackageKit exists before using it (Colin Walters)
>  - Fix compiling with --enable-systemd --disable-systemd-updates
> (Dominique Leuenberger)
>  - Fix crash while calling inhibit into systemd-login (Stephan Kulow)
>  - Fixed connman interface (Pekka Lundstrom)
>  - Fix symbol-prefix passed to g-ir-scanner (Evan Nemerson)
>  - Make PackageKit compile on !Linux again (Matthias Klumpp)
>  - Pause for 10 seconds if an error occurred before restarting
> systemd-updates (Richard Hughes)
>  - Remove pk-plugin-clear-system-update as removing the trigger file
> is never required (Richard Hughes)
>  - Remove the prepared-updates file if any relevant state was changed
> (Richard Hughes)
>  - Resolve according to the filters when doing 'pkcon get-requires'
> (Richard Hughes)
>  - Support getting the distro-id from /etc/os-release (Richard Hughes)
>  - Use the correct session method to fix font installation in
> pk-gtk-module (Richard Hughes)
>  - Write a pre-failure status file in case the update transaction
> crashes (Richard Hughes)
>
> Tarballs available here: http://www.packagekit.org/releases/
>
>
Sad, Still no update on " install multiple packages that can ignore already
installed packages" problem.

Regards,
Parag.
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