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authorAllan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>2018-07-27 11:05:51 +1000
committerAllan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>2018-07-27 11:43:39 +1000
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Release v5.1.1
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
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VERSION DESCRIPTION
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+5.1.1 - Allow full path including root prefix to be passed to
+ --overwrite
+ - Revert deprecation of --root
+ - Document comment syntax restrictions in pacman.conf
+ - makepkg:
+ - handle pre-existing directories when checking for write
+ permissions
+ - reduce restrictions on pkgver in depends listings (FS#58776)
+ - permit versioned optdepends
+ - remove unintended chmod of $BUILDDIR (FS#58790)
+ - fix issue when $startdir was not an absolute path (FS#58865)
+ - fix syntax error when $pkgname is empty
+ - fix --nocolor being passed to pacman (FS#58820)
+ - fix issues with trap handling
+ - fix several issues with debug packages (signing, printing of
+ package names, clearing of global package options, source
+ file inclusion)
+ - fix --help text for --packagelist
+ - pacman-conf: Fix detection of Usage option
5.1.0 - Add new --overwrite option and deprecate --force. This accepts a
glob pattern with far more control than the widely abused force
option which mostly just causes issues (FS#31549)