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@@ -7,33 +7,35 @@ VERSION DESCRIPTION
select the correct architecture
- Installing packages with -U can handle installing
dependencies, conflict resolution and replacing packages
+ (FS#3492, FS#5798)
- can upgrade the system and install a new package using
- "pacman -Syu <pkg>"
+ "pacman -Syu <pkg>" (FS#15581)
- new -D/--database operation for modifying package install
- reasons
+ reasons (FS#12950)
- new --print and --print-format options to output information
- in suitable format for wrapper scripts
+ in suitable format for wrapper scripts (FS#14208)
- only extract new entries when updating a repo database
- - show "Required by" in -Sii output
+ - show "Required by" in -Sii output (FS#16244)
- -U and -R options always ask for confirmation
- - allow -Qo to perform a functional 'which'
+ - allow -Qo to perform a functional 'which' (FS#8798)
- cache cleaning cleans all directories, not just first
- cleanupdelta: new utility to help remove unused deltas from
a repo database
+ - bash completion: rewrite for size and performance (FS#16630)
- repo-add: handle removing the final package from a repo
- rankmirrors: rewrite using bash
- vercmp: does not link to libalpm to prevent upgrade issues
- makepkg:
- automatically aborts on any errors during packaging
- changelogs are now included via the "changelog" variable
- - can override pkgver, pkgrel and arch in split packages
+ - override pkgver, pkgrel and arch in split packages (FS#15955)
- repackaging without a package() function is deprecated
- stricter syntax checking for backup and optdepends entries
- file stripping options are configurable
- New --pkg flag to allow building specific package(s) from
- split PKGBUILDs.
- - build() function is now optional
- - warns about reference to the build root in a package
+ split PKGBUILDs (FS#15956)
+ - build() function is now optional (FS#15147)
+ - warn about reference to build root in a package (FS#14751)
- configure source package destination with SRCPKGDEST
- major internal refactoring of handling tests ("[" to "[[")
- contrib/pactree: print reverse dependency tree