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List of user visible changes in the release 1.16.7
-- Improvement
* templates/kde5 - Silvan Calarco
templates/python - Davide Madrisan
Update to templates.
* conf files - Silvan Calarco
Minor improvements.
-- Bugfix
* lib/libnetwork.lib - Silvan Calarco
Support for git repositories which don't have '.git' in their url.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
List of user visible changes in the release 1.16.6 - "Tuscany" release
-- Improvement
* templates/kde5 - Davide Madrisan
New template for KDE Framework 5 modules.
* templates/ghc - Davide Madrisan
Improve the template and fix the indentation.
* Minor improvements - see the ChangeLog.
-- Bugfix
* plugins/pck-update - Silvan Calarco
Stricter checks on buildreqs with explicit arch.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
List of user visible changes in the release 1.16.5 - "End-of-year" release
-- Improvement
* templates/ghc - Silvan Calarco
New template for ghc modules.
* pck-update - Silvan Calarco
Specify target_cpu when installing build requirements for x86_64
multiarch support.
* spec-create - Davide Madrisan
Create a correct %build block in the specfile generated from tarballs
that do not provide any 'configure' script but only an 'autogen,sh' one.
Feature asked by Silvan Calarco.
* spec-create - Davide Madrisan
Honour the package version set by the user at command line when generating
a specfile from a git repository.
Feature asked by Silvan Calarco.
* pck-update - Silvan Calarco
Support for package.arch specfile build requirement.
When this form of requirement is detected it is converted to package@arch
as required by smart.
-- Bugfix
* templates/python - Silvan Calarco
Remove unexisting option '--single-version-externally-managed'.
* lib/libnetwork.lib - Silvan Calarco
.git suffix is not optional when cloning from http/https urls.
* pck-update - Davide Madrisan
Fix the way 'package.generate_name()' return the package path when called
without the option '-p'.
Bug reported by Silvan Calarco.
* conf/04-rpmbuild-format-unpackaged-filelist.conf - Davide Madrisan
The translation rules for the unpackaged files has been reworked for
supporting the x86_64 architecture.
Issue pointed out by Silvan Calarco.
* conf/04-rpmbuild-format-unpackaged-filelist.conf - Davide Madrisan
The translation rules for Python 2.7 and Python 3 have been updated.
* tests/{test01_pkgquality,test02_pkgsecurity} - Davide Madrisan
Fix an obsolete and now unsupported syntax for 'find -perm' that made some
quality and security tests fail.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
List of user visible changes in the release 1.16.4 - "Korbielow" release
-- Improvement
* templates/ocaml-libs, plugins/spec-create - Davide Madrisan
New autospec template for OCaml libraries.
* conf/02-specfile-rpm-groups.conf - Davide Madrisan:
Add specific rpm groups for OCaml libraries and development packages.
* conf/02-specfile-rpm-macros-ocaml.conf - Davide Madrisan:
New configuration file for the OCaml (library) modules.
* italian manpage - Davide Madrisan:
Document the new template ocaml-libs.
* pck-update, spec-create - Silvan Calarco:
New options '--packager-fullname' and '--packager-email'.
-- Bugfix
* tests/test01_pkgquality - Davide Madrisan:
Minor fixes to better support OCaml libraries.
* pck-update - Silvan Calarco
Don't clone from git repository at every build is source with current
version already exists.
* Several minor bugfixes.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
List of user visible changes in the release 1.16.3
-- Improvement
* templates/web - Silvan Calarco:
New template for web application packages.
-- Bugfix
* lib/libapse.lib - Silvan Calarco:
Fix and simplify update check at sourceforge.net.
* lib/libspec.lib - Davide Madrisan, Silvan Calarco:
Various fixes.
* plugins/spec-create - Davide Madrisan:
Fix package version detection of source tarballs created by cloning a git
site.
* default configuration - Davide Madrisan:
Allow URLs beginning by 'git://' in 'source0'.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
List of user visible changes in the release 1.16.2
-- Improvement
* lib/libspec.lib - Davide Madrisan:
Some specfiles have syntax errors that are not correctly reported by the
command 'rpm -q --specfile --specedit <specfile>'. Try to workaround this
problem. Make better error reportings.
-- Update
* lib/libspec.lib - Davide Madrisan:
New function 'specfile.check_syntax()'.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
List of user visible changes in the release 1.16.1
-- Improvement
* po/it/Makefile - Davide Madrisan:
Check 'autospec.po' for untranslated strings.
-- Bugfix
* po/it/autospec.po - Davide Madrisan:
Add a missing translation.
* lib/* - Davide Madrisan:
Get rid of the clashing variables 'me'. This fix soòe debug messages.
-- Update
* lib/libtranslate.lib - Davide Madrisan:
New library libtranslate.lib.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
List of user visible changes in the release 1.16.0
-- Improvement
* autospec, plugins, libraries, makefiles - Davide Madrisan:
The translation framework has been completely rewritten.
The partial translation files (.po)i have been removedi.
A global .pot file is now dinamically created and merged with the file
autospec.po at every build.
* lib/* - Davide Madrisan:
Do not load a library previously loaded by another module.
-- Update
* autospec - Davide Madrisan:
Remove the obsolete option '-r|--colorize'.
-- Bugfix
* Makefile - Davide Madrisan:
'check' target: also check the syntax of library files.
* conf/03-apse.conf - Silvan Calarco:
Fix sed expression not to match trailing spaces in:
. http://directory.fsf.org
. http://launchpad.net
* autospec, plugins/* - Davide Madrisan:
Rework the logic of the command-line options parser to let it work in
conjunction with the late load of the configuration files.
This fixes two bugs introduced in v1.14.3 and noticed by Silvan Calarco.)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
List of user visible changes in the release 1.14.3
-- Improvement
* autospec, all the plugins - Davide Madrisan:
Add the option '-C|--config' for selecting a different user configuration
file or list of user configuration files (wilcards are allowed).
(Feature asked by Silvan Calarco and required by openmamba webbuild)
-- Update
* autospec - Davide Madrisan:
Add more debug messages.
-- Bug Fixes
* autospec - Davide Madrisan:
Fix parsing of command line arguments containing spaces.
(Bun introduced in version 1.14.2)
* lib/libapse.lib - Silvan Calarco:
Fix some version comparison errors by specifying numbers base.
* pck-update - Davide Madrisan:
Fix a string translation by adding the missing '$' prefix.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
List of user visible changes in the release 1.14.2
-- Improvement
* autospec, autospec,conf, plugins, libmsgmng.lib - Davide Madrisan:
Completely rewrite the code that manage colorized output.
Colors are no more hardcoded in libmsgmng.lib but located in the color
scheme files:
/etc/autospec.d/color-theme.<color-scheme>
A user can add a customized color theme by adding the file:
~/.autospec.d/color-theme.<color-scheme>
-- Update
* autospec - Davide Madrisan:
Deprecate the option '--colorize'.
This option is now replaced by the option '--colors':
--colors <color-theme>
* italian manpage - Davide Madrisan:
Update italian manpage and document the new extensions.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
List of user visible changes in the release 1.14.1 - _TO*Hacklab release
-- Improvement
* spec-create - Davide Madrisan:
New option '--changeglog'.
* templates/standard - Davide Madrisan:
Add a devel subpackage.
* lib/libmsgmng.lib - Davide Madrisan:
Allow users to modify ESC, CRIT, NOTE, WARN, EXIT, and NORM color codes.
(A feature asked by Silvan for the openmamba webbuild service).
-- Bug Fixes
* pck-update - Silvan Calarco:
Action 6: restore build requirement detection for *.so requirements.
* config-getvar, lib/libcfg.lib - Davide Madrisan:
Minor fix: incorrect list of default files in the help message.
-- Update
* po/it/* - Davide Madrisan:
The italian translation files have been updated.
* conf/autospec.conf - Davide Madrisan:
Better documentation for terminal (and web) color setup.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
List of user visible changes in the release 1.14.0
-- Improvement
* Makefile - Davide Madrisan:
Modify the 'dist' directive to allow 'make dist', 'make dist-rpm', and
'make dist-rpm-install' from a cloned git archive.
* pck-update - Davide Madrisan:
Action 3,5: support package update from git repositories.
-- Bug Fixes
* autospec.spec - Davide Madrisan:
Add 'make' in the list of build requirement.
* plugins/pck-update.in - Davide Madrisan:
Support URL ('Source' tag in the specfile) containing the letter '&'.
(Problem pointed out by Silvan Calarco.)
* pck-update - Silvan Calarco:
Try to avoid reporting package requirements set with 'Requires:' as build
requirements to avoid breaking stage1 builds and causing unneeded circular
dependencies.
(Patch by Silvan Calarco)
* lib/libnetwork.lib - Davide Madrisan:
Minor fix in 'curl.download()'.
* po/it/spec-create.po - Davide Madrisan:
Add missing translations.
-- Update
* autospec.spec - Davide Madrisan:
Make the specfile more distro-agnostic.
Update the list of requirements for subpackages.
* tests/test01_pkgquality - Davide Madrisan:
Do not use the operator '|&' to be at least bash 3.2 compatible.
* lib/libnetwork.lib - Davide Madrisan:
Clone the entire git repository when the option '--preserve-dot-git' is
selected by user.
* lib/libnetwork.lib - Davide Madrisan:
Print an informational message before creating the source compressed
tarball. This may take a while.
* lib/libnetwork.lib - Davide Madrisan:
New helper function: 'git.download()'.
* po/it/pck-update.po - Davide Madrisan:
Updated.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
List of user visible changes in the release 1.12.5
-- Improvement
* lib/libnetwork.lib - Davide Madrisan:
git.create_tarball: execute 'git clone --depth=1' insted of 'git clone' to
only clone the last commit instead of the whole repository.
(Thanks to Silvan Calarco for spotting this.)
* spec-create - Davide Madrisan:
specfile.create: modify the 'Source' tag by including a parsable git URL.
(Feature asked by Silvan Calarco.)
-- Bug Fixes
* lib/libnetwork.lib - Davide Madrisan:
git.create_tarball: fix a typo (it_branch --> $git_branch) in the code that
creates the comment "## GITSOURCE".
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
List of user visible changes in the release 1.12.4
-- Improvement
* test/test01_pkgquality - Davide Madrisan:
Add the mime type of the files shown in the warning and error messages.
* spec-create - Davide Madrisan:
Display in the help the creation of a specfile for git-based projects.
* spec-create, lib/libnetwork.lib - Madrisan:
Add aupport for git branches in spec-create by adding the new options
'--git-branch' and '--preserve-dot-git'.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
List of user visible changes in the release 1.12.3
-- Improvement
* pck-update - Davide Madrisan:
Action 4: allow developers to update the distribution-ID when updating the
release number.
Example: 1mamba --> 2mamba2
(when DISTRO_rpm="mamba2" is set in the configuration files).
* libapse.lib, conf/03-apse.conf - Stefano Cotta Ramusino:
Fix scraping values and add new sites
-- Update
* conf/02-specfile-formatting-rules.conf - Davide Madrisan:
New default value for 'library_name_structure' ("").
The name of library packages has no predefined structure.
The previous value ("^lib") was unnecessarily too strict.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
List of user visible changes in the release 1.12.2
-- Improvement
* pck-update - Davide Madrisan:
Skip unnecessary checks when pck-update is invoked with the option
'--list-check'.
* pck-update - Davide Madrisan:
Action 6: new option '--update-autobuildreq' which replace a block
'AUTOBUILDREQ-BEGIN' ... 'AUTOBUILDREQ-END' by an updated one.
-- Update
* templates/kde4
Update the list of requirements and build requirements.
* italian manpage - Davide Madrisan:
Improve the examples for 'autospec -u'.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
List of user visible changes in the release 1.12.1
-- Update
* conf/02-specfile-formatting-rules.conf - Davide Madrisan:
Update 'source0_name_structure' to allow *.tar.xz archives.
* conf/06-security-system-library-paths.conf - Davide Madrisan:
allowed_libdirs: replace /opt/kde4/lib with /opt/kde/lib to avoid false
positives when scanning kde4 packages.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
List of user visible changes in the release 1.12.0
-- Bug Fixes
* pck-update - Davide Madrisan:
Stop pck-update execution with an error code when 'specfile.newrelease()'
reports an error.
(Bug reported by Silvan Calarco.)
* autospec.conf - Davide Madrisan:
format_unpackaged_file_list: fix rpm variable expansion for /lib and
/lib64.
(As usual: bug reported by Silvan Calarco.)
* templates/{library,standard,standard-daemon} - Davide Madrisan:
Add the missing requirement: "Requires(preun): %{__install_info}"
* spec-create - Davide Madrisan:
Select makefile as build_techology when a makefile (downcase letters) or a
GNUmalefile is found, not only a Makefile (with a capital letter).
(Bug reported by Silvan Calarco.)
* pck-update - Davide Madrisan:
The option '--ignore-test' works now as expected.
-- Update
* configuration files - Davide Madrisan:
autospec.conf has been splitted into several configuration files located
in the directory /etc/autospec.d/
* po/it/*.po - Davide Madrisan:
The italian translation files have been updated.
* tests/test01_pkgquality, tests/test02_pkgsecurity - Davide Madrisan:
Rework output by adding the numbering of tests.
* test/test00_specsyntax - Davide Madrisan:
New test file 'test00_specsyntax'.
Move code to check specfiles from 'pck-update' (action 4) to this new test
file.
-- Improvement
* pck-update - Davide Madrisan:
Check specfiles for CR and CRLF line terminators.
They can mislead the specfile parser.
(Issue reported by Silvan Calarco.)
* tests/test01_pkgquality - Davide Madrisan:
New test: check for libraries with undefined symbols after relocation.
* lib/libtest.lib - Davide Madrisan:
New library containing the test framwork code and functions.
* test/test{00_specsyntax,01_pkgquality,02_pkgsecurity} - Davide Madrisan:
Unify the output of all the modules' test.
-- Documentation
* TODO - Davide Madrisan:
Remove out of date stuff out of date stuff.
* autospec-it-HOWTO - Davide Madrisan:
Remove this document (mostly obsolete).
* italian manpage:
Update/improve the italian manpage by merging part of the italian HOWTO.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
List of user visible changes in the release 1.10.0
-- Improvement
* spec-create - Davide Madrisan:
Specfile can now be created directly from a git repository.
Here an example:
autospec -s git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/cpu/mce/mcelog.git \
-o mcelog.spec
* spec-create - Davide Madrisan:
Add a "## GITSOURCE" comment containing the URL of the git repository.
This information will instruct pck-update on how to update the package.
-- Update
* lib/libnetwork.lib - Davide Madrisan:
Do not require 'host'. Just display a warning message when not available.
This tool (and the package 'bind-utils') is not available in early stage
platform development.
(Asked by Silvan Calarco.)
* autospec.spec - Silvan Calarco:
Do not require '/usr/bin/host' in early stage platform development.
-- Bug Fixes
* pck-update - Davide Madrisan:
specfile.newrelease(): do not ignore the release set by user at command
line. (Bug discovered by Silvan Calarco).
-- Update
* pck-update, lib/libnetwork.lib - Davide Madrisan:
Action 0: the search with regular expressions is now case insensitive.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
List of user visible changes in the release 1.9.4
-- Improvement
* pck-update, lib/libnetwork.lib - Davide Madrisan:
Action 0: reworked to understand regular expressions.
Example: autospec -u "^kde4-.*" -a0
-- Bug Fixes
* templates/{gnome,kde*,library,standard,standard-daemon} - Davide Madrisan:
Move the %debug_package macro after all %description blocks.
-- Update
* templates/* - Davide Madrisan:
Remove 'Patch0' and '#%patch0 -p1' directives.
These lines may be misunderstood by novice users.
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List of user visible changes in the release 1.9.3
-- Improvement
* pck-update - Davide Madrisan:
Action 6: several improvements and fixes.
* pck-update - Davide Madrisan:
Action 5: new option "--list-check" for simply running "rpmbuild -bl" and
displaying the list of unpackaged files.
* spec-create - Davide Madrisan:
Preliminary support for scon.
-- Bug Fixes
* pck-update - Davide Madrisan:
infofile.create(): "rpm --specfile --specedit" is buggy so transform
errors in warnings and do never stop autospec execution.
-- Update
* templates/library - Davide Madrisan:
Modify requirement for pkgconfig (the package is now called pkg-config).
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List of user visible changes in the release 1.9.2
-- Improvement
* templates/library - Davide Madrisan:
Add requirements for pkgconfig.
* pck-update - Davide Madrisan:
Action 6: The code has been rewritten for better readability.
Some bugs have been fixed too.
-- Bug fixes
* pck-update - Davide Madrisan:
Honour `%_specdir' and `%_sourcedir' when checking for syntax errors in the
specfiles. This fix building of package containing patches and build in a
non standard path. (Problem detected by Silvan Calarco).
* autospec.conf - Davide Madrisan:
swap %{_libexecdir} and %{_libdir} substitutions in the variable
'format_unpackaged_file_list' to correctly translate files located in
'/usr/libexec/...'.
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List of user visible changes in the release 1.9.1
-- Improvements
* pck-update - Davide Madrisan:
Display a proper error message when a specfile contains errors.
* pck-update - Davide Madrisan:
Convert the list of unpackaged files discovered by rpmbuild into a list
thah make use of rpm macros (that is, do a /usr/bin --> %{_bindir}, ...
(using the new variable `format_unpackaged_file_list' set in autospec.conf)
* pck-update - Davide Madrisan:
Some code cleanups.
-- Update
* kde4-flist2rpmvars - Davide Madrisan:
Remove this script; it's superseded by the code improvements made in the
plugin 'pck-update'.
* templates/library - Davide Madrisan:
This template has been updated.
* po/it/pck-update - Davide Madrisan:
Update messages and translations.
-- Bug fixes
* pck-update - Davide Madrisan:
Fix expansion of templates containing '@configure@' or a line starting by
'@configure@'.
* lib/libspec.lib - Davide Madrisan:
Correctly parse lines containing complex 'obsoletes' directives, as shown in
the following example:
Obsoletes: pck1 <= <v1>[,] pck2 > <v2>
(Bug discovered by Silvan Calarco).
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List of user visible changes in the release 1.9.0
-- Improvements
* templates/kde4 - Davide Madrisan:
Minor update.
* spec-create - Davide Madrisan:
templates/gnome
templates/kde3, templates/kde4
templates/library
templates/standard, templates/standard-daemon - Davide Madrisan:
Add the %debug_package macro. Avoid bashisms in the rpm scriptlets.
* libspec.lib - Davide Madrisan:
Rework rpmvars.init() in order to support rpm macro expressions.
(Feature asked by Silvan Calarco ages ago ...:)
Debug output is now more readable.
* tests/test01_pkgquality
tests/test02_pkgsecurity - Davide Madrisan:
- Be less verbose and make output a bit more compact;
- rework coloring schema;
- write the grand total of the issues detected by each plugin.
* tests/test02_pkgsecurity - Davide Madrisan:
New test: check for setgid directories.
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List of user visible changes in the release 1.8.2
-- Improvements
* templates/library - Davide Madrisan:
Add a missing requirement and some comments to help developers.
* templates/kde4 - Davide Madrisan:
Minor updates.
* Makefile - Davide Madrisan:
Provide a 'dist-rpm-install' target to install the autospec rpm packages by
a simple 'make dist-rpm-install' command.
* BUGS - Davide Madrisan:
Remove old stuff.
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List of user visible changes in the release 1.8.1 - Christmas Release
-- Bug fixes
* libspec - Silvan Calarco:
Quote '%' characters before passing strings to rpm --eval to avoid a
segmentation fault error.
* pck-update - Silvan Calarco:
Escape '<' and '>' characters when printing SPEC_OBSOLETES to infofile to
fix a syntax error.
-- Improvements
* libapse - Silvan Calarco:
Improve searching in sourceforge sites.
* spec-create, templates - Davide Madrisan:
Several improvements and fixes, notably for library packages with a name
not starting by 'lib'.
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List of user visible changes in the release 1.8.0
-- Bug fixes
* pck-update - Silvan Calarco:
Action 6: Fix automatic build requirements detection with rpm 5.
-- Improvements
* templates/{perl,standard} - Davide Madrisan:
Updated.
* templates/standard-daemon - Davide Madrisan:
New template for packages providing a system/network service.
* lib/libcfg.lib - Davide Madrisan:
Support modularized configuration files (`~/.autospec.d/*.conf').
(Based on an idea developed by Stefano Cotta Ramusino.)
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List of user visible changes in the release 1.7.3
-- Bug fixes
* templates/{kde4,python} - Davide Madrisan:
Fixes.
* libspec - Davide Madrisan:
Workaround the segmentation fault of "rpm --eval" while parsing an internet
address (like rpm --eval 'http://ftp.gnu.org').
(Pointed out by Silvan Calarco)
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List of user visible changes in the release 1.7.2
-- Bug fixes
* spec-create - Davide Madrisan:
Fixed expansion of source and license tags.
* pck-update - Davide Madrisan:
action 1: Display the right installation path for files extracted from a
srpm archive.
-- Improvements
* spec-create - Davide Madrisan:
Improvements in the specfiles created for perl archives.
* templates/library - Davide Madrisan:
Improved template for library packages.
-- Updates
* Updated Italian translations.
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List of user visible changes in the release 1.7.1
-- Bug fixes
* spec-create - Davide Madrisan:
Fixed a regression in the expansion of the macro '@standard_docs@'.
* templates/{standard,perl} - Davide Madrisan:
Various fixes.
-- Updates
* spec-create - Davide Madrisan:
Updated help message.
* spec-create - Davide Madrisan:
Add support for jar archives.
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List of user visible changes in the release 1.7.0 - Christmas Release
-- Updates
* spec-create - Davide Madrisan:
A completely rewritten plugin based on the templates available in the
templates directory.
* templates/{gnome,kde*,library*,perl,python,standard} - Davide Madrisan:
All the template has been reworked to be used by the new spec-create engine.
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List of user visible changes in the release 1.6.3
-- Updates
* libnetwork.lib - Davide Madrisan:
Better output in debug mode.
* pck-update - Davide Madrisan:
New option '--force-download': download the source files even if found in
the SOURCE directory.
-- Bug fixes
* libcfg.cfg - Davide Madrisan
Display a correct error message when the user configuration file is not
available.
-- Documentation
* italian manpage:
Document the new option '--force-download'.
Minor updates.
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List of user visible changes in the release 1.6.2.1
-- Bug fixes
* libnetwork.lib - Davide Madrisan
Make the backup of old files working again.
(thanks to Silvan Calarco for reporting this problem)
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List of user visible changes in the release 1.6.2
-- Updates
* libnetwork.lib - Davide Madrisan
New library, formerly known as librepository.lib, contaning also all the
functions previously provided by libcurl.lib.
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List of user visible changes in the release 1.6.1
-- Improvements
* pck-update - Davide Madrisan
Action 3: download the source file(s) specified in the specfile (instead
okf exiting with and error message) when no package version is specified
at command line.
* pck-update - Davide Madrisan
Action 5: display a warning message if "PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE" is set.
(required by Stefano Cotta Ramusino)
* pck-update, libcurl - Davide Madrisan
All the code related to curl has been moved from pck-update to libcurl.
Several cosmetic changes were made to remove all the code duplication in
pck-update. Now the code appears only once in libcurl :)
-- Bug fixes
* autospec.conf - Davide Madrisan
Fixed and simplified the example for the ftp repository configuration for
openmamba.
* autospec.conf - Davide Madrisan
Update the `patch_name_structure' variable to fix the check of the patches
name structure.
* pck-update, libcurl - Davide Madrisan
The deletion of the old srpm packages works again.
-- Updates
* librepository.lib - Davide Madrisan
Exit with an error message when a curl command doesn't succeed.
* pck-update - Davide Madrisan
Several improvements in the messages shown while downloading and uploading
files (side effect of the moving of all the curl related code to libcurl).
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List of user visible changes in the release 1.6.0
-- Improvements
* autospec.conf - Silvan Calarco, Davide Madrisan
New option `srpm_install_options' with default value `--nodeps':
by default the srpm packages are now installed without taking care of the
missing dependencies (for compatibility with rpm5).
* pck-update - Silvan Calarco
Compatibility fixes to support rpm 5.
Better support with multiarch uploads.
The discovery of the default architecture was improved.
* pck-update - Silvan Calarco, Davide Madrisan
By default do use smart for rpm download and install.
Create specfile backups as old files (i.e. prefixed by '.') by default.
Two new options (`spec_backup_extension' and `spec_backup_attr' was
introduced in autospec.conf to make this behaviour configurable.
Better support for `noarch packages'.
* autospec.conf, libspec.lib - Davide Madrisan
Support 'IEEE' and 'Copyright only' licenses.
Support a list of licenses ending with the `, and' separator.
Now the licenses set in the subpackages are also scannned while looking for
syntax and quality issues in the specfiles.
* spec-create - Davide Madrisan
Add support for '.lz' and '.7z' compressed archives.
* libcurl - Davide Madrisan
New library containing all the code related to curl.
Available functions are for now: `curl.download()', and `curl.upload()'.
* pck-update - Davide Madrisan
Extended code reworking to translate previous code into calls to the licurl
functions.
* Several minor fixes and debug enhancements.
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List of user visible changes in the release 1.5.0
-- Improvements
* pck-update (patch by Silvan Calarco):
Speed optimization.
* libspec.lib
Various speed improvements in the core function 'rpmvars.solve'.
* libspec.lib
Use rpm preprocessor to solve the variables used in a specfile.
Initial patch by Silvan Calarco. Reworked to move all the code into the
pck-update plugin and to run the rpm preprocessor only once.
* pck-update
When it make sense, do use the preprocessed specile instead of the original
one when parsing the specfile.
-- Bug fixes
* libapse.lib (patch by Silvan Calarco):
Honour the netlink option ('curl_opts_netlink').
* pck-update (patch by Silvan Calarco):
Fix identification of old packages to backup.