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Version 0.1.8
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Released: 2008-02-21
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* Backends:
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- apt: some random fixes to get it work again (Sebastian Heinlein)
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- apt2: initial work on a dbus based backend introduced as apt2 (Sebastian Heinlein)
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- apt2: implement GetDescription (Sebastian Heinlein)
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- apt2: fix SearchName (Sebastian Heinlein)
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- apt2: fix a typo in GetUpdates (Sebastian Heinlein)
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- yum: check for missing package in GetUpdateDetail call (Robin Norwood)
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- yum: change throttling policy: at init, change to 90%, throttle to 60% for UpdateSystem call (Robin Norwood)
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- yum: Refresh the yum cache when it is determined to be invalid (Robin Norwood)
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- yum: Make _refresh_yum_cache and RefreshCache work similarly (Robin Norwood)
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- yum2: Added test script to call most of the YumBackend methods (Tim Lauridsen)
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- yum2: Fixed unicode decode error in SearchDetails (Tim Lauridsen)
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- yum2: add call to _check_init there check if Init() has been called (Tim Lauridsen)
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- yum2: added GetPackages(filters) DBus method (Tim Lauridsen)
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- zypp: libzypp >= 4.2.3 is now needed (Stefan Haas)
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- zypp: Added SearchFiles (Stefan Haas)
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- zypp: Added SearchDetails (Stefan Haas)
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- zypp: Added GetRequires (Stefan Haas)
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- zypp: added missing stuff of GetDescription (Stefan Haas)
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* New features:
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- Allow pkcon to actually remove dependancies on user prompt (Richard Hughes)
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- Add some FAQ text on user interaction during the transaction (Richard Hughes)
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- Add the ServicePack functionality - no backends support it yet (Richard Hughes)
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- Enforce that finished is sent 500ms after error_code (Richard Hughes)
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- Add some more self checks to PkBackend (Richard Hughes)
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- Add the supported filter to search for supported packages (Richard Hughes)
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* Bugfixes:
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- Unload nicely on ctrl-c - including closing down the backends (Richard Hughes)
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- Fix a tricky crash (use after unref) in pk_client_finished_cb (Richard Hughes)
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- Use pk_client_set_synchronous() in pkcon to remove loads of code (Richard Hughes)
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- Use $VAR$ syntax in makefiles, not @VAR@ (Stepan Kasal)
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- Do not list check_PROGRAMS again in noinst_PROGRAMS (Stepan Kasal)
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- Remove the dbus at_console rule for the backends (Richard Hughes)
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- Try harder to get a translation when we have stored a base locale (Richard Hughes)
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- Add finalizer for libgbus to free some memory on unload (Richard Hughes)
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- Clear the hash when we reset PkClient, else we fail to show repeat search results (Richard Hughes)
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Version 0.1.7
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Released: 2008-02-14
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* Backends:
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- apt: update to latest API (Tom Parker)
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- apt: add get_updates and get_update_detail (Michael Vogt)
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- apt: cleanup of Package class, by making it a subclass of apt.Package (Tom Parker)
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- apt: make sure ordering of versions is installed one first (Tom Parker)
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- apt: add initial hacky install-file support (Tom Parker)
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- apt: add recursion to get-depends (Tom Parker)
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- apt: add repo enable (Tom Parker)
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- box: ported to the new API (Grzegorz Dabrowski)
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- ipkg: remove ipkg backend as it has been superseded by opkg (Thomas Wood)
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- opkg: forward opkg messages through PackageKit (Thomas Wood)
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- opkg: compare the current and previous urls properly during cache refresh
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- download progress callback
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- opkg: hook into download progress when updating package lists (Thomas Wood)
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- opkg: hook into download progress callback when installing packages (Thomas Wood)
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- opkg: implement get_groups function (Thomas Wood)
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- conary: implement update_detail (Ken VanDine)
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- conary: provide summary data (Ken VanDine)
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- conary: query the correct troveSource when getting the files list (Elliot Peele)
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- conary: Added get-update-detail (Ken VanDine)
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- yum: several utf-8 encoding fixes (Tim Lauridsen)
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- yum: fix search-file to be much faster (Tim Lauridsen)
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- yum: fixed ERROR_SIGNATURE_NOT_IMPORTED traceback (Tim Lauridsen)
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- yum: added get-packages and make the yum backend more resistant to UTF-8 decoding (Tim Lauridsen)
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- yum2: merge in a new backend that uses the dbus service activation.
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It does not work yet... (Tim Lauridsen, Robin Norwood, Richard Hughes)
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- zypp: move to PkBackendThread (Scott Reeves)
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* New features:
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- Use a single instance backend. This allows us to keep processes open over
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transactions, and should allow us to speed things up an order of magnitude
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in the future (Richard Hughes)
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- Add PkExtra and PkExtraObj gobjects to retrieve extra metadata from a
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system store (Richard Hughes)
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- Add client side filtering support so we can trivially strip out the correct
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package when we have it installed and available in many repos (Richard Hughes)
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- Add a cancelling state, as cancelling will take some time (Richard Hughes)
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- Add a specspo import utility to get translations from specspo (Richard Hughes)
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- Add a .desktop import utility for icons and translated summaries (Richard Hughes)
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* Bugfixes:
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- Rationalise the AllowCancel nomenclature and make it standard throughout -
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this should fix lots of bugs where the cancel button was the wrong state in
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client applications (Richard Hughes)
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- Rename ENUM_PROCESS_QUIT to ENUM_TRANSACTION_CANCELLED (Richard Hughes)
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- Allow building more than one backend for a system (Richard Hughes)
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- Add a new method that lets us search for items in an enumerated list
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with a priority (Richard Hughes)
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- Raise an exception if an action is attempted on an unlocked python
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daemon backend (Robin Norwood)
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- More en_UK to en_US fixes in comments (Richard Hughes)
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- The dbus interface and path should be common between backends (Richard Hughes)
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- Make the experimental dbus backend asyncronous (Richard Hughes)
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- Warn the user the security framework name is invalid (Richard Hughes)
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- Improve gtk-doc support (Thomas Wood)
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- Check (and warn) for percentages bigger than 100% (Richard Hughes)
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Version 0.1.6
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Released: 2008-01-18
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* Backends:
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- ipkg: use threads for refresh cache and get description functions (Thomas Wood)
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- ipkg: Implement remove package function (Thomas Wood)
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- ipkg: Implement install package (Thomas Wood)
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- ipkg: implement initial get_updates function (Thomas Wood)
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- ipkg: move get_depends function into a thread (Thomas Wood)
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- ipkg: protect against NULL user input (Thomas Wood)
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- ipkg: do not run init and destroy functions more times than required (Thomas Wood)
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- ipkg: add backend_update_package function (Thomas Wood)
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- ipkg: improve devel filter (Thomas Wood)
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- ipkg: implement update system function (Thomas Wood)
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- ipkg: Add Installed, Development and GUI filter support (Thomas Wood)
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- yum: implemented vendor_url for urls not bugzilla or cve (Tim Lauridsen)
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- yum: Implemented bugzilla_url, cve_url, vendor_url in GetUpdateDetails (Tim Lauridsen)
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- yum: make the updates severity work and show all 3 types (Tim Lauridsen)
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- yum: fix missing package signals when downloading packages with '-' in names (Tim Lauridsen)
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- yum: fix percent not shown if the bump is < 1% (Tim Lauridsen)
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- yum: make get-update-detail work better and dont brake on missing update metadata (Tim Lauridsen)
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- yum: catch RepoError in get-updates and submit ERROR_NO_CACHE to frontend (Tim Lauridsen)
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- yum: make Yum Traceback send the right values to the frontend (Tim Lauridsen)
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* New features:
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- Add initial ipkg backend (Thomas Wood)
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- Add the visible filter (Richard Hughes)
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- Add some more info and group enums (Richard Hughes)
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- Replace the UpdateDetail url parameter with vendor, bugzilla, cve (Richard Hughes)
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- Add PK_STATUS_ENUM_FINISHED when we are just watching status (Richard Hughes)
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- Add a pm-utils hook so we can drop caches and check for updates on resume (Richard Hughes)
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- First stab at daemonizing the yum backend (Robin Norwood)
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* Bugfixes:
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- Only do the 100 limit count on emitted packages, not on searched packages.
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This bug becomes evident when using a couple of filters and searching a large number
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of package_ids (Richard Hughes)
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- An empty url list should be empty, not 'none' (Richard Hughes, Matthias Clasen)
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- Use $(LIBTOOL) rather than hardcoding libtool filename to prevent problems
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when cross compiling (Thomas Wood)
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- Add details about what we are winging about in the daemon messages (Richard Hughes)
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- Include pk-apt-search.h in the tarball to fix fd:13406 (Richard Hughes)
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- Capture and show the Message() in pkmon (Richard Hughes)
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- Only look for helpers and the config file in a local root if we have configured
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with --enable-local to make people less uneasy with path globbing (Richard Hughes)
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- Finish removing filelist from package description (James Bowes)
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Version 0.1.5
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Released: 2007-12-21
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* Backends:
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- apt: Commit a general cleanup patch (Michael Vogt's)
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- apt: Add GetRepoList support (Tom Parker)
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- apt: Fix resolution of not installed packages (Tom Parker)
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- apt: Do recursive requires (Tom Parker)
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- apt: Add GetRequires and GetDepends (Tom Parker)
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- apt: Reduce whining about lack of status messages (Tom Parker)
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- conary: Add better exception handling (Elliot Peele)
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- conary: Add some extra sanity checks (Elliot Peele)
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- pisi: Provide status information (S.Çağlar Onur)
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- yum: Add support for the "free" filter (Robin Norwood)
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- zypp: Added initial stab at backend_get_updates() for zypp backend (Boyd Timothy)
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- zypp: Add RemovePackage (Boyd Timothy)
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- zypp: SearchName will return both installed and available packages (Boyd Timothy)
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- zypp: Query the SQL database directly and instead just query the cached
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repository information (Boyd Timothy)
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- zypp: Added some sub_progress information for general repo events (Boyd Timothy)
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- zypp: Add Refresh cache method (Boyd Timothy)
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* New features:
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- Add exception handler so unhandled exceptions are sent as a error signal to
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packagekit (Tim Lauridsen)
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- Fully re-integrate sqlite search backend for apt - we've now reintegrated
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everything from apt.old, so we're dropping that at the same time (Tom Parker)
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- Add me, Tim Lauridsen, S.Çağlar Onur, Ken VanDine and Elliot Peele to the
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authors html page (All)
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- Document a whole lot more with gtk-doc and generate some HTML (Richard Hughes)
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- Add a bugreport script so we can get info about the system (Richard Hughes)
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- Add generic licence parsing and add all the enums (Robin Norwood)
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* API changes:
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- Add in a 'free' filter enum to filter non-free and free packages (Richard Hughes)
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* Bugfixes:
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- PackageKitExceptions now include the original DBusException (Tom Parker)
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- Use the correct bus name and object path in the yum plugin (Luke Macken)
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- Fix PackageKit to build against PolicyKit 0.7 (Matthias Clasen)
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- Change from 'licence' to 'license' throughout (Robin Norwood)
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- Check the user is root before we run packagekitd (Richard Hughes)
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- Do the threading correctly in the threaded backends (Richard Hughes)
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- waf: Fix x86_64 build, missing -fPIC (Gustavo Carneiro)
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Version 0.1.4
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Released: 2007-11-26
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* Backends:
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- yum: Mark our status as QUERY when we have finished setting up the
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transaction so we get the correct icon (Richard Hughes)
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- yum: Improved yum UpdateMetadata handling for reboot-suggested (Luke Macken)
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- conary: Add GetFiles (Elliot Peele)
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- conary: Enable Cancel (Elliot Peele)
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- conary: Add Resolve support (Elliot Peele)
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- conary: Added new python files to distfiles (Ken VanDine)
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- zypp: add initial backend code (Boyd Timothy, Scott Reeves)
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- zypp: Add GetRepoList (Boyd Timothy)
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- zypp: emit the correct status from the backend (Boyd Timothy)
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- zypp: Add InstallPackage method (Boyd Timothy, Scott Reeves)
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- zypp: Query SQL database to resolve names (Scott Reeves)
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- box: set Status more often (Grzegorz Dabrowski)
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- box: Remove all the shell helpers and use C implementations (Grzegorz Dabrowski)
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* New features:
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- Lots more waf build system updates - it now builds and installs 100%
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but requires waf from svn (Gustavo Carneiro, Daniel Svensson, Richard Hughes)
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- Add the requires check before remove in pkcon (Richard Hughes)
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- Monitor when the calling program exits from the system bus (Richard Hughes)
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- waf: Add unit test reporting in waf buildsystem (Daniel Svensson)
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- Convert all the active methods async. This lets us get the sender so we can
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watch to see if they fall off the bus or not (Richard Hughes)
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- Add a yum-packagekit plugin to refresh the PackageKit data when a manual
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update command is run. Code is copied from yum-updatesd in yum-utils and
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was authored by James Bowes.
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- Install the bash completion file so it works by default (Richard Hughes)
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- Add into pkcon to get the time since something was checked (Richard Hughes)
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- Log when the last command is run so we can work out how long since a command
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was run. This allows us to accuratly preseve the "session" setting of
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GetUpdates policy (Richard Hughes)
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* API changes:
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- Add a status enum so we get the correct icon when getting data (Richard Hughes)
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- Add a info enum for blocked updates (Richard Hughes)
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- Add some more status constants for backend transaction progress (Richard Hughes)
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- Add messages to be shown from the transaction to the session (Richard Hughes)
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* Bugfixes:
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- Use a different PolicyKit permissions for UpdateSystem and UpdatePackage
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as both were defined as the same thing in the policy (Richard Hughes)
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- Build fixes with autogen.sh (Tom Parker, Boyd Timothy)
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- Free memory in case of dbus error (Grzegorz Dabrowski)
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- Fix a crash in pk_transaction_list_get_array (JP Rosevear)
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- We should only invalidate the internal cache if the transaction succeeded.
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This stops a failed update-system from clearing the cache (Richard Hughes)
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- Fix the manpage corruption issue described in Bug #12796 (Luke Macken)
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Version 0.1.3
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Released: 2007-11-10
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* Backends:
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- smart: Add installed filter (James Bowes)
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- smart: Add search-details (James Bowes)
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- smart: Add install-file (James Bowes)
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- PiSi: Add gui filter (S.Çağlar Onur)
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- yum: Add gui filter (Tim Lauridsen)
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- yum: Add repo-set-data (Tim Lauridsen)
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- yum: Add get-update-detail (Tim Lauridsen)
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- yum: Add get-requires (Tim Lauridsen)
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- box: Use C API with percent updates for cache refreshing (Grzegorz Dabrowski)
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* New features:
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- Split out the KDE, GNOME and XFCE desktop groups (Richard Hughes)
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- Add power-management package group (S.Çağlar Onur)
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- Add 'make gcov' and 'make gprof' for unit testing (Richard Hughes)
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- Add a metric ton of unit tests (Richard Hughes)
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- Check backends do not send finished more than once (Richard Hughes)
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- Add enums builder for python (Tom Parker)
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- Add the start of a waf build system - untested and unsupported.
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(Richard Hughes, Alberto Ruiz, Daniel Svensson)
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- Add initial work for multiple apt searching backends (Tom Parker)
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* API changes:
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- PkClient restart should be an enumerated type, not free text (Richard Hughes)
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* Bugfixes:
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- Replace the g_strjoinv and use pk_strbuild_va to append a va_list to fix
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a crash on i86_64 (Richard Hughes)
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- Immediate exit has to wait a few cycles for registration (Richard Hughes)
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- Check for existance of apt_pkg python module with apt backend (Tom Parker)
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- yum: Emit no-cache in resolve if the cache is invalid (Tim Lauridsen)
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- Correct typos and thinkos, and add a few more application notes to the
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developer documentation (Richard Hughes)
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- Fix memleaks in a few places of the daemon code (Grzegorz Dabrowski)
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- Fix memleaks in PkClient and PkJobList (James Bowes)
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- Don't emit error for the transaction if cancel is not valid - cancel
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operates on an existing tid and shouldn't have control of the finished or
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error signals (Richard Hughes)
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- Parse updatedetail from stdout and discover get_update_detail (Richard Hughes)
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- Update packagekit.pc.in to require glib and gobject (Tom Parker)
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Version 0.1.2
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Released: 2007-11-01
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* Backends:
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- Add a new python based APT backend (Ali Sabil)
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- Significant smart backend updates (James Bowes)
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- Significant PiSi backend updates (S.Çağlar Onur)
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- More yum functionality (James Bowes, Tim Lauridsen)
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- More box functionality (Grzegorz Dabrowski)
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* New features:
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- Allow PkClient to be set promiscuous, i.e. to report all activity and use to
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get the errors and completions (Richard Hughes)
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- Add pk-backend-python.[c|h], for common spawning functions for python
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backends and switch the backends to use them (James Bowes)
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- Use pk_strzero, pk_strlen and pk_strcmp to increase performance and
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potentally improve security (Richard Hughes)
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- Add resolve support to pkcon get depends/requires/description/updatedetail
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(S.Çağlar Onur)
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- Try to guess the remaining time of the transaction using a super nifty
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algorithm (Richard Hughes)
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- Add Cleanup and Obsoleting as info states so we don't scare the user with
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DELETING when they are doing an upgrade (Richard Hughes, Tim Lauridsen)
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* API changes:
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- Switch the discrete GetPercentage and GetSubPercentage to a GetProgress
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method that allows us to report remaining and elapsed time into the
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client UI (Richard Hughes)
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* Bugfixes:
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- Sanitise more text from the backends in case the backend sends invalid or
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malicious text (Richard Hughes)
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- Defer destroying the backend for 5 seconds so we can query it in the
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finished handler in clients (Richard Hughes)
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- Add GetFiles method so we don't slow down the GUI box getting the file list
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every time we click a package (James Bowes)
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- Calculate progress bar length based on terminal columns (James Bowes)
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- Convert RefreshCache to a privileged operation but with default to allow
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when on active console. The distro can then patch this default to whatever
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depending on the security policy - and the admin can of course change the
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default. (S.Çağlar Onur)
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Version 0.1.1
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Released: 2007-10-23
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* New backends:
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- A SMART backend (James Bowes)
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- A PiSi backend (S.Çağlar Onur)
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* New features:
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- A better, easier to use website; http://www.packagekit.org (Richard Hughes)
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- Added missing install-file.py so we can do local rpm installs (Tim Lauridsen)
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- Be ultra-paranoid about validating input from the user (Richard Hughes)
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- Send SIGQUIT and then SIGKILL after a little delay, so we can clean up the
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backends nicely by unlocking when we cancel (Richard Hughes)
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- Add resolve functionality in pkcon to allow non-package_id use, for instance
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'pkcon remove gimp' now does the right thing (Richard Hughes)
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- Display a pulsing progress bar for no-progress-updates and percentage-update
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that is shown when using a console (James Bowes)
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- Remove the hard dependency on NetworkManager so other networking stacks
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can be used instead (S.Çağlar Onur, Richard Hughes)
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- Add a filter parameter for Resolve() so we can do the filtering in the
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spawned backend without duplicating code (James Bowes, Richard Hughes)
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- Substantial additions to the box backend (Grzegorz Dabrowski)
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- Add GetRepoList and RepoEnable to the yum backend (Tim Lauridsen)
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- Add bash completion script for pkcon (James Bowes)
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- Get the repo list for the aplm backend (Andreas Obergrusberger)
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* API changes:
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- Store the transaction database in /var/lib rather than /var/db (James Bowes)
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- Don't expose the private list in PkTaskList, instead use verified functions
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to ensure we can't corrupt data accidentally (Richard Hughes)
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- Don't export the private data array in PkClient or PkPackageList - this
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breaks API, so the library version has been bumped (Richard Hughes)
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* Bugfixes:
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- Fix the resolve method parameter passing - now pk-install-package should work
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correctly (James Bowes)
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- Fix all the copyright notices to be a standard GPL2+ boilerplate license
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text (Tom Parker, Robin Norwood)
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- Dist the local apt headers so the apt backend can be compiled from a tarball
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rather than just from git (Richard Hughes)
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- Fix a 1-in-10 random daemon startup crash when backends do libnm_glib init,
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shutdown, init, shutdown repeatedly (Richard Hughes)
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- Added locking in the yum backend to allow simultaneous use of the yum command
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line tool or yum-updatesd (Tim Lauridsen)
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- Fix NoPercentageUpdates validity checking (James Bowes)
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Version 0.1.0
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Released: 2007-10-16
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* The first public release of PackageKit:
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- New gobject client library for session software to easily talk to PackageKit.
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- Asynchronous API that does not block.
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- Daemon that can queue and manage multiple simultaneous blocking and
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non-blocking transactions
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- Client applications (pkcon and pkmon) that interact with PackageKit on the
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command line without any GUI dependencies
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- Many compiled and scripted backends: conary, yum, apt, box, alpm
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- Comprehensive docbook documentation
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- Daemon configuration parameters in etc
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- Module level unit tests as standard
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- Python backend and frontend helper libraries
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- Transaction logging and capability exports for GUI tools
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- HAL locking supported for not-to-be interrupted phases of the transaction
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- NetworkManager integration for network state
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- PolicyKit integration for fine-grained permission control.
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