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30.01.2020

News about XBPS

  XBPS 0.58 was just released, with many new features and a lot of
  improvements. Since the last post was for 0.54, this post includes all
  changes and some highlights since the last post.

Highlights

Performance improvements

  Some users might have noticed that removing the plasma-desktop was very
  time consuming because of dependency cycles. The dependency resolution
  algorithm has been completely rewritten and is now able to resolve the
  dependencies of plasma-desktop within seconds.

  See the [11]pull request void-linux/xbps#78 if you are interested in
  what changed.

  The --fulldeptree flag of [12]xbps-query(1) in combination with -x or
  -X for dependencies and reverse dependencies respectively has been
  improved and will now be 50x faster in the worst case scenario.

ignorepkg configuration option

  Many users tried to get rid of the default kernel or some other
  base-system requirement. For this we’ve added a new configuration
  keyword: ignorepkg.

  With this new keyword you can ignore packages that are pulled in by
  other packages as runtime dependencies.

  As example you can add linux-firmware-amd as ignored package and then
  uninstall the package:
# echo "ignorepkg=linux-firmware-amd" > /etc/xbps.d/10-ignore.conf
# xbps-remove linux-firmware-amd

  This works for any package, i.e. being able to remove linux4.19 while
  keeping the linux meta package. Or removing the linux meta package
  itself and installing only the kernel series you like to use yourself.

noextract configuration option

  Another useful new feature is the new noextract, it allows to specify
  patterns of files that should not be extracted when installing or
  updating packages.

  This allows as example to skip extracting translations the users are
  not interesting in, allowing to reduce the installation size.

  We plan to make use of it in xbps-src to cut down the time required to
  install build dependencies.

Download only flag

  A new flag was added to [13]xbps-install(1) which allows to download
  packages and its dependencies without installing them.

Changelog

xbps-0.58 (2020-01-30):

    * libfetch: fix [14]CVE-2020-7450; from FreeBSD. [15][duncaen]
    * [16]xbps-query(1), [17]xbps-remove(1): improved detection of
      orphans, needing multiple iterations to collect all of them in a
      single transaction. [18][xtraeme]
    * [19]xbps-checkvers(1): added -e, --removed. To list removed
      templates in srcpkgs. [20][Chocimier]
    * [21]xbps-install(1): improved -D, --download-only. This now can be
      used to download all required binary packages of the target pkg
      without the need to have write permission to the rootdir.
$ xbps-install -c $PWD/cachedir -Dy xbps

      NOTE: -c, --cachedir must be specified as absolute pathname,
      otherwise it will treat it as relative to rootdir. [22][xtraeme]
    * [23]xbps-fetch(1): added -s to print sha256sums of downloaded
      files. [24][duncaen]
    * configure: re-add --enable-debug and enable it by default.
      [25][xtraeme]
    * [26]xbps-install(1): ignore indirect reverse dependencies while
      updating xbps. [27][xtraeme]
    * [28]xbps-install(1): added --reproducible long option. If set,
      enables reproducible mode in pkgdb. [29][xtraeme]
    * [30]xbps-install(1): don’t prompt if all packages in the
      transaction are on hold. [Mohamad Barbar]
    * [31]xbps-rindex(1): stop adding the “build-date” pkg obj. Contained
      wrong info and did not provide enough value to be useful; another
      step towards reproducibility. [32][xtraeme]
    * [33]xbps-create(1): always sanitize gathered symlinks.
      [34][xtraeme]
    * [35]xbps-install(1): do not silently update xbps on any
      install/update transaction. If there’s a new update for the xbps
      package, this needs to be explicitely declared as a single
      transaction, i.e:
$ xbps-install -u xbps

      Otherwise it will return EBUSY (16), making this a proper error
      code to diagnose what failed. [36][xtraeme]
    * [37]xbps.d(5): new ‘noextract’ configuration option, to skip
      extracting files matching a pattern. [38][duncaen]
    * [39]xbps.d(5): autodetected ‘architecture’ (glibc or musl) at
      compile-time on linux systems. [40][xtraeme]
    * configure: added --enable-lto and don’t enable it by default.
      [41][xtraeme]
    * Multiple bugs with packages on hold were fixed. [42][xtraeme]
    * [43]xbps-uchroot(1), [44]xbps-uunshare(1): document end of options
      argument. [45][Doan Tran Cong Danh]
    * [46]xbps-alternatives(1): prune obsolete alternatives groups.
      [47][q66]

  17 new test cases were added in this release, 6 people were involved:
  Juan RP, Piotr Wójcik, Duncan Overbruck, Doan Tran Cong Danh, Mohamad
  Barbar, q66.

xbps-0.57.1 (2019-10-27):

    * Multiple changes and improvements to the transaction fetch code.
      [48][duncaen]
    * Verify revision in xbps_pkg_{version,revision,name}, to handle
      properly package names that use _. [49][Chocimier]
    * [50]xbps-checkvers(1): fixed a compile-time warning with glibc.
      [51][xtraeme]
    * [52]xbps-alternatives(1): check if alternative is a symlink before
      removing it. [53][xtraeme]
    * Try to find a usable shell instead of using /bin/sh when executing
      package scripts. [54][Gottox]
    * [55]xbps-rindex(1): better error handling for writing repodata
      archives. [56][Chocimier]
    * [57]xbps-create(1): better error handling for writing archives.
      [58][Chocimier]

xbps-0.57 (2019-08-06):

    * xbps now builds with tcc and pcc. [59][xtraeme]
    * xbps now uses the transactional file checks for package removals,
      this fixes issues where xbps removes wrong files, if a package
      replaces another packages with the same files. [60][duncaen]
    * [61]xbps-remove(1): skip the transaction if no packages are found.
      This restores the behaviour of xbps prior to 0.54. [62][xtraeme]
    * [63]xbps-remove(1): fix -o, --remove-orphans not removing all
      orphaned packages. [64][duncaen]
    * [65]xbps-install(1): if specified packages with -u, --update are up
      to date return EEXIST. [66][jnbr]
    * [67]xbps-query(1): restores old behaviour of --fulldeptree, to not
      list the package itself. [68][duncaen]
    * Updated zsh completions. [69][leah2]

xbps-0.56 (2019-06-24):

    * Fixed xbps_transaction_prepare() always returning ENXIO because the
      transaction dictionary wasn’t initialized before first use.
      Regression from 0.54. [70][xtraeme]
    * Fixed unlocking the pkgdb via xbps_end(). [71][xtraeme]
    * Fixed flushing pkgdb to storage and re-reading it unnecessarily,
      this affected [72]xbps-alternatives(1), [73]xbps-pkgdb(1) and
      [74]xbps-reconfigure(1). [75][xtraeme]
    * xbps now allows to remove an installed package that was added to
      the ignored packages list with ignorepkg from [76]xbps.d(5).
      [77][duncaen]
    * Fixed an issue with multi threaded for each loops processing the
      first slicecount*maxthreads entries twice. [78][duncaen]
    * Fixed an issue with happy eyeballs, where when a socket fails
      within the connection delay it aborts with the error instead of
      continuing with the next address. [79][jnbr]

xbps-0.55 (2019-06-21):

    * [80]xbps-install(1): Added -D, --download-only flag to allow
      downloading packages to the cache without attempting to install
      them. [81][Vaelatern]
    * [82]xbps-install(1): added -I, --ignore-file-conflicts to not abort
      the transaction even if file conflicts were detected. [83][xtraeme]
    * [84]xbps-install(1): return 0 if package is already installed, or
      up-to-date if updating, not EEXIST. EEXIST now is only returned if
      there are file conflicts in transaction. [85][xtraeme]
    * [86]xbps-checkvers(1): fixed a segfault with --format.
      [87][duncaen]
    * Fixed a build failure on ppc64. [88][q66]
    * Fixed a build failure on x86. [89][duncaen]
    * Fixed cross compilation with --enable-static. [90][xtraeme]
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