changelog

About: Paco (pacKAGE oRGANIZER) is a simple, yet powerful tool to aid package management when insta

	  retrieving the paco log directory after installation with pkg-config,
	  like this: "pkg-config --variable=logdir paco".
	+ Allowed the use of option '-x|--expand' when logging packages. If the
	  expansion leads to more than one package name, paco prints an error
	  message and exits. See an example in the README file.
	+ Scripts are no longer included in the distribution. They have been
	  available in the web site (http://paco.sourceforge.net/downloads.html).
	+ [bugfix]: temporary files were not always removed at exit.
	+ Removed the option '--with-paco-logdir' in configure, since it can be set
	  in the configuration file.
	+ New options CLEAR_EMPTY and CLEAR_UNINSTALLED for pacorc. See the man page
	  of pacorc for more information.
	+ Minor bugfixes.


1.10.2 [6 Nov 2005]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	+ New option '--ignore-errors' in paco (see the man page).
	+ New configure option '--enable-ansi'.
	+ Allow the use of rpmunpack in SuperPaco (by Richard Johns). This means
	  that rpm2cpio is no longer required to install RPM packages.
	+ Removed reference to sudo conflict, which is not true (thanks Carlos
	  Vendramini).
	+ [bugfix]: option '-c' broken!
	+ [bugfix]: segfault in paco when reading badly formatted logs.
	+ [bugfix]: problems when creating binary packages in gpaco.
	+ [bugfix]: gpaco: When updating the database, newly logged packages were
	  duplicated in the list of packages.
	+ [bugfix]: segfault when reading long lines from the logs (thanks Mirco
	  Lorenzoni)
	+ [bugfix]: SuperPaco had problems when installing RPM packages:
	  "cp: cannot stat `foo': No such file or directory".


1.10.1 [27 Oct 2005]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	This release fixes an important bug in version 1.10.0: When logging
	installations, paths to be excluded were actually not excluded from the
	logs. Thanks Arthur Demchenkov for catching this horrible bug.
	

1.10.0 [23 Oct 2005]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	*** IMPORTANT: Notes for users of older versions of paco ***
	************************************************************
	1) There are changes in the log format. To rebuild the database, run
	   'paco -au' right after installing this new version.
	2) The libpaco shared library has been renamed to libpaco-log. Files
	   /usr/lib/libpaco.* can be removed when upgrading to paco-1.10.0.
			   
	General changes
	---------------
	+ The configure script can be run from outside the main paco sources
	  directory (thanks Christian Schneider).
	+ Added russian translation (by Arthur Demchenkov).
	+ The syntax of pacorc is more strict. Quotes and spaces are not stripped
	  from the value of the variables. Type 'man pacorc' for more information.
	+ Fixed compilation errors in Solaris.

	Changes in paco
	---------------
	+ Enhanced the debugging messages when logging or removing packages.
	+ Resolve intermediate directory symlinks in the names of the logged files
	  (no more conflicts with /usr/man and /usr/share/man, etc).
	+ Enhanced the way to collect package information at log time: Builds from
	  outside the main package sources directory are supported, and the
	  config.status and .aspec (autopackage) files are scanned.
	+ When logging packages, the values of CC, CFLAGS, etc... are retrieved only
	  from the environment, and not from the Makefile.
	+ [bugfix]: Spurious commented lines in "Description" info field.

	Changes in gpaco
	----------------
	+ [bugfix]: configuration file (.gpacorc) not well written at exit.
	+ [bugfix]: charset encoding problems (thanks Arthur Demchenkov).
	+ [bugfix]: memory leaks (thanks the [e-mail] people).
	+ [bugfix]: segfault when removing packages.
	+ [bugfix]: problems with long package descriptions (thanks Christoph Berg).
	+ Removed the "maximmum database age" setting in "Preferences". Never update
	  the database at start.
	

1.9.6 [23 Sep 2005]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	+ Fixed a bug on Solaris: "ld.so.1: sh: fatal: /usr/lib/libpaco.: open
	  failed: No such file or directory".


1.9.5 [23 Sep 2005]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	+ Paco has been successfully tested on NetBSD-2.0 (thanks Tanaka Shin-ya).
	+ Fixed error codes when using the '-l' option to monitor a command.
	  Now paco returns: 0 on success, 1 if paco itself fails, and 2 if the
	  failure comes from the monitorized command (thanks Dan Nicholson).
	+ Expand variable $HOME (or ${HOME}) in pacorc (thanks XMail-LORD).
	+ Fixed memory leaks.
	+ [bugfix]: "true_fopen64 undeclared" (thanks Tanaka Shin-ya).
	+ [bugfix]: "__unused redefined" (thanks Christian Schneider).
	+ [bugfix]: Segmentation fault when dealing with filenames containing the
	  percent ('%') character (thanks Christian Schneider).
	+ [bugfix]: Fixed some serious bugs in superpaco (ooopss...).
	+ [bugfix]: "too many open files" when removing packages.
	

1.9.4 [5 Sep 2005]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	This release fixes a bug in paco-1.9.3: When logging installations, the
	package information was not properly retrieved.


1.9.3 [4 Sep 2005]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	Changes in paco:
	~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
	+ Removed option '-S|--stdin'. From now on, if the option '-l|--log' is
	  used without any command, files are read from the standard input, just
	  like the '-S' option did. Update your scripts!
	+ The build-time values of CC, CFLAGS and some other variables are now
	  saved in the database, and retrieved with the new option '-V|--variable'.
	+ Due to the above new feature, the short option '-V' has changed its
	  meaning and it's no more used to show version information.
	+ [bugfix] '-C' option printed 0 shared files for all packages!
	+ [bugfix] Bogus error messages were printed when removing packages.
	+ [internal] Use GNU getopt to parse the command line options.
	+ [internal] Use linked lists for the lists of files.
	
	Changes in gpaco:
	~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
	+ Added translator credits in the "About" dialog.
	+ Added accelerator to option "Update database" (Ctrl+U).
	+ [bugfix] Wrong "parse error" failure when updating the database.
	+ [bugfix] Newly logged packages were not properly updated when updating
	  the whole database.
	+ [bugfix] Bogus error messages were printed when removing packages.

	Other changes:
	~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
	+ Replaced the configure option '--enable-scripts' with new options
	  '--enable-a2paco', '--enable-superpaco' and '--enable-pacoball'.
	+ New script paco_bash_completion, written by Christian Schneider.
	+ Let pacoball accept more than one input package.
	+ New options '-1|--faster', '-9|--better' and '-a|--all' in pacoball.
	+ Created a man page for pacoball.
	+ Removed configuration variable DPKGDIR.
	+ Added Serbian translation (Boban Petrovic).
	+ Updated French translation (Ookaze BioACobol).
	+ Updated Catalan translation (me).


1.9.2 [03 Aug 2005]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	This release uses the full GNU build system: autoconf, automake and libtool.
	
	*** IMPORTANT: Due to the use of libtool, paco can't track its own
	*** installation anymore. See the INSTALL file for more details.
	
	General changes:
	================
	+ The default log directory can be set at configure time, with the option
	  '--with-paco-logdir=DIR'.
	+ The path '/usr/info/dir' has been added to the default value of EXCLUDE.
	  Now EXCLUDE='/tmp:/usr/src:/usr/info/dir'.
	+ New configuration variable APPARENT_SIZE (See the man page of pacorc).
	+ (Apparently, hopefully) ported to Solaris 9.

	I18n:
	=====
	+ Internationalizated gpaco.
	+ Updated French translation (Ookaze BioACobol).
	+ Updated Catalan translation (me).

	Changes in libpaco:
	===================
	+ Added truncate(), truncate64() and creat64() handlers.
	+ Bugfixes.

	Changes in paco:
	================
	+ Removed the '--usage' option and the '?' switch.
	+ Don't print the date and the size of the package when listing files.
	
	Changes in gpaco:
	=================
	+ Disallow changing the log directory at runtime (for now).
	+ Don't permit multiple selection in the list of packages (for now).
	

1.9.1 [16 Jul 2005]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	- Fixed various build and install errors.
	- Added french translation (by Ookaze BioACobol).


1.9.0 [12 Jul 2005]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	General changes:
	- Use Autoconf build system.
	- Internationalisation support with GNU gettext. Added catalan translation.
	- The default configuration directory is now '/usr/etc'. Use the configure
	  option '--sysconfdir' to change it.
	- Increased portability.
	
	Changes in paco:
	- Various bugfixes in libpaco.
	
	Changes in gpaco:
	- New "Keep logs" option in the "Remove" page.
	- Added abbility to create binary packages.
	- Changed the buttons layout in the "Remove" page.
	- Permit multiple selection in the list of packages.
	- Minor bugfixes and enhancements.

	Changes in scripts:
	- New option '--ball=PATH' in pacoball.

	Thanks Dan Nicholson <[e-mail]> for testing paco in Solaris.
	Thanks Jim Gifford for let me test paco in a mips64 machine.


1.8.9 [04 Jun 2005]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	Changes in paco:
	- Fixed the "Unremoved dangling symlinks" bug. Thanks Jesse S.
	- Fixed the "Wrong shared files list" bug.
	- Accelerated the shared file detection code. Also in gpaco.
	- Changed the default values for the variables INCLUDE and EXCLUDE, which
	  set the paths to scan/skip when logging the installation of a package.
	  New default values are:
		 INCLUDE=/
		 EXCLUDE=/tmp:/usr/src	('/dev' and '/proc' are implicitly skipped).

  
1.8.8 [15 May 2005]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	Changes in paco:
	- Added abbility to get information also from the .pc (pkg-config) file when
	  installing a package.
	- Allow the use of option '-U' with '-r', to force removing the log of the
	  packages.
	- Fixed a bug that prevented paco to properly update the database. Thanks
	  Ookaze BioACobol.
	
	Changes in gpaco:
	- Restore the position of the main window between sessions.
	
	Changes in pacoball:
	- Fixed the "Argument list too long" bug. Thanks Ivo Nedialkov Krastev.
	- Strip leading '/'s from file names. Thus pacoballs can be unpacked in
	  different prefixes than the root directory '/'.


1.8.7 [30 Apr 2005]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	- This release fixes a bug that made paco log some files twice when using
	  the option "+".
	- Debugging support has been added to the libpaco code too (it must be build
	  with CFLAGS=-DDEBUG to enable it).


1.8.6 [16 Apr 2005]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	Changes in gpaco:
	- Added accelerators to some menu items.
	- New option to show missing sizes as percent in the "Preferences" dialog.
	- Display dates in UTF8 encoding (thanks Ryurik).
	- Minor bugfixes.

	Other changes:
	- Better deal with file sizes (thanks Mirco Lorenzoni & Demchenkov Arthur).