changelog

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

1.8.5 [10 Mar 2005]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	Changes in gpaco:
	- Use UTF8 encoding for the text in "Properties".
	- New option '-d|--debug' to print debugging messages on the console.
	- Restore the size of the main window between sessions.
	- Upgraded to GTK+-2.6
	- Removed dependency on GNU getopt.
	- Minor bugfixes and enhancements.

	Changes in paco:
	- Disabled option '-vv'.
	- New option '-e|--skip' (see the man page).
	- Let option '-o|--configure-options' accept more than one argument.
	
	Other changes:
	- Enhanced the man page and the INSTALL file.
	- New script 'pacoball' (very simple): Creates binary .tar.bz2 or .tar.gz
	  packages from installed (and logged) packages.
	- From now on, scripts are not installed by default. There's a new configure
	  option '--enable-scripts' to install them.
	- Minor bugfixes and enhancements in a2paco and superpaco.
	  

1.8.4 [19 Feb 2005]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	Changes in gpaco:
	- Added mnemonics to all buttons and menu items.
	- New dialog "Search" which does the same as 'paco -q' but graphically.
	- Show progress bar when compressing/uncompressing more than 1MB.

	Other changes:
	- Logs ending with '~'	or '.bak' are ignored.
	- The names of the packages must start with an alphanumeric character.
	
	USERS OF PACO < 1.8.0 SHOULD READ "UPGRADE"
	

1.8.3 [14 Feb 2005]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	Changes in gpaco:
	- Added file compression/uncompression support.
	- Beautified the "Properties" page in the package windows.
	- New dialog "Preferences". Replaces the old items in "Options", adding
	  some new features.
	- "Missing icons" bug fixed.

	Other changes:
	- Another "rubbish in missing files" bug fixed.
	- New log format: The information of the packages is stored in separate
	  logs in directory $LOGDIR/_info, for better manipulation. This change is
	  automatically applied when updating the paco database with 'paco -au'.

	USERS OF PACO < 1.8.0 SHOULD READ doc/UPGRADE


1.8.2 [06 Feb 2005]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	- This release fixes an important bug in paco-1.8.1, due to a typo: The 
	  configuration file was not properly parsed.
	- There's also a new useful option '-o|--configure-options', which prints
	  the options passed to configure when the package was installed.
	- Minor bugfixes in gpaco.
	

1.8.1 [04 Feb 2005]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	This release fixes the "rubbish in missing files" bug.
	Thanks MrPeacock <[e-mail]>.
	

1.8.0 [03 Feb 2005]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR USERS OF PACO < 1.8.0
	-------------------------------------------
	This release incorporates two important changes:
	
	1) The syntax of the logs has changed. Users of previous versions of paco
	   should run the 'upgrade' script provided with the paco-1.8.0 tarball
	   in order to convert the logs to the new format. Type 'upgrade --help'
	   for more information.
	   
	2) New locations for the default configuration files and log directory:
	   paco conf. file	= /etc/pacorc	(customizable with '--sysconfdir' opt.)
	   log directory	= /var/log/paco (customizable with '--logdir' opt.)
	   gpaco conf. file = ~/.gpacorc
	
	Thanks Paul Heldens for the aid.
	
	Changes in paco
	---------------
	- [Bugfix] Sizes of packages bigger than 1MB were wrong.
	- [Bugfix] Properly deal with defines in .spec files.
	- Adjust the 'paco -i' output to the screen width.
	- paco -vv produces debug messages.
	- Recursively remove empty directories when removing a package (also in
	  gpaco).
	- New option '-n|--missing-size', to show the missing size of the packages.
	  To achieve this, paco keeps the sizes of the missing files in the logs,
	  hence the change in the log format.
	  From 1.8.0 on, when listing files, the sizes of the missing ones won't be
	  '?' anymore. When dealing with logs created by earlier versions, those
	  sizes will be zero. But for packages logged by paco >= 1.8.0 the original
	  sizes of the missing files will be shown.
	- Due to the above new option, there's a new accepted argument to the
	  option '--sort': it's 'missing-size'. Also the argument 'missing' has
	  been renamed to 'missing-files'.
	- Slight change in the '-c' option usage. See the man page.
	- New option '--usage' to show option summary.
	- Added long option to '-D' switch. It's '--dirname'.
	
	Changes in gpaco
	----------------
	- Properly sort the list of packages or files by name (case insensitive).
	- Added two new columns in the main window, one for the icon and one for
	  the missing size of the packages.
	- Show the icon of the package in "Properties".
	- Renamed the gpaco icon gp.png to gpaco.png. Now it's installed in
	  DATADIR/pixmaps instead of DATADIR/paco to follow the GNOME conventions.
	  For the same reason, gpaco.desktop has been created.
	- Beautified (well I think) the "About gpaco" dialog.
	- Restore the scrolling status of the package windows after update.
	- Emulate a console when removing a package (black background, courier
	  font).
	- Show a progress bar while updating the database.
	- Code cleanup!
	
	THANKS THE GTK+ TEAM FOR THEIR EFFORT IN GREAT DOCUMENTATION.
	
	Other changes
	-------------
	- Removed options --include and --exclude from configure and a2paco.
	- Removed options --logdir and --overwrite from a2paco.
	- Various bugfixes in superpaco and a2paco.
	- Directory DATADIR/paco (usually /usr/share/paco) has become obsolete.
	  Users of this new release of paco may safely remove it.


1.7.3 [15 Jan 2005]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	paco:
	- Added option -D: When logging a package, use the name of the current
	  directory as the name of the package.
	- Added option -S: When logging a package, read the list of files directly
	  from stdin, instead of following the execution of a command.
	- Added options -Ccw, to query for the shared files of the packages.
	- Removed option -e. Now empty directories are removed by default.
	- Removed option -K. Now the logs are removed when the packages are removed
	  successfully.
	
	gpaco:
	- Upgraded to gtk+-2.4
	- Removed "Keep log" and "Remove empty directories" switches from the
	  "Remove" page.
	- Removed the gpaco man page.
	- [Bugfix] Negative total size fixed.
	- Many other bugfixes. Gpaco was a monster of eating memory.
	- Other minor improvements.
	
	other:
	- Removed script raw2paco, since the new paco option -S does its job.
	- Renamed configure option --disable-gtkport to --disable-gpaco.
	- Renamed configure option --disable-gtkcheck to --disable-gtktest.
	- [Bugfix] The script SuperPaco behaved weirdly in verbose mode.
	  
	Thanks Carlos Vendramini for testing the pre-releases of this version.


1.7.2 [29 Nov 2004]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	- Bugfix: When logging installations, some files are logged twice.
	- Allow arguments like '2kB' or '3M' to option '-b|--block-size'.
	- (GUI) Enable rules hints when displaying the files of the packages.


1.7.1 [28 Nov 2004]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	- The command line options have undergone many changes.
	- Fixed a major bug that made paco unusable on Fedora.
	- Shared files are properly detected when removing more than one package.
	- Changed the email adress to <[e-mail]>.
	- Joined rpm2paco and dpkg2paco scripts into a2paco.
	- Bugfix: properly log filenames with whitespaces.
	- Bugfix: removed spurious newlines when reading pacorc.
	- Remove tmp files on exit or fatal signal.
	- Added abbility to display the hour of installation as well as the date
	  in gpaco.


1.6 [15 Nov 2004]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	- The paco program has been split into two different binaries:
	  paco (the command line port, not linked with GTK libs), and
	  gpaco (the GTK port, linked to those libs).
	- There's a new script called SuperPaco, that installs Debian, RPM
	  or Slackware binary packages whithout dpkg, rpm or pkgtool (thanks
	  to Islam Motab for the ideas).
	- The rest of scripts were improved too.
	- There's a new configure option '--disable-scripts'.
	- There's a new paco option '-z|--no-package-name'. 
	- All man pages were moved to section 8, except pacorc one, that was
	  moved to section 5.
	- New fancy icon gp.png for gpaco.
	- Minor bugfixes / code enhancements.


1.5 [12 Oct 2004]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	- New scripts dpkg2paco and rpm2paco, that build paco logs from a local
	  RPM or dpkg database.
	- New script raw2paco, that creates paco logs from a raw list of files.
	- Added icons beside the tab titles in the package windows (GUI).
	- Beautyfied the "info" output (console) and the Properties page (GUI).
	- Added option "Set log directory to default" in the GUI.
	- Minor bugfixes.


1.4 [26 Sep 2004]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	- New '-y|--symlink' option, that shows the contents of symbolic links
	  when listing files.
	- The extended package information is also retrieved from the .lsm
	  file (Linux Software Map).
	- Read config.log when installing a package, and get the options passed
	  to configure. (by Florian Duraffourg).
	- A man page was created for pacorc.
	- The log directory can now be set in pacorc, using the LOGDIR variable.
	- The configure script is now sh compliant (tested with ash-0.4.0).
	- Minor bugfixes and code cleanups.


1.3.1 [13 Sep 2004]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	- Minor (and not so minor) bugs were fixed.
	- There's a new option '-n|--no-expand'.
	- Portability was increased.


1.3 [09 Sep 2004]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	- Added abbility to get extended package information when logging
	  packages. The info is read from the .spec file (if it exists).
	  There's a new option '-i|--info' in the console mode ("Properties"
	  in the GUI), which shows the stored information.
	- The (stupid) dependency on curses has been removed.


1.2 [03 Sep 2004]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	- [Bugfix] Can't resolve relative paths in log or query modes.
	- [Bugfix] Can't rename files in different filesystems. (thanks Pierre-
	  Francois Honore).
	- (GUI) "Remove" tab improved, added "Options" menu, added tool tips...
	- There are some new command line options.
	- Packages are listed in columns by default (ls style).
	- The configure tests were improved.


1.1 [21 Aug 2004]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	First public release.



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