2.0.9
^^^^^
+ Fixed minor bug in GPaco.
2.0.8 [26 June 2010]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+ GPaco: Change column visibility when clicking on Preferences
buttons. Changed some icons for some menu items, to a more
intuitive ones.
+ Pacoball: Removed option --fakeroot (too cryptic).
+ Paco: Removed option --ignore-shared.
+ Auxiliary scripts are now installed by default, and may be
disabled with --disable-scripts.
2.0.7 [30 Aug 2009]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+ Simplified debug messages when logging packages.
+ Fixed compilation error in Ubuntu (thanks Jerry Jacobs :-)
+ [gpaco] Removed "Import RPM" feature.
+ [gpaco] Fix package selection issues in the main window.
+ [gpaco] Removed "Update" option in package popup menus.
+ [gpaco] Added menu "Package" in the main window.
2.0.6 [9 Oct 2008]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Changes in gpaco:
+ Moved configuration file from ~/.gpacorc to ~/.config/gpaco/gpacorc.
+ Enhanced performance and fixed some minor bugs.
2.0.5 [27 Aug 2008]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Changes in gpaco:
+ Removed size unit setting from the preferences dialog (now sizes are
always displayed in "human readable" format).
+ Removed command line option -L.
+ Moved items in menu "View" to the "Preferences" dialog.
+ Removed option to enable/disable the tooltips in Preferences.
+ Removed option to enable/disable the rules hint (now they are always
enabled).
+ Upgraded to GTKMM >= 2.12
+ bugfix: Avoid bzip2ing of the bzip2 executable or gzipping of the gzip
executable.
+ "Select all / unselect all" in the Edit menu.
Other changes:
+ Removed option -x|--expand in pacoball.
2.0.4 [20 Feb 2008]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+ [bugfix] BLOCK_SIZE variable in pacorc was not properly recognized
(thanks Kevin Williams).
+ [bugfix] When appending files to a log, sizes of missing files were
cleared.
+ [pacoball] Archive symlinks to missing files too (thanks Sergei Butakov).
+ [rpm2paco] Bugfix: Option -q caused the program to exit.
2.0.3 [17 Jul 2007]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+ Removed repeated text in the man page of paco (thanks Georg
Grafendorfer).
+ The option '-x|--expand' has been removed (though it is silently ignored
for backwards compatibility). Now the command line package names are
automatically expanded like in rpm(8), except when logging packages. In
this case the package name must be introduced exactly.
+ Do not search for the name of the package in config.log (thanks Mirco
Lorenzoni).
+ Fix a doubled DESTDIR bug in doc/Makefile (thanks Matthew Bruenig).
+ Rewritten libpaco-log in C. This prevents a glibc installation failure
when building LFS in chapter 6.
+ Fixed bug that made paco log compressed files twice in some cases.
+ Use RTLD_NEXT in libpaco-log. Fixes bug in some systems (thanks Roland
Schatz).
+ When logging installations, files in /proc are always excluded,
regardless of the variable EXCLUDE in pacorc or the arguments to the
option -E|--exclude.
+ Better strip the release suffix in rpm2paco and superpaco.
+ [gpaco] Fixed several problems in "Import RPM database".
2.0.2 [21 Jun 2007]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+ [gpaco] Simplified the preferences dialog.
+ [gpaco] Fixed segmentation fault when the configuration file is missing
(thanks Georg Grafendorfer).
+ [rpm2paco] New option "-j|--sync-version".
2.0.1 [11 Jun 2007]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+ Fixed rpm2paco and ocap scripts! (were broken in 2.0.0).
+ Fixed compilation error in Fedora7 x86_64 (thanks Sawa).
+ New command line option --log-missing.
+ [gpaco] New feature "Import RPM database" (it is a graphic
frontend to rpm2paco).
2.0.0 [6 Jun 2007]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Both paco and gpaco have been rewritten in C++.
Gpaco uses (and depends on) the GTKMM libraries (the C++ bindings for GTK+).
There is not backwards compatibility with paco-1 databases, but they can be
updated automatically by running 'paco -au' right after installing paco-2.
Please note that version 1 databases can be converted to version 2 without
any information loss, but the opposite is not true, so it is advisable to
backup old databases before upgrading.
Changes in the user interface:
------------------------------
+ The default install prefix has been restored to /usr/local.
+ New command line switch -B, which is an alias for --batch.
+ New options --ignore-errors and --ignore-shared (see the man page of paco
for more details).
+ The option -U is no longer used along with -r. The same effect can be now
achieved with -rr.
+ The debuging messages have been slightly reformatted.
+ PACO_INCLUDE and PACO_EXCLUDE environment variables are no longer honoured
when logging package installations. Pacorc options INCLUDE and EXCLUDE
should be used instead.
+ The usage of options -c and -N have changed in order to achieve a more
consistent interface. Now they must be used toghether with -f and/or -m.
For example, to list the shared missing files use -cm, and to list all non
shared files use -Nfm.
+ New pacorc variables LOG_IGNORE_SHARED and CASE_SENSITIVE (see the man
page of pacorc for more details).
+ Always return the exit code of the install command when logging
installations, even if the option --ignore-errors is used (thanks Arthur
Demchenkov).
+ [gpaco] New "Strip" feature in the file list context menu (by Victor
Ananjevsky).
+ [gpaco] Yellow background for missing files is no longer used. Instead, a
new status column has been added in the list of files, showing whether the
file is installed or not. This column is sortable, allowing for easy
selection of files based on their existence.
+ [gpaco] Remember the last selected folder, compression program and
compression level when creating binary packages.
+ [rpm2paco] Rewritten in bash (it was bourne shell compatible).
+ [rpm2paco] Upgraded to paco-2 databases.
+ [rpm2paco] Already logged packages are now skipped by default. The new
option --force must be used to overwrite the old logs.
+ [ocap] New option -L|--logdir.
+ [ocap] Renamed option -V to -v (for --version).
+ [pacoball] The logs of the packages are included in the pacoballs. Then
when extracting a pacoball, the package information is restored again
(only if the extraction is logged, using option --log). Thanks Arthur Demchenkov.
+ [pacoball] Pacoballs have now the suffix '.paco.tar.gz' instead of
'-paco.tar.gz'. Those created with gpaco follow the same rule.
Internal changes / Fixed bugs:
------------------------------
+ The info logs (those in LOGDIR/_info/) have been removed. Now package
information is written in the same log as the list of installed files.
This is what makes paco-2 databases unusable with paco-1.
+ The file config.status is not read when logging package installations,
since it is not fairly parsable.
+ Properly keep track of directory renaming when logging installations (by
Vladimir A. Pavlov).
+ In libpaco-log, the global errno is saved and restored across handling of
system calls, thereby interfering minimally with the install process.
Also, files are logged only upon successful system calls. This fixes some
bugs (thanks Vladimir A. Pavlov).
+ Do not print error messages when LOGDIR does not exist or is not writable.
1.10.12 [14 Nov 2006]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+ Fixed another double free() bug in paco (thanks Mirco Lorenzoni)
1.10.11 [08 Nov 2006]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+ Removed option '-V|--variable' in paco.
+ Removed pacorc option CLEAR_EMPTY. Empty logs are allways removed from
the database.
+ Fixed segmentation fault when reading empty lines from the configuration
file (thanks Roebe XXX).
+ Updated the paco_bash_completion script (thanks Christian Schneider)
+ [gpaco] Fixed a "Too many open files" bug when compressing a large number
of files.
+ [gpaco] Fixed "double free" bug.
1.10.10 [29 Jul 2006]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This release fixes a bug in release 1.10.9: paco made a segmentation fault
when reading package information from setup.py
1.10.9 [28 Jul 2006]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Paco:
+ Allow shell wildcards in options -e, -E and -I (see the man page).
+ Read information from setup.py when installing Python packages.
+ Added a blank line between different packages when listing shared files.
+ New option '-N|--non-shared', to list the non-shared files of the
packages (thanks Thomas Schwarzgruber).
Gpaco:
+ Remove obsolete info logs when updating the database (as in paco).
+ Make the main window insensitive when updating the database.
+ Removed the "Update" button in the list of files.
+ Fixed an integer overflow in the number of missing files on 64 bit
architectures (thanks Christian Schneider).
+ New option for testing the integrity of the binary packages.
+ Make the columns in the main window reorderable, and remember its order
between sessions.
+ New column "Summary" in the list of packages (thanks Mickael "Mega MoiX").
+ New columns "Size %" and "Files %" in the list of packages.
+ Use .ini-like syntax for the configuration file (~/.gpacorc)
+ Changed selection behaviour in the list of files.
+ Multiple package selection is now allowed.
+ Minor bugfixes.
Other:
+ Pacoball option '--prefix' renamed to '--root' (--prefix is still
supported to provide backwards compatibility).
+ New options '--fakeroot' and '--test' in pacoball.
+ New script ocap. It scans the system and finds all files not logged in the
paco database.
+ Added the paco_bash_completion script into the distribution.
+ Removed configure option '--enable-wordexp'. Only the environment variable
HOME is honoured in pacorc.
+ Removed configure options '--enable-ansi' and '--enable-werror'.
+ Fixed doubled DESTDIRs in doc/Makefile.am (thanks Mark Rosenstand).
1.10.8 [26 May 2006]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
General:
+ [bugfix]: Compilation errors in Solaris.
+ [bugfix]: Segmentation fault if /etc/pacorc is missing.
+ Added (more) missing DESTDIRs in Makefiles.
+ New configure option '--enable-scripts' (see INSTALL).
Paco:
+ When removing packages, do not ask for confirmation to remove them from
the database. If the package is completely uninstalled it is automatically
removed from the database. If any file is not removed due to errors or
because it is shared, the package is not removed from the database unless
option -U is used.
+ Enhanced the man pages.
Gpaco:
+ Integrated the "binary package" dialog into the window of the package, as
a new tab.
+ Replaced progress dialogs by progress bars in the status bar.
+ Prevent users without write permissions on the paco database to remove,
compress or uncompress files.
+ Removed the (dangerous) button "Close" in the remove page.
Sccripts:
+ Removed option '-o' in pacoball. Bugfixes and enhancements.
+ Added script superpaco into the main paco distribution. Added a new
option '-n|--no-paco' to install the packages without paco. Fixed a bug
that prevented symlinks and hidden files to be properly installed
(thanks Dan Nicholson and Thomas Schwarzgruber). Other bugfixes.
+ Bugfix in pacoball: Input tarballs not recognized.
1.10.7 [29 Apr 2006]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+ [bugfix]: symlinks not logged (thanks Tor Olav and Thomas Schwarzgruber).
+ New feature in gpaco: removing files can be interrupted with a "Stop"
button, and resumed again with a "Resume" button.
+ New option '--owner', which is just a more intuitive alias for '--query'.
+ Changed the behaviour of option '-V|--variable' (see the man page).
+ Allow '--sort=time' as an alias for '--sort=date' in paco.
+ Reintroduced the script pacoball in the main paco distribution.
1.10.6 [21 Apr 2006]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+ [bugfix]: gpaco: files could not be manually removed, compressed or
uncompressed.
+ [bugfix]: extra line read from info file broke option '-o'. (Thanks
Daniel Eklöf).
1.10.5 [4 Apr 2006]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+ Fixed compilation errors in NetBSD.
+ New configure option "--enable-wordexp" (see INSTALL).
+ Fixed a bug in 1.10.4 release that made paco skip /foobar files if
directory /foo had to be excluded.
+ Minor bugfixes.
+ Upgrade is recommended.
1.10.4 [1 Apr 2006]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+ [bugfix]: option '-m' broken (missing files not listed).
+ [bugfix]: EXCLUDE'd paths actually not excluded (thanks Kristian Gavran).
+ [bugfix]: gpaco crashed when updating inexistent logs.
+ Beautified the debugging output when logging packages.
+ Restored the configure option "--with-paco-logdir".
+ Added configure option "--enable-werror".
+ Changed the default install prefix to /usr (was /usr/local).
+ [gpaco]: fixed some problems when managing big packages.
+ New options BLOCK_SIZE and LOG_IGNORE_ERRORS in pacorc.
+ Expand any environment variable in pacorc (not only HOME); and more
(read the man page of pacorc for more information).
+ Removed internationalisation.
+ Type "make logme" right after installing paco, and it will log the own
paco's installation :-)
+ Fixed more missing DESTDIRs in the Makefiles.
+ Do not allow users to remove, update, log or unlog packages if they do not
have write permissions on the paco log directory (thanks Kristian Gavran).
1.10.3 [4 Mar 2006]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+ Fixed missing DESTDIR in doc/Makefile (thanks Dan Nicholson).
+ Tested successfully with gcc-4.0.0.
+ Removed paco.spec from the tarball. Created paco.pc. This allows for
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.
+ [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 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).
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.
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.
- 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.
