NEWS.md

Repoctl Releases

Version 0.22.2 (23 March 2024)

This bugfix release resolves issues downloading tarballs for packages that are built from base-packages.

• Fix: incorrect handling of packages with packagebase
• Fix: debug messages missing newline

Version 0.22.1 (20 March 2024)

This bugfix release resolves the missing xdata field support for package databases.

Version 0.22 (16 March 2024)

This release is a maintenance release, fixing some long-standing issues and also keeping up-to-date with changes to Pacman and AUR.

• Fix: support xdata field from pacman 6.1 (@intelfx).
• Fix: error reading packages leading to all packages removed (@intelfx).
• Fix: do not hardcode paths to repo-add and repo-remove (@JustTNE).
• Fix: update to use new AUR endpoint (@potatoattack).
• Fix: Remove outdated reference to --backup flag in help (@cyrinux).
• Fix: verify packages before adding them to repository.
• New: add command learned --no-verify flag to disable verification of packages prior to copying/moving them repository.
• Fix: add command verifies packages by reading them before copying/moving them to the repository.

Version 0.21 (30 August 2020)

This release brings us much closer to a 1.0 release. Many long-standing issues have been addressed and the usage of repoctl has been improved in several significant ways.

First of all, our landing page has been rewritten, so scan that and see if you can learn something useful!

• New: support configuration profiles. See conf command for configuration help and -P (--profile) flag for choosing the profile. (This resolves issue #23)
• New: full completion support for Bash, Zsh, and Fish shells.
• New: conf command added, with the following subcommands: new, edit, show, and migrate.
• New: search command learned -i (--info) flag, to show as much information in search results as possible.
• New: search command learned -b as an alias for --sort-by.
• New: query command added, to retrieve all metadata on a package in AUR.
• Remove: --backup and --backup-dir have been removed, in favor of using profiles to configure these settings.
• Remove: new command removed in favor of conf and reset.
• Remove: action_on_complete configuration item has been removed, since this causes too many problems.
• Remove: unconfigured configuration item is no longer needed (issue #53).
• Update: make output more consistent.
• Update: improve debugging, usage, and error output.
• Update: search command flag --quiet renamed to --raw.
• Update: reset command can initialize a repository now. This is also the recommended procedure for creating a new repository.
• Update: configuration is no longer required when it is not needed.
• Update: radically improve speed of reading directory of packages, which is relevant for status, update, list and down -u commands.
• Update: Streamline repository structure.
• Fix: issue #37, make backup directory if it does not exist.
• Fix: issue #52, gz, xz, bz2, and zst database compressions supported now.
• Fix: issue #57, no more errors reading zst-compressed packages.
• Fix: abort commands that modify the database when it is locked.
• Fix: only query AUR for packages when necessary.

Version 0.20 (24 July 2020)

• New: search command added, to search for matching packages in AUR.
• New down command learned -n (--dry-run) option, which is useful for showing what a recursive download would retrieve, or outputting the build order.
• Update: new config command now backs up existing configuration files.
• Update: github.com/goulash/pacman dependency moved into repository.
• Fix: version command does not show entire configuration.
• Fix: issue #46, do not panic or print errors with large repos.
• Fix: issue #33, recursive download and dependency resolution broken.

Version 0.19 (25 October 2019)

This release fixes several bugs and adds support for signatures and Zst compression.

• New: repoctl can find and add signature files that accompany packages.
• New: add command learned -l (--link) option.
• New: add command learned -r (--require-signature) option.
• New: update command learned -r (--require-signature) option.
• New: configuration file gained require_signature field.
• New: support Zstandard compression for packages.
• Update: print entire error message when system command fails.
• Update: issue #34, list command learned -r (--registered) option.
• Fix: issue #35, in which signature files are recognized as package files and are attempted to be read.
• Fix: issue #36, do not abort download when some packages not on AUR.
• Fix: issue #47, do not mishandle files compressed with Zstandard.

Version 0.18 (28 February 2018)

This release adds an alternate way to deal with obsolete package files, for better interoperability with tools like paccache (see Issue #30 for the discussion; many thanks to @maximbaz).

When backup is enabled and the backup directory resolves to the repository directory, then package files are ignored instead of moved or deleted. You can make this permanent in the configuration:

backup = true
backup_dir = ""

When this is set, you need to pass --backup=false to get repoctl to ever remove the package files, such as when using repoctl remove pkgname.

Other minor changes include:

• New: status command learned -c (--cached)
• Update: pruning the set of debug messages printed with --debug.
• Fix: pull request #31, which fixed add_params and rm_params parsing in the configuration file (contributed by @maximbaz). Previously, these were incorrectly parsed in the singular tense.

Version 0.17 (31 January 2018)

This release adds dependency resolution for the down command and fixes a bug that occurs when trying to update a repository that has more than 250 packages.

• New: down command learned -r and -o flags that resolve dependencies and write a recommended order of compilation for any downloaded packages.
• Fix: issue #28, in which AUR queries for a local database with more than 250 packages failed.
• Update: better error messages when pre/post command actions fail.
• Update: somewhat improved zsh completion (contributed by @KoHcoJlb).
• New: generated bash completion via the cobra library.

Version 0.16 (22 November 2016)

This release adds action hooks to the configuration, and shows the configuration when the version command is used.

• New: pre_action and post_action string options have been added to the configuration. These commands are run in a local shell. They can be used to mount a remote filesystem where the database is located and dismount it afterwards.
• Change: version command prints the values of the active configuration.
• Change: new config command doesn't try to be smart about database extension anymore. It's just confusing.
• Update: removing unnecessary error messages during repository creation.

Version 0.15 (2 June 2016)

This release adds regex filtering support to the list command. A small bug in the status command has been fixed, as well as with the pacman library. Nothing major however.

• New: list command learned to filter with regex argument
• Update: documentation of list command improved.
• Fix: status -m does not read AUR
• Fix: reading repository without database failing

Version 0.14 (26 April 2016)

This release rewrites repoctl to use the cobra library from spf13. Several new commands are defined: down and reset, as well as two commands being redefined update and add. Also, the core functionality is put into a library to keep the main program small.

This release changes the AUR lookup functionality to use AUR4 instead of AUR. When https://aur4.archlinux.org is the same as https://aur.archlinux.org, we will revert this change (done).

Sorry this release has taken a while, that was not to annoy you. ;-)

With Go 1.5 allowing vendoring, we stop using gb (sorry).

• New: repoctl learned command host for temporarily serving the repository on the network on a specified address and port. Something like darkhttpd may be better suited if the repository is to be hosted for longer periods of time.
• New: repoctl learned command down with several flags. See the help message for more information on this. In short, we can download and extract tarballs for updated packages, all packages, and specified packages.
• New: repoctl learned command reset.
• Change: command add has completely different semantics. See the help.
• Change: command update inherited the semantics of the old add command in addition to its current functionality.
• Change: short form of --outdated flag for list has been changed from -u to -o
• Update: AUR retrieval has been improved
• Update: using spf13/cobra as our commandline engine now
• Fix: license information correction (was BSD, is MIT)
• Fix: typographical errors

Version 0.13 (19 July 2015)

This release fixes a critical bug and updates a few other non-functional files.

• Fix: was not in correct directory when removing package files
• Update: Zsh completion understands reset command

Version 0.12 (17 July 2015)

This marks the first release where gb is used to build the project. That means that all the dependencies for this project (apart from gb itself) are contained within the project. Other changes are:

• New: simple shortcutting filter commands is now possible. Instead of aur.new you can write a.n. At the moment, both parts are required.
• New: library shortry to implement some of shortcutting behavior.
• New: filter db.missing shows packages in local database which do not have respective files. These are candidates for deletion.
• New: filter command can negate filters.
• New: default configuration is written if there is no configuration. If default configuration is not edited, repoctl refuses to run.

There are probably many more changes, but at the moment I can't be bothered to hunt them all down.

Version 0.11 (18 December 2014)

• New: The configuration file learned the field ignore_aur, which affects status and filter commands.

Version 0.10 (1 October 2014)

This release changes the versioning scheme to use semantic versioning. Since we are still changing a lot of program details and functionality, we are in an unstable state, hence the major version number being 0. We chose 10 as the minor number just because.

Additionally, there are some changes and updates:

• New: Repoctl learned the filter command, which can take certain criteria.
• Change: The status command takes no arguments anymore.
• Change: The configuration file is in the TOML format now, and it is being read (but not created yet).