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March 18, 2010
Posted by Whitney Battestilli
3:32 AM
Conary 2.1.11 Released

Conary 2.1.11 is a maintenance release.

New Features:
  • The recreatedb script is now capable of populating the Conary database with packages in the RPM database that are found in the Conary repositories in the installLabelPath. (CNY-3373)
Internal Changes:
  • Added ability to commit changesets without executing capsule implementations. This allows us to build a conarydb which reflects the current state of a system without reinstalling packages through the capsule handler.
Bug Fixes:
  • The Java package policies for computing provides and requires are now more efficient. (CNY-3372)
March 16, 2010
Posted by Whitney Battestilli
1:00 AM
Conary 2.1.10 Released

Conary 2.1.10 is a maintenance release.

New Features:
  • The "conary migrate" command no longer requires interactive mode, and now defaults to yes rather than no. (CNY-3361)
  • Added --diff option to verify and showchangeset commands to display output as a git-formatted diff.
  • Added --new-files option to verify to include files which were added to the system outside of conary package management. The verifyDirsNoNewFiles configuration option was added to pare down the tree conary looks through for new files.
  • Added exceptions and exceptDeps options to RPMRequires.
Internal Changes:
  • Optimized StreamCollection diff and eq operations to use frozen data if available.
  • Merged internals of localcs/verify implementation into new classes.
  • Flavor objects can now be used with the stdlib "pickle" module.
Bug Fixes:
  • SSL XMLRPC connections will now retry before raising an exception (CNY-3369)
  • Java requirements for classes depending on other classes for which provides have been dropped no longer propagate as trove or file requirements. (CNY-3362)
  • Auto-sourced files will now be fetched through an proxy if the appropriate *_proxy environment variable is set of the a proxy is configured for conary. (RBL-5714)
  • Lookaside fixed for files that have identical names but different contents (CNY-3256)
  • Jobs would be split inappropriately when capsules were pulled in through dependency resolution (CNY-3367)
February 22, 2010
Posted by Michael K. Johnson
10:50 PM
Pleasant Surprises

My wife found her smartphone screen cracked recently. AT&T told her to suck it up and buy a new phone, and the local independent shop couldn't fix her phone. I had a great deal of trepidation about sending the phone off to some random place I googled, but in the end sent it off to Jet City Devices in Seattle.

They turned the repair in about an hour from the phone's arrival on a Saturday (!) afternoon, and had it back in the mail same day, so that it arrived back in North Carolina on Monday with a new screen.

Good Work!

February 10, 2010
Posted by Michael K. Johnson
11:04 PM
Conary 2.1.9 Released

Conary 2.1.9 is a bug fix release.

Bug Fixes:
  • The NO_PROXY environment variable no longer applies to conary proxies. (CNY-3360)
Posted by Michael K. Johnson
11:00 PM
rBuild 1.2.2 released

rBuild 1.2.2 is a maintenance release.

New Features:
  • The "rbuild rebase" command now saves product definition files in the latest version supported by the associated rBuilder, rather than the latest version supported by the installed rpath-product-definition. (RBLD-298)
Bug Fixes:
  • The "rbuild rebase" command now fails when the rBuilder does not support the product definition schema version only if the schema version is being changed. (RBLD-297)

Associated with rBuild 1.2.2, rpath-product-definition 4.0.1 is a maintenance release.

Bug Fixes:
  • The compatibility interfaces created for RPCL-63 are now compiled. (RPCL-64)
  • The api1 module now properly sets __all__ to include all public interfaces.
  • The preMigrateVersion property now reflects the version of the product definition as found in the serialized XML representation prior to applying all migrations. (RPCL-66)
  • Older versions of product definition XML data can now be saved. (RPCL-67)