https://wiki.finkproject.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Fink%3ARoadmap%3A0.25_new_featuresFink:Roadmap:0.25 new features - Revision history2026-04-30T01:40:04ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.35.13https://wiki.finkproject.org/index.php?title=Fink:Roadmap:0.25_new_features&diff=37&oldid=prevChris01: changes based on dmacks comments2006-12-12T21:03:46Z<p>changes based on dmacks comments</p>
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===New features in fink 0.25===<br />
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* [[Fink:Roadmap:0.25 new features:Incremental indexing|Incremental Indexing]]<br />
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* SkipPrompts<br />
** Any more categories users would like?<br />
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* Info3<br />
** Can indent nicely in .info files<br />
** No more support for RFC-822 multi-lines<br />
** Can put comments in pkglist fields<br />
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* fast scanpackages with apt-ftparchive<br />
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* auto-detection of country<br />
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* Validator fixes:<br />
** detect InfoN property (should be wrapper)<br />
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* New <code>--trees</code> option restricts fink to using .info files in the chosen tree(s).<br />
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* new [[Fink:fink cleanup|fink cleanup]] syntax<br />
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* New <code>--maintainer</code> mode<br />
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* New <code>--log-output</code> and <code>--logfile</code> flags to save transcripts of package building process<br />
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* Integrated scanpackages, including ability to not index restrictive packages.<br />
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* [[Fink:Major_New_Feature_Plans:Test_suite|Support for running package test suites]]<br />
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* reevaluate fink --tree=stable list<br />
* Validator:<br />
** Complain about [https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=702802&group_id=17203&atid=367203 > and < in dependency versioning] (in .info).<br />
** dmacks: complete overhaul of .deb (val-unpack branch)<br />
** InfoN validator patch '''vasi fixed it the way he likes it'''<br />
* RangerRick: 'fink build foo-1.0-1' where a .deb exists in the bindist for foo-1.0-1 and UseBinaryDist is true should build locally, not fetch from the bindist.<br />
* Info3: allow comment lines in pkglist fields<br />
<pre>Depends: <<<br />
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bar-shlibs<br />
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* <code>chown -h</code> functionality during --build-as-nobody (use Command:chowname_hr?)<br />
* dmacks: overhaul buildlocks to go away more automatically and have a cleaner cleanup<br />
** Automatically do cleanup when embarking on a package installation or removal<br />
* dmacks: buildlock destruction<br />
** Checking via lock_wait and PreRm<br />
** Removal on build failure via Fink::Finally<br />
* remove line-number in SysState error<br />
* BuildConflicts breakage<br />
* chown_hR is still leaving nobody-owned links.<br />
* progress bar during indexing ("." every 100 .info processed or every 10% of set of .info processed?)—newbies to HEAD have complained <code>index -f</code> "has hung"...can take up to 5 minutes<br />
* alternate checksum algorithms<br />
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===Bug fixes in fink 0.25===<br />
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* Fink no longer gets confused by debs in a local apt repository<br />
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* When asking to choose mirrors, fink orders choices alphabetically properly, and presents a reasonable set of mirrors when the user asks for all those on a continent.<br />
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* BuildConflicts should actually work<br />
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* many more we've forgotten all about...<br />
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