Fink:Roadmap:0.25 new features

New features in fink 0.25

• Incremental Indexing

• SkipPrompts
  • Any more categories users would like?

• Info3
  • Can indent nicely in .info files
  • No more support for RFC-822 multi-lines
  • Can put comments in pkglist fields

• fast scanpackages with apt-ftparchive

• auto-detection of country

• Validator fixes:
  • detect InfoN property (should be wrapper)

• New --trees option restricts fink to using .info files in the chosen tree(s).

• new fink cleanup syntax

• New --maintainer mode

• New --log-output and --logfile flags to save transcripts of package building process

• Integrated scanpackages, including ability to not index restrictive packages.

• Support for running package test suites

• reevaluate fink --tree=stable list
• Validator:
  • Complain about > and < in dependency versioning (in .info).
  • dmacks: complete overhaul of .deb (val-unpack branch)
  • InfoN validator patch vasi fixed it the way he likes it
• 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.
• Info3: allow comment lines in pkglist fields

Depends: <<
  #foo-shlibs,   foo is static-only right now
  bar-shlibs
<<

• chown -h functionality during --build-as-nobody (use Command:chowname_hr?)
• dmacks: overhaul buildlocks to go away more automatically and have a cleaner cleanup
  • Automatically do cleanup when embarking on a package installation or removal
• dmacks: buildlock destruction
  • Checking via lock_wait and PreRm
  • Removal on build failure via Fink::Finally
• remove line-number in SysState error
• BuildConflicts breakage
• chown_hR is still leaving nobody-owned links.
• progress bar during indexing ("." every 100 .info processed or every 10% of set of .info processed?)—newbies to HEAD have complained index -f "has hung"...can take up to 5 minutes
• alternate checksum algorithms

Bug fixes in fink 0.25

• Fink no longer gets confused by debs in a local apt repository

• 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.

• BuildConflicts should actually work

• many more we've forgotten all about...