Yum 3.4.3 - Changelog

What's new in Yum 3.2.26:

March 19th, 2010

User Interface changes:

· Searching will now search repo. pkgtags.
· Add a special $uuid variable to yumvars, can be used in baseurl/etc. to track machines.
· Change disk space needed message.
· Fix output of "zero sized" packages in listTransaction().
· A few minor tweaks to repolist command, main: Now outputs number of excluded packages.
· Sort skip-broken debug output.
· Add skip_if_unavailable option to repos. configuration.
· Make the "Requires missing" dep. failure text easier to read, and more informative.
· Cross arch. downgrades now work.
· If we are just doing installs, show the disk space used (nice for sizing chroot's etc.)
· Add --rpmverbosity option.
· Add "last" prefix argument to history undo/redo. Eg. "yum history redo last-1"
· Show last transaction, even if it's incomplete, when using "yum history info".
· Change history DB to only be readable by root, by default.
· Add check command.
· Add version nogroups sub-command.
· Add "clean rpmdb" sub-command.
· Process --showduplicates for obsoletes (Eg. list obsoletes).
· Show which variable is wrong when we error out of config. parsing.
· Print txmbr's as e:v-r instead of weird e-v-r.
· Drop status, when just listing disabled/enabled repos. in repolist.
· List all obsoleted pkgs. for an obsoleting pkg.
· Show releasever in "yum list" if it's not the same as current.
· Don't output usage() for bad command errors.
· Allow local*/install/downgrade/etc. to use http/ftp/https URLs (like rpm -U).
· Add long variants for all options.
· Wrap "License" field in info command.
· Add --releasever.
· Only match non-locale group names if current locale matching failed.
· Fix i18n in history.
· yum-metadata-parser is now only conditionally in run_with_package_names.
· Show script/error output in history.

Significant bugfixes:

· Scriptlet output is now setup correctly again, so history can now store it.
· Fix problems with packages that have checksum_type but no checksum_data, in history.
· Work around rpm-4.8.* API change (rpm transaction problems).
· Cross arch. downgrades now work.
· Use a tempfile for rpm transaction output.
· Fix "install foo" in multilib_policy=all when there are different versions of foo in different arches.
· Fix epoch matching in rpmdb.returnPackages() Aka. "yum list installed"
· Fix rpmdb.simpleVersion() using gpg-pubkey packages.

Resource improvement changes:

· Do reget on repo. metadata files, possible due to use of unique filenames.
· Speedup a few functions, most noticeable of which is "yum list", via. utf8_ucp_width()
· Speedup "small dep. solving, due to caching file requires and conflicts.
· Speedup rpmdb pattern matching.
· Add code to make "large" dep. solving faster, but turned off (waiting for indexes to be created by y-m-p).
· Minor speedup to dep. solving for checkInstall/checkRemove().
· Minor speedup in dep. solving for allowedMultipleInstalls().
· Add patches for using PackageSack?() in tsInfo.

API changes:

· searchGenerator() now always uses the pkgtags searching as well.
· Add the pkgtags API.
· setCacheDir() now sets .conf.cachedir.
· Add a fast option to pkg.verify().
· Add a special $uuid variable to yumvars.
· Hack the changelog data to fix the sorting problem.
· Add force argument to deselectGroup().
· Allow setting values for update notices, add add_notice().
· Update pgp module, from upstream.
· Add rpmdb.check_*() APIs.
· Add rpmdb.return_running_packages()
· Add transactionCacheFileRequires() and fileRequiresData().
· Add transactionResultVersion() and transactionCacheConflictPackages().
· Add futureRpmDBVersion().
· Never use MD5 for repomd/metalink/etc. checking, even though it was just an extra check.
· Change rpmdb.simpleVersion() to possibly return a cached value, and thus. return a string.
· Add .ui_from_repo to packages.
· Add .ui_nevra to packages.
· Add .ui_envra to packages.
· Add YumUrlPackage?()
· Add "re_remote_url()" for testing if a url is "remote".
· Add get_running_kernel_version_pkgtup().
· Only match non-locale group names if current locale matching failed.
· Add returnFileEntries(primary_only=True).
· Warn/Deprecate simpleFiles().
· Add "base package name installed" compare providers check.
· Add .base_package_name to packages.
· yum-metadata-parser is now only conditionally in run_with_package_names.