CHANGES ------- Version 2.3.1 - Release 2015-03-28 ================================== - adds repos.conf dir creation if it doesn't exist - fixes bug #540012 - moves Layman class initialization into a layman sub-file - renames layman.py to Layman.py - corrects misspelling of "separate" - changes default conf_type to "repos.conf" - changes arg group "Additions Options" to "Path Options" - adds protocol filtering for Overlay.{add, update}() - adds binary mode aware compatibility to fileopen() - adds sanity checking for repos_conf location - fixes Unicode() external test Version 2.3.0 - Release 2015-02-08 ================================== - Renamed portage sync plugin to laymansync - adds portage sync plugin to setup.py for installation - Completely removes doctest remnants - adds fix that quells initial warning if layman does not see an install.xml file - adds spelling correction on external.py header - modifies remotedb.py to reflect ssl-fetch changes - fixes misuse of .keys() in maker.py causing py3.x compat issues - whitespace cleanup in maker.py - adds skipping of protocol verification if protocol guessing fails in maker.py - fixes undefined xml error in maker.py - adds checks for which archive overlay types to test in external test suite - converts all assertEquals calls to assertEqual (assertEquals will be deprecated) - modifies and improves testing method for external test suite - renames self.overlay to self.overlays in reposconf.py - modifies output message encoding to become indiscriminate on type - changes ssl-fetch kwargs-info level to 5 to limit verbosity - modifies checking for sync plugin name to reflect new name in reposconf.py - layman-updater updates for better repos.conf migration Version 2.2.0 - Release 2014-09-28 ================================== - man page updates - Portage sync plug-in to sync layman overlays via portage - layman-overlay-maker utility to create overlay definitions - Multiple description field support - reloading config function to get local overlay definitions - output attribute to OptionConfig - branch and layman-type info to repos.conf configs - sync-type checking for repos.conf configs - New --storage cli option to specify where you want an overlay installed - fixes bug when overlay isn't in the remote list - New --disable and --enable cli option to globally disable a locally installed overlay - Centeralizes archive overlay type code - Changes clean_tar config option to clean_archive - fixes hard-coded defaults and EPREFIXIFIES repos_conf config option - fixes format string in _verify_overlay_type function - renames --setup_help cli option to --setup-help - adds support for multiple cli option args - adds interactive session for unofficial overlay installations - migrates docstring tests to external test-suite - adds layman-mounter utility handle overlay mounting - adds squashfs overlay support - adds squashfs overlay external tests - adds modular plug-in system - makes overlay types modular plug-ins - makes repo config types modular plug-ins - removes g-common overlay support - fixes output use in proxies() - fixes default command line value overriding of overlay_defs and storage config options - fixes improper tracking of operation results for Overlay.update() - adds use of repos.conf module plug-in when running layman-updater - adds check in repos.conf to write all overlays to a blank file - fixes improper import of make.conf module in updater.py - fixes closing of iterable file extension list in tar.py Version 2.1.0 - Released 2014-07-23 =================================== - man page updates - python 2.7 and python 3.x compatibility - migrate from optparse to argparse - Support for repos.conf configuration files - RepoConfManager to handle all repo configuration types - URL updating for outdated source URLs - Command line option to re-add an overlay - Overlay type checking to ensure the overlay type of an installed overlay is the same as the overlay type reported by the remote database - IRC and branch tag support for overlay xmls - clean_tar config option to clean up local tar overlay files Version 2.0.0 final - Released 2012-12-16 ========================================= - re-released rc5 as 2.0.0 final Version 2.0.0_rc5 - Released 2012-11-19 ======================================= - fix a regression in calling read_config() - fix layman-updater when creating a new make.conf file - fix truncating of long overlay names - remove a mispelled duplicate program file - auto-detect portage's make.conf location Version 2.0.0_rc4 - Released 2012-10-20 ======================================= - man page updates, formatting changes - fix unknown variable - fix bug 384085, deprecated "bzr get" to "bzr branch" - py2, py3 compatability changes so 2to3 will work correctly (unfinished) - make the tests more py3 compatibile - improve the usage to include an example of multiple actions - Add cwd=base to git's add() run_command function call. This fixes Bug 396643 in selinux and newer git. - change to only wrap the '*' with the color, not the spaces around it - Add news reporting capability to meet GLEP 42 requirement - several news fixes - fix bug 408897 for when profiles/repo_name is not the same as the layman overlay name - config fixes - set some sane defaults for stdout, stderr, stdin - Bug 390127 fix: for an extra level parameter in the error _output() calls - Bug 433687. Add setting the default user name and email when adding new git based overlays. - Bug 408039. An an automatic 'svn upgrade' capability for svn type repos - doctest updates. - Fix bug 372583. Don't add redundant trailing slashes on src uri's where trailing slashes are required - move the rename_db code to a standalone updater utility Version 2.0.0_rc3 - Released 2011-09-17 ======================================= - fix wrong variable name in the layman.cfg explanations - remove some dead ERROR constants - fix success reporting identified in bug 379779. Improve and change error output from info(), warn() to error() - set some options to the ones passed in that were previously missed - continue establishing a proper high level interface - pass the input parameters to MessageBase - clean out nearly useless quiet parameter, use config['quiet'] instead - rename local_list to installed, create an update function to migrate the change - fix a missed conversion to using the Message class - fix bug 381853, remove the noise level param as error() does not have it like the other output functions - fix typo, bug 382785 - better explain the variable change Version 2.0.0_rc2 - Released 2011-08-10 ======================================= - fix success mistracking - change raising an exception to outputing the error - fix --list --verbose functionality, bug 375779 - update manpage - add overlay_defs option to layman.cfg - fix existing tests. add new tests for new classes update all tests to pass - fix undefined 'subpath' - fix setting the timestamp from the remote server, bug # 376601 - fix the overly noisy output for unsupported overlay types - add supported_types() to the api - add --debug-level to cli options and code Message.debug() - fix broken UnknownOverlayException - fix error reporting in the api, refactor action & error processing/tracking. - add a space before the * in the output func()'s as per "Etal"'s forum request - fix a bug causing it to not get the correct config path - fix typo causing traceback in bug 377401 comment # 31 - clean out some dead code. - fix task spacing for running multiple tasks - eliminate a duped error output - run "svn cleanup..." for keyboard interrupts, bug 377035 - fix bug 378097. unofficial installed overlays not printing - make it EPREFIX ready - restore python 2.5 compatibility ------- Version 2.0.0_rc1 - Released 2011-06-06 ======================================= - major rewrite of the api's, extensions, new cli-api connections, other enhancements... Version 1.4.2-r2 - Released 2011-04-28 ====================================== - fix bug 363797 python-2.5 test errors. - fix broken *args for python 2.5 and 2.6+ Version 1.4.2 - Released 2011-02-08 =================================== - Fixed: Ignore case when sorting data for layman -l|-L - Fixed: Improve documentation on option nocheck (bug #267686) Version 1.4.1 - Released 2010-07-09 =================================== - Fixed: Catch keyboard interrupts (Ctrl+C) while running child processes properly - Fixed: doctest error in tar overlay code (bug #327491) Thanks to David Abbott for reporting! Version 1.4.0 - Released 2010-07-08 =================================== - Handle command line calls "layman" and "layman foo" better. Former now shows a usage summary while latter now reports an error. Both of them kept quiet before. - Replace os.system() by subprocess.Popen() - Close stdin of child processes when run in quiet mode to avoid running into infinite and blindly interactive sessions. Version 1.3.4 - Released 2010-07-05 =================================== - Propagate move of cvs and subversion from dev-util/* to dev-vcs/* (bug #311419, bug #307849) Version 1.3.3 - Released 2010-04-08 =================================== - Fix syncing of SVN overlays for users of SVN <1.6.5 (bug #313303) - Fix handling of empty XML entities (bug #309617) - Fix missing import (bug #306143) - Extend in-config docs on proxy handling (bug #300651) - Propagate move of bzr, darcs, git, mercurial from dev-util/* to dev-vcs/* (bug #311419) Version 1.3.2 - Released 2010-02-20 =================================== - Fix syncing of tar overlays (bug #304547) - Hint about broken overlay catalog (bug #304781) Version 1.3.1 - Released 2010-02-05 =================================== - Fix handling of CVS overlays (bug #301689) Thanks for the patch to Dmitry Karasik! - Fix handling of non-existing overlays (bug #301612) - Now delete empty overlay directories (bug #301612) .. - on deletion of a non-existing overlay and - after failed addition of an overlay. Version 1.3.0 - Released 2010-01-19 =================================== - Move storage default from /usr/local/portage/layman to /var/lib/layman (fixes bug #253725) - Syncing failed for overlays that no longer exist in the remote lists without need to (bug #301174) - No longer treat sync warnings like errors (bug #301327) - Fix faults introduced at refactoring (bug #301253) Version 1.3.0_rc1 - Released 2010-01-15 ======================================= - Add support for several sources per overlay (also fixes #280472) When adding an overlay all sources will be probed until a working one is found. This should help Layman through some firewalls. - Display related directory when deleting overlays - Improve overlay info display (i.e. layman -i): - Add quality indicator (keep in mind: no guarantee) - Add feed URIs - Fix whitespace handling for description field - Improve layman usage display Version 1.2.6 - Released 2010-01-12 =================================== - Warn on lack of write permissions (fixes #260218) - Migrate to GNU tar's compression format auto-detection which adds potential support for more types of compressed tar archives (LZMA, xz or Z) as a side-effect (Requires GNU tar 1.15 or later, released in 2005) - Drop support for broken tar overlays with missing category level (and missing profiles/repo_name as a consequence) - Make missing overlay directory not fail removal of that overlay from the local list - Start shipping doc sources and release notes with release archives - Start shipping test suite files missing from the 1.2.5 release Version 1.2.5 - Released 2010-01-04 =================================== - Allow overriding of VCS commands - Migrate XML handling from minidom to ElementTree (also fixes #261666) - Allow running VCS from PATH (fixes #280539) - Fix handling of Subversion overlays whose name contains one or more '@' characters (#295018) - Fix handling of non-ASCII characters (#286290) Version 1.2.4 - Released 2009-12-05 =================================== - Add option "-d" to calls of "cvs update" so it checks out new directories properly (#278807) - Fix reading of CDATA sections - Add support for repositories.xml database format - Substitute path "/usr/portage/local/layman" by "/usr/local/portage/layman" in the documentation (#271457) - Fix grammar errors in program output (#259188) Version 1.2.3 - Released 2009-01-01 =================================== - Support setting the terminal screen width (also fixes #253016) - layman -S fetches each overlay twice (#253241) Version 1.2.2 - Released 2008-12-28 =================================== - layman -L: better use of screen real estate for source URLs (#251032) - Execute subprocesses in a shell. Fixes app-portage/layman-1.2.1: --quietness=2 is broken (#247792) - app-portage/layman - 'layman -S --quiet' yields "git: 'pull-q' is not a git-command." (#247964) Version 1.2.1 - Released 2008-11-15 =================================== - Pass --quiet flag down to the version control system (#236165). - Fixes for python-2.6 (#237625) - Better locale support (#235165) - Handle git+ssh://, ssh:// correctly (#230702) - Do not remove directories if adding an overlay failed (#236945) Version 1.2.0 - Released 2008-06-02 =================================== - Fixed --info call (#198483) - Added umask setting (#186819) - Switched default storage location from /usr/portage/local/layman to /usr/local/portage/layman (#219786) - Added optional version control useflags (#168203)