Space Station Lambda

As a precursor to 0.9 which will contain much desired features like AUR system upgrades we decided to release 0.8.3 which contains a bunch of bug fixes:

• Version comparison no longer fails on provider packages (#8)
• Reinstallation works properly again (#7)
• Trying to install or get pkgbuilds for non-existent packages is handled correctly (#5 and #6)
• Question the user in case of malformed pkgbuild dependencies (#12)
• Proxy support works correctly now (#15, reported by nitralime)
• update cache after package removal (proposed by Ralith)
• handle non-Unicode strings more gracefully (#9, reported by zajca)

Syncing up

Use the quickinstall script or sync your Paktahn repo to get it.

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Merry christmas everyone!

It must be christmas of course since Paktahn 0.8.2 is now out as promised! ;D

As it often happens in software development it’s a little later than originally expected, but there’s a lot of good stuff that has made it into this release.

Highlights

• fixed arch=(any) case (reported by magus)
• proper error reporting and restarts when AUR results cannot be fetched (Brit)
• Paktahn now remembers which PKGBUILD files it already presented for review (Brit)
• Paktahn now has proper customizepkg support for AUR packages and will automatically build packages with customizepkg definitions from source (Brit)
• support for just getting a pkgbuild (i.e. yaourt -G) with pak -G pkgnames (Brit)
• makepkg’s PKGDEST variable is detected and used correctly (reported by Stefan Husmann)
• AUR package dependencies are no longer installed explicitly (reported by bram85)
• Basic proxy support (no authentication) (Brit)
• Basic versioning support (Wei Hu, Leslie)

Also, we no longer depend on a custom version of SBCL!

Thanks to Jürgen Hötzel, Wei Hu and of course my colleague Brit Butler for their help with this release.

Syncing up

Use the quickinstall script or sync your Paktahn repo to get it.

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