January 10, 2010

Paktahn 0.8.2 released

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.

January 10th 2010 Posted to Arch Linux,Lisp

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  1. Wei
    January 11th, 2010 | 4:44 am

    Congratulations!

  2. Magnus (magus)
    January 12th, 2010 | 5:46 pm

    Excellent, I noticed it dropping in via pacman (thanks to the kind soul who compiles it for 64-bit).

    Loved that it supported ‘-G’ on the packages kept in subversion too. That makes things so easy!

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