January 24, 2010

Paktahn 0.8.3 released

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.

January 24th 2010 Posted to Arch Linux,Lisp

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  1. Gour
    January 25th, 2010 | 8:54 am

    Hello!

    Thanks a lot for this nice release!

    Arch Haskell team is killing yaourt ’cause it does not honor ‘provides’ and paktahn is now listed as ‘supported’ tool to be used.
    (see http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Arch_Linux/Preferred_Package_Tools )

    Congrats and all the best to release 0.9 soon.

    Sincerely,
    Gour

  2. Leslie
    January 25th, 2010 | 11:29 am

    Awesome news! That’s even more motivation for us to quickly finish automatical AUR upgrades and other features.

  3. Leslie
    January 25th, 2010 | 11:36 am

    By the way you don’t need to use sudo with Paktahn, and I think bauerbill doesn’t need it either.

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