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@@ -1,3 +1,115 @@ +Version 0.16.0 + + * System package manager query/installation support for Debian and Fedora + (and alike). + + The pkg-build command will now query (unless --sys-no-query is specified) + the system package manager on Debian (and alike, such as Ubuntu) and + Fedora (and alike, such as RHEL) for versions of packages that are + specified as coming from the system (the sys: scheme). For example, if + running the following command on one of these distributions: + + bpkg build hello ?sys:libsqlite3 + + Then pkg-build will query the system package manager for the installed + version of libsqlite3 and fail if none is present. + + Additionally, if --sys-install is specified, pkg-build will attempt to + install such packages if not present but available from the system package + repository. + + Other relevant options include --sys-yes, --sys-no-fetch, --sys-no-stub, + and --sys-sudo. See bpkg-pkg-build(1) for details. + + See also the `*-{name, version, to-downstream-version}` package manifest + values in the manual for details on the bpkg to distribution package name + and version mapping. + + * Binary distribution package generation support for Debian and Fedora (and + alike). + + The new pkg-bindist command can be used to automatically generate binary + distribution packages from bpkg packages for Debian (and alike, such as + Ubuntu), Fedora (and alike, such as RHEL), and for other operating systems + as archives. For Debian and Fedora, dependencies can be satisfied with + system packages, bpkg packages, or bundled. See bpkg-pkg-bindist(1) for + details. + + * Package build configuration support (*-build-config manifest values). + + A package can now customize in its manifest the build configuration used + by automated build bots. This includes specifying configuration variable + values, forcing specific versions of dependencies, satisfying dependencies + with system packages, and enabling/disabling build bot steps. For example: + + # Test with extras enabled. + # + extras-build-config: config.libfoo.extra=true + + # Test with system-installed libsqlite3. + # + system-builds: sys + system-build-config: ?sys:libsqlite3 + + # Enable Debian binary distribution generation and upload. + # + bindist-debian-builds: bindist + bindist-debian-build-include: linux_debian*-** + bindist-debian-build-include: linux_ubuntu*-** + bindist-debian-build-exclude: ** + bindist-debian-build-config: + \ + +bpkg.bindist.debian: + +bbot.bindist.upload: + \ + + See the `*-build-config` package manifest values in the manual for + details. + + * New package-description and package-description-{file,type} package + manifest values. + + Compared to the description* values, these can be used to provide a bpkg + package-specific description, such as the recommended usage, configuration + variables, etc. See the `description`, `package-description` package + manifest values in the manual for details. + + * New changes-type package manifest value and type auto-detection, similar + to description. + + See the `changes` package manifest value in the manual for details. + + * New --deorphan pkg-build option. + + This option can be used to replace orphaned packages (packages that no + longer have the corresponding package available in the repository it came + from) with the closest available package versions that satisfy all the + constraints. + + * New --mask-repository* pkg-build options. + + These options allow pretending for the duration of the pkg-build command + execution that the specified repository was removed as if by performing + the rep-remove command. + + * New --dependent-exit pkg-drop option. + + This option causes the pkg-drop command to silently exit with the + specified error code if attempting to drop dependent packages. + + * New --git-capabilities common option to override auto-detected git + capabilities. + + We now also assume the git repository protocol is smart if the HTTP + response code is 401 (requires authentication). + + * curl is now used instead of wget as the default fetch program. + + We used to prefer wget 1.16 because it has --show-progress which results + in nicer progress. But experience shows that wget is quite unreliable plus + with bdep always using curl, it would be strange to use both curl and wget + (and expecting the user to setup proxy, authentication, etc., for both). + Version 0.15.0 * New dependency declaration features: |