These are the core interfaces in the new API:
rpool - Interface to interact with the repository pool.
rindex - Interface to interact with repository indexes.
pkgdb - Interface to interact with local packages.
transaction - Interface to interact with a transaction.
This also brings new repository index format, making the index file
per architecture and being incompatible with previous versions.
The transaction frequency flush option has been removed, and due to
the nature of package states it was causing more harm than good.
More changes coming soon, but the API shall remain stable from now on.
The problem was after merging udev into systemd, udev is now a virtual pkg
and another dependency was requiring it and added systemd (real pkg) to
the list, but later in the sorting phase systemd was added again breaking
the dependency order.
1- We can cache the result of the first xbps_pkgdb_init() when it fails
and avoid the malloc/free/access from it.
2- We cache the uname(2) result into a private var in xbps_handle and
use it in xbps_pkg_arch_match().
This improves performance by ~5% approx and it's close as it was before
introducing the repository index format 1.5.
- xbps_handle::transd -> new member with transaction dictionary.
- xbps_transaction_prepare: returns an int.
- xbps_transaction_commit: doesn't need any arg now.
- xbps_repository_pool_sync: doesn't need any arg now.
- xbps_pkgdb_update: removed xbps_handle * arg.
- xbps_transaction_missingdeps_get: removed, missing_deps array is in
xbps_handle::transd("missing_deps") array object.
Now to find a virtualpkg set by the user in conf file, there is a new
function: xbps_repository_pool_find_virtualpkg(). Use it in some
places to make jpeg -> libjpeg-turbo (and other pkgs that can be
replaced with other virtual pkgs) work correctly even if installed
multiple times.
- A configuration file "xbps-conf.plist" replaces the (un)register target
in xbps-repo(8) and (un)set-prop in xbps-bin(8). For now, you can set
the repositories and prefered virtual packages.
- New package pattern matching code from NetBSD. Supports more ways of
matching patterns in packages.
- Multiple bugs fixed in virtual packages related matching code.
--HG--
rename : LICENSE => COPYING
A new function xbps_find_virtual_pkg_in_dict() has been made public
to the API to make this find duplicate packages in the transaction
when updating packages.
Benchmarks before and after the code for installing
"xorg gnome xbmc vlc firefox epdfview":
OLD
-----------------
real 0m1.844s
user 0m1.841s
sys 0m0.003s
NEW
-----------------
real 0m0.873s
user 0m0.868s
sys 0m0.004s
