Aura Changelog

1.3.8

  • Fixed behaviour of -B flags. For restoring of saved states, use the long form: aura -B –restore. Cache backups also need to take their long form: aura -C –backup.
  • Fixed handling of language flags. Thanks to Doug Patti!

1.3.5

  • Aura now uses version 5 of the aur package, to fix a critial bug
  • Updated Spanish and Polish

1.3.4

  • Bash parser bug fix. Fixes some packages.

1.3.3

  • Bash parser extended to be able to handle bash array expansions. This enables packages with more (Bash-wise) complex PKGBUILDs to build properly.

1.3.2.1

  • -Ai and -As show popularity values.
  • aur4 is no longer referenced.
  • Yes/No prompts are now localized.
  • Aura can be built with stack.
  • Updated German translation.

1.3.1.0

  • Aura builds against GHC 7.10.
  • Updated German and Russian translations.

1.3.0.4

  • Must use –builduser when building as root.
  • Bug fix regarding –needed.
  • Updated Portuguese translation.

1.3.0.3

  • Pacman flags –ignore and –ignoregroup now work.
  • Bug fixes.

1.3.0.2

  • (Bug fix) If a user tries to install a package in IgnorePkg, they will now be prompted.
  • Man page updated.
  • Dependencies updated.

1.3.0.1

  • (Bug fix) Tarballs are now downloaded from a URL provided by the RPC.

1.3.0.0

  • Last major version of Aura 1! We have entered the design phase for Aura 2, the implementation of which will transform Aura into a multi-distro package management platform.
  • Aura 1 itself has entered “legacy” mode. The only releases to be made on Aura 1 after this will be of 1.3.0.x. You’ll likely never see 1.3.1.x.
  • Befitting a major release, we have:
    • New AUR interaction layer via the aur package. This fixes nasty “AUR lookup failed” errors.
    • http-conduit dropped for wreq, which is much easier to use.
    • Better version number parsing/comparison on installation/upgrading.
    • Package state backups have had their format changed. This BREAKS _all_ previously saved states. Please delete your old ones!
    • Implemented extended –needed functionality for the AUR side of Aura. AUR packages won’t build if they’re already installed.
    • Indonesian translations!
    • Other updated translations.

1.2.3.4

  • zsh completions completely redone (thanks to Sauyon Lee!) Having aur-git installed will let you auto-complete on AUR packages.

1.2.3.3

  • -As –{head,tail} can now be passed numbers to truncate the results to any number you want. The default is 10.
  • Updated Russian translation.

1.2.3.2

  • Expanded Bash completions:
    Aura Only
    • Expanded completion for all options and search sub-options
    • Package completion for -M/–abssync
    • Completion for orphans using self-generated list
    Pacman
    • Include completion for all pacman options
    • Directory or file completion for some common options
  • Use –dryrun with -A and -M install options to test everything up until actual building would occur (dependency checks, etc.)

1.2.3.1

  • Network.HTTP.Conduit errors are now caught properly and don’t crash aura.
  • customizepkg usage corrected.
  • zsh completions slightly expanded.

1.2.3.0

  • Moved to Network.HTTP.Conduit from Network.Curl This fixes the AUR connection issues. Binary size has increased by quite a bit.

1.2.2.1

  • -Ai now shows dependencies.

1.2.2.0

  • Happy New Year!
  • makepkg’s –ignorearch flag is now visible to Aura. This allows users to build AUR packages on ARM devices without worrying about architecture restrictions in PKGBUILDs.
  • Use –head and –tail to truncate -As results.
  • -B now uses local time.
  • Bug fixes and translation updates

1.2.1.3

  • -As results now sort by vote. Use –abc to sort alphabetically.
  • “[installed]” will now be shown in -As results if you have it.
  • Fixed Bash parsing bug involving \ in arrays
  • Fixed broken -C
  • Updated Italian translation
  • Updated French translation

1.2.1.2

  • Happy Canadian Thanksgiving
  • Bug fixes

1.2.1.1

  • Norwegian translation added!
  • Dependency checks slightly faster
  • –hotedit and –custom can now be used together
  • Bug fixes

1.2.1.0

  • New builduser option
  • Prelude.head bug fixed
  • Dependency checking is faster
  • New -k output
  • –absdeps works properly now
  • Other bug fixes

1.2.0.2

  • Bug fixes and spelling corrections.

1.2.0.1

  • Fixes dependency build order bug.

1.2.0.0

  • New operator -M for building ABS packages. Has its own family of options.
  • Pre-built binary package available (x86_64 only)
  • Updates to Aura are now prioritized like pacman updates.
  • Dependency checking is now faster.
  • Use -Ccc to clean the cache of only packages not saved in any package record.
  • -Ai now shows Maintainer name.
  • Extensive API changes.

1.1.6.2

  • New option –no-pp. Disables use of powerpill, even if you have it.
  • This is a light release, as major work is being done on version 1.2 on another development branch.

1.1.6.1

  • Compatable with pacman 4.1
  • All pacman-color support removed
  • -As output slightly altered to match pacman.
  • Bug fixes.

1.1.6.0

  • New option –build for specifying AUR package build path.
  • Vote number now shown in -As output.
  • Fixed Repo/AUR name collision bug.
  • API Change: Argument order for functions in Aura/Languages changed.

1.1.5.0

  • customizepkg now usable with Aura. Activate with the –custom option.
  • API Change: Aura/Pkgbuilds now a set of libraries as Aura/Pkgbuild/*

1.1.4.3

  • Fixed flaw in -Br.
  • Fixed repititious -Ad output.
  • API Change: Aura/AurConnection renamed to Aura/AUR
  • API Change: function names in Aura/Languages now have better names.

1.1.4.2

  • Haskell deps have been moved back to makedepends.
  • haskell-http removed as dependency.
  • API Change: function naming conventions in Aura/Languages.hs has been changed. The localisation guide was also updated to reflect this.

1.1.4.1

  • Support for the $LANG environment variable.
  • Aura will now pause before post-build installation if the package database lock exists. This means you can run multiple instances of Aura and avoid crashes.

1.1.4.0

  • Serbian translation added. Thank you, Filip Brcic!
  • Fixed bug that was breaking aura -Ss.

1.1.3.0

  • Changed –save and –restore to -B and -Br. –save is now just an alias for -B, but –restore must be used with -B.
  • New option -Bc for removing old unneeded package states.
  • -Br output is now sorted better and makes more sense.
  • Bash Parser can now properly parse if blocks, meaning packages that have conditional dependencies based on architecutre will now build properly.
  • API Change: Aura.General is now Aura.Core
  • Dep Change: haskell-url no longer needed.

1.1.2.1

  • Added message to –save.

1.1.2.0

  • Bash parser completely rewritten.
  • Bug fixes (thanks to the new parser)

1.1.1.0

  • New option –devel. Rebuilds all devel packages installed.
  • Italian translation added! Thank you Bob Valantin!
  • Support for powerpill added. It will be used if installed, unless the PACMAN variable is specifically set to something different.
  • Aura can now handle PKGBUILDs that produce multiple .pkg.tar files.
  • Bug fixes

1.1.0.0

  • New –save and –restore options.
  • New option -Ak for showing PKGBUILD diffs when upgrading.
  • New option –aurignore for ignoring AUR packages.
  • Aura now reads color.conf.
  • Massive breaking API changes everywhere.
  • Aura now runs on the Aura Monad.
  • Code is quite cleaner now.

1.0.8.1

  • Bash completions added.
  • zsh completions added.
  • Changed –conf to –viewconf
  • Fixed bug involving “symlink” Haskell error.

1.0.8.0

  • Moved certain general functions to Aura.Utils
  • Moved -L, -O, -A functions out of aura.hs.
  • –hotedit functionality altered (fix).
  • The license message is now more badass.

1.0.7.0

  • New libraries: Aura.Time, Aura.State
  • Moved -C functionality to Aura.C
  • New secret option you don’t get to find out about until 1.1
  • Fixed manually alignment stupidity with -Li.
  • Bug fixes

1.0.6.0

  • New libraries: ColourDiff, Data.Algorithm.Diff, Aura.Pkgbuilds
  • Aura.AuraLib split into Aura.General, Aura.Build, Aura.Dependencies
  • New secret option you don’t get to find out about until 1.1

1.0.5.0

  • Fixed bug where packages with + in their name couldn’t be searched or built.
  • -As now allows multi-word searches, as it always should have.
  • pacman-color integration is more complete. Still does not read the color.conf directly.

1.0.4.0

  • Added French translation. Thanks to Ma Jiehong!
  • Added Russian translation. Thanks to Kyrylo Silin!
  • Fixed bug where packages with dots in their name wouldn’t build.

1.0.3.2

  • Moved haskell dependencies out of makedepends field and into depends field in PKGBUILD. Makedepends can usually be ignored after building, but haskell packages are a pain to rebuild and reregister at every build. It’s more realistic to just keep them installed. This is what other haskell packages in the AUR do as well.
  • Fixed pacman-color issues.

1.0.3.1

  • Added –auradebug option.

1.0.3.0

  • Compatibility with AUR 2.0 added.
  • Portuguese translation added. Thanks to Henry “Ingvij” Kupty!
  • Support for pacman-color added. Run sudo with -E a la:
    sudo -E aura -Ayu
  • Fixed backslash parsing bug in Bash.

1.0.2.2

  • Fixed parsing bug in Bash. If one package fell victim, a whole -Au session would fail.

1.0.2.1

  • Added License info to source files.
  • Fixed virtual package recognition bug.
  • Altered version conflict error message.
  • Fixed bug in Bash parser that would occasionally break parsing.

1.0.2.0

  • Bug fixes.
  • Extended the Bash parser. PKGBUILDs that had bash variables in their dependency arrays will now be parsed correctly.

1.0.1.0

  • German translation (use with –german). Thanks to Lukas Niederbremer!
  • Spanish translation (use with –spanish) Thanks to Alejandro Gómez!
  • Replaced regex-posix with regex-pcre.
  • -As now highlights properly.
  • Moved a number of modules to Aura/

1.0.0.0

  • Fixed -V message in terminals other than urxvt.
  • New haskell-ansi-terminal library to do this.

0.10.0.0

  • Internet access moved to Network.Curl library.

  • Bash.hs library created to help with PKGBUILD parsing. Can currently handle string expansions a la:

    "this-is-{awesome,neat}" => ["this-is-awesome","this-is-neat"]
    

0.9.2.3

  • Dependency determining speed up.
  • Added AUR URL to -Ai.

0.9.3.2

  • Swedish translation. Thanks to Fredrik Haikarainen!

0.9.2.0

  • -Ai and -As!

0.9.1.0

  • -Au is about 20 times faster.

0.9.?.?

  • Polish translation. Thanks to Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick!
  • Croatian translation. Thanks to Denis Kasak!

0.9.0.0

  • New -O operation for dealing with orphan packages.
  • A man page!

0.8.0.0

  • Help message now supports multiple languages.
  • Broke “no overlapping options” convention.
  • -Cz is now -Cb.
  • New option -Ad. Lists _all_ dependencies of an AUR package. This is to aid pre-building research. This option shows information you can’t get from looking at PKGBUILDS!

0.7.3.0

  • New option –conf. Lets you quickly view your pacman.conf.

0.7.2.3

  • –log is now -L.
  • New option -Ls. Search the log file via a regex.
  • New option -Li. Reports information on a given package that has had any appearance in the log file.

0.7.0.0

  • –hotedit option added.
  • Shell library added.

0.6.0.0

  • Aura passes proper exit codes to the shell upon completion.