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VERSION         DESCRIPTION
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3.4.1         - fix interaction of --needed and multiple repo groups (FS#20221)
              - bash completion: small fixes to prevent alias problems
              - rankmirrors: fix bogus/empty variable assignment (FS#19911)
              - repo-add: ensure bare DB symlinks are relative (FS#20498)
              - repo-add: fallback to copy if symlink not permitted (FS#19907)
              - makepkg:
                - use absolute path to 'du' to exclude wrapper progs (FS#19932)
                - ensure $startdir check doesn't stall indefinitely (FS#19975)
                - fix repackaging with multiple passed packages (FS#20272)
              - translations:
                - zh_CN: fix crash when using during install (FS#20188)
                - sk: new Slovak translation
                - pt: new European Portuguese translation
                - other small updates to various translations
3.4.0         - new "Architecture" option that will restrict pacman to
                installing only packages from the given architecture. Can be
                set to "auto" in which case the output of "uname -m" is used
              - use "$arch" when specifying a mirror url to automatically
                select the correct architecture
              - Installing packages with -U can handle installing
                dependencies, conflict resolution and replacing packages
                (FS#3492, FS#5798)
              - can upgrade the system and install a new package using 
                "pacman -Syu <pkg>" (FS#15581)
              - new -D/--database operation for modifying package install
                reasons (FS#12950)
              - new --print and --print-format options to output information
                in suitable format for wrapper scripts (FS#14208)
              - only extract new entries when updating a repo database
              - show "Required by" in -Sii output (FS#16244)
              - -U and -R options always ask for confirmation
              - allow -Qo to perform a functional 'which' (FS#8798)
              - cache cleaning cleans all directories, not just first
              - cleanupdelta: new utility to help remove unused deltas from
                a repo database 
              - bash completion: rewrite for size and performance (FS#16630)
              - repo-add: handle removing the final package from a repo
              - rankmirrors: rewrite using bash
              - vercmp: does not link to libalpm to prevent upgrade issues
              - makepkg:
                - automatically aborts on any errors during packaging
                - changelogs are now included via the "changelog" variable
                - override pkgver, pkgrel and arch in split packages (FS#15955)
                - repackaging without a package() function is deprecated
                - stricter syntax checking for backup and optdepends entries
                - file stripping options are configurable
                - New --pkg flag to allow building specific package(s) from
                  split PKGBUILDs (FS#15956)
                - build() function is now optional (FS#15147)
                - warn about reference to build root in a package (FS#14751)
                - configure source package destination with SRCPKGDEST
                - major internal refactoring of handling tests ("[" to "[[")
              - contrib/pactree: print reverse dependency tree
3.3.3         - correctly check the return code from opendir()
              - fix possible infinite loop in alpm_list_remove()
              - makepkg:
                - quote arrays to preserve spaces in arrays (FS#16871)
                - allow passing arguments with spaces
                - adjust preselected option for clearing cache
              - translations:
                - zh_CN: fix positional parameter usage in makepkg (FS#16983)
                - el: fix Y/N response translation (FS#16568)
3.3.2         - fix infinite filesize download issue (FS#16359)
              - fix bogus download size on TotalDownload
              - documentation updates
              - small translation updates
              - repo-add: use size of target files and not symlinks
              - repo-remove: create empty DB when all packages are removed
3.3.1         - use full path to ldconfig when calling in chroot
              - optimize the check for modified databases during sync
              - ensure installed libfetch is new enough
              - have -Q ops return 1 when no package matches (FS#15938)
              - skip SyncFirst dialog if unnecessary (FS#15810)
              - misc documentation updates (FS#15870, FS#15984)
              - testdb: be less verbose during checks
              - existing translation updates
              - two new translations: Norwegian, Swedish
              - makepkg:
                - add --skipinteg option (FS#15830)
                - fix .PKGINFO creation with -R option (FS#15851)
                - always keep symlinks to sources when unpacking
3.3.0         - xdelta: many fixes and improvements
                - new pkgdelta script to create deltas
                - repo-add can add both deltas and packages to a database
              - xz archive format supported for packages and databases
              - in case of unresolvable packages, pacman now asks
                if they should be skipped instead of aborting
              - -Suu synchronizes all packages with the version from the
                repository (including upgrade and downgrade)
              - replace libdownload dependency by the original libfetch
              - better support of -q/--quiet flag with -Qo and -Ql
              - -Sp works without root (FS#8905)
              - fix a bug where the replacement of a package failed because
                of a file conflict, and the package was lost (FS#9088)
              - improved behavior of HoldPkg option (FS#9173)
              - allow to ignore a package from a group (FS#12059)
              - search package groups when searching a db (FS#13099)
              - asciidoc fixes
              - documentation updates
              - repo-add: cleanups, improvements and speedup
              - makepkg:
                - package splitting support! - see PKGBUILD-split.proto
                - limit fakeroot usage with addition of package() function
                - info is handled like man pages and not other documentation
                - configuration option for man/info page directories
                - added ability to automatically remove files from package
                - configuration option for default LDFLAGS
                - specify alternative configuration file with --config flag
                - check all integrity checksums provided in PKGBUILD
                - fix pkgver/pkgrel updating in SCM packages
                - BUILDSCRIPT option removed from makepkg.conf. Now specified
                  during configure
                - enforce no ">" or "<" in provides array
                - package compression autodetection
                - check PKGBUILD for CRLF line endings
                - fix reading PKGBUILD from pipe
                - increase compatibility with BSDs & Mac OSX
              - contrib
                - pacdiff - improvements and new -l flag for using locate
                - pacscripts - print install scripts for a package
3.2.2         - log pacsave warnings to pacman.log (FS#12531)
              - separate local DB creation and writing (FS#12263)
              - pacman-optimize: rewrite and refresh (FS#11767)
              - repo-add: use openssl instead of md5sum
              - simplify doc building process for ease of development
              - ensure correct handling of syscall interruptions
              - readd missing newline on -Qi/-Si output (FS#11331)
              - fix TotalDownload regression (FS#11339)
              - makepkg:
                - replace getopt with an internal function
                - detect incorrect usage of provides (FS#12540)
                - fix bash substitution to work in older versions
                - fix updating PKGBUILD and simplify logic for SCM packages
                - save/restore shell options before/after build() (FS#12344)
              - documentation updates and asciidoc build fix
              - existing translation updates
3.2.1         - drop special handling of file:// URLs
              - display optdepends on install and upgrade
              - fix segfault on x86_64 when using UseSyslog (FS#11096)
              - fix detection of TotalDownload (FS#11180)
              - fix "No such file" error during --force installs (FS#11218)
              - better handling of progressbar when behind a proxy (FS#8725)
              - repo-add: fix whitespace handling (FS#9171, FS#10630)
              - repo-add: add optdepends to the sync DB (FS#10630)
              - makepkg:
                - allow specifying a download filename (related to FS#11292)
                - fix download functions with weird URLs (FS#11076)
                - fix creation of source package with local files (FS#11149)
                - fix error when sourcing profile scripts (FS#11179)
                - perform case-insensitive checksum comparison (FS#11283)
              - documentation and help updates (including fix for FS#11203)
              - new Ukrainian translation
              - existing translation updates
3.2.0         - removed -A/--add option from pacman frontend
              - added --asexplicit option
              - new remove option --unneeded
              - add -Rss option to remove all dependencies
              - removed useless -e/--dependsonly option
              - config options are now case sensitive
              - added CleanMethod option for variety in cache cleaning
              - new Turkish translation, all others updated and revised
              - handle multiple groups in -Ss and -Qs operations
              - allow -q/--quiet option with -o/--own and -g/--groups options
              - removed hack for packages with unknown installed size
              - add SyncFirst option to pacman.conf
              - support installation of versioned deps : pacman -S "dep>=2.0"
              - add --enable-git-version configure flag to identify
                developmental build version
              - do not duplicate packages in required by list
              - pacman.static is no longer built
              - all error messages use pm_fprintf
              - disable geteuid in cygwin
              - use off_t type for large file support
              - add vercmp test script
              - moved gensync and updatesync to contrib/
              - rewrote pacsearch script in perl
              - paclist script to list installed packages from a repo
              - bacman script to make backup of package from filesystem
              - combined repo-add and repo-remove into one script
              - removed --force option from repo-add
              - add --quiet option to repo-add/repo-remove
              - update libtool version to 1.5.26
              - allow disabling of internal download with new configure
                flag --disable-internal-download
              - pactest can now check file permissions
              - add the possibility to mark the pactests known to fail,
                which allows more informative results of make check
              - libalpm-specific changes:
                - use dynamic string allocation in package structure
                - new functions for manipulating pmdepend_t objects
                - store replaces and force in local database
                - moved deptest functionality to backend
                - add alpm_checkdbconflicts function
                - fix PM_ERR_CONFLICTING_DEPS handling
                - cleanup of pmsyncpkg_t
                - add alpm_sync_newversion function
                - cleanup of alpm_list code
                - refactor of download code
                - download callback API changes
                - removed test_delta_md5sum and test_pkg_md5sum functions
                - add _alpm_archive_fgets function to read line-by-line from
                  an archive
                - read .PKGINFO directly from package file with no temp file
                - native support for both libdownload and libfetch
                - rework delta algorithm (we still need script updates)
                - swap parameters of alpm_pkg_find for consistency with
                  other find functions
                - swap parameters of PM_TRANS_CONV_INSTALL_IGNOREPKG to make
                  more sense
                - fix -Rs when removing multiple items in dependency chain
              - makepkg-specific changes:
                - support for resuming source downloads
                - added zipman option
                - removed -b/--builddeps
                - various portability fixes for BSD and Mac OS X
                - check for valid options in PKGBUILD
                - add --allsource option
                - remove deprecated --usesudo option
                - handle spaces in build directory
                - made keeping docs the default option
                - use pacman version dep resolving
                - fix regression in library stripping
                - make strip paths configurable
              - MANY other bug fixes and small improvements
3.1.4         - various small code cleanups and fixes
              - small documentation updates
              - improvements to PKGBUILD.vim
              - translation updates - ru, zh_CN
3.1.3         - major updates to i18n output in frontend (all UTF-8 characters
                should now work with varying byte and char widths)
              - new Simplified Chinese translation
              - updates to testpkg utility
              - updates to PKGBUILD.vim
              - internal updates for translations - use c-format on all
                strings, get rid of needless line numbers
3.1.2         - updates to proto.install, add ChangeLog.proto (FS#7231)
              - add 'force' option to packages, and have repo-add respect it
              - mark gensync and updatesync as deprecated
              - fix pacman -Qo behavior on symlinks (FS#9473)
              - fix segfault on a broken symlinks in backup code (FS#9235)
              - ensure filename is determined correctly for a pkg (FS#9547)
              - fix conflict progress bar with UTF-8 chars (FS#6437)
              - fix chk_fileconflicts brokenness, ensure it reads entire list
              - ensure -Sc operation locks DB, only checks DBs (FS#9609)
              - minor documentation and message updates
              - moved some translations to their more generic lang codes
              - allow scripts to be run without gettext installed
              - makepkg:
                - check to ensure we have non-URL sources (FS#9208)
                - ensure we strip binaries in /opt/ dirs (FS#9342)
                - check for VCS executable before using (FS#9230)
                - set sane umask before source extraction (FS#9242, FS#9362)
3.1.1         - fix versioned provisions handling- use '=' instead of ' ' which
                differs from original spec but better in long run (FS#9171)
              - rename query --orphans to --unrequired (FS#9144)
              - fix segfault when cachedir is unusable (FS#9186)
              - missing SYMEXPORT on libalpm functions (FS#9155)
              - notify of package replacements when using --noconfirm (FS#5179)
              - fix usage of PKGEXT by gensync/updatesync (FS#9190)
              - ensure correct dir permissions in database (FS#9176)
              - ensure /tmp is created with correct permissions (FS#9183)
              - disallow NULL section in parseconfig (reported on forums)
              - remove Arch-specific pacman.conf and mirrorlist from source
              - makepkg: --holdver option for devel PKGBUILDs (FS#9194)
              - documentation updates (FS# 9142, 9146, 9175, 9192, 9204)
              - many translation updates
3.1.0         - paths are now specified as absolute paths (or defaulting to
                under the specified root directory)
              - all paths can be specified in pacman.conf or on command line
              - updates to pacman clean operation- now cleans uninstalled
                packages and old sync DBs (FS#8061)
              - remove all hardcoded paths and allow them to be set at
                configure/build time
              - single mirrorfile- pacman substitutes the repository name in
                mirror file when $repo is found (FS#6389)
              - New config file options: ShowSize, TotalDownload, IgnoreGroup,
                UseDelta
              - all scripts have been gettext-ized and can be translated
              - added testdb utility to check pacman DBs for common problems
              - huge additions to pactest suite
              - remove -F/--freshen operation
              - add --ignoregroup option (FS#1592)
              - --ignore and --ignoregroup accept comma separated lists
              - add --needed option for --sync
              - massive optimization and speedup for --owns
              - add -q/--quiet option for -Ss/-Sl and -Q? output (FS#8470)
              - add --asdeps option (install reason: dependency) (FS#7193)
              - replace "Total Package Size" with "Total Download Size"
                (FS#4182)
              - fix -Q options to work on installed packages AND package files
              - change -Q/--query options to act as filters and increase their
                flexibility
              - -U/-A <url> now downloads to cachedir (FS#6404)
              - install and build dates are localized
              - optdepends support
              - delta support
              - versioned provisions support
              - versioned conflicts support
              - add < and > operators for versioned dependencies and conflicts
              - bash completion updates
              - mirrorlist updates
              - removed ABS script from codebase (now a separate project)
              - allow multiple pacman cache directories
              - all manpages are now generated using Asciidoc (FS#7312)
              - moved parseconfig from backend library to frontend
              - clean up and refactoring of the ENTIRE codebase
                - remove many useless #ifdefs
                - split many too-long functions
                - portability updates: compiles and passes tests on BSD and
                  Darwin (switching libdownload->libfetch)
                - clean up build process
                - use of static code analysis
                - memory leak fixes all over the place
                - fix overzealous use of macros
                - entire codebase builds with -pedantic GCC option
              - libalpm-specific changes:
                - moved location of sync DBs into their own folder to thwart
                  deletion and remove naming limitations
                - REQUIREDBY entries are no longer used in local DB but are
                  computed on the fly when needed, which should resolve
                  phantom dependency issues (FS#7639)
                - ensure we export everything that should be public
                - fix some const correctness issues
                - add list tail ptr shortcut to make last element lookups O(1)
                - database dates are stored as seconds from epoch
                - removed SHA1 support
                - drop in new MD5 library
                - implement topological sorting for dependencies
                - do case sensitive compare in parse_descfile (FS#8081)
                - remove hardcoded architectures
                - conflicts checking speedups and fixes
                - move lockfile location to inside the DB
                - remove gettext calls from DEBUG messages
                - remove faulty diskspace checking
                - move functions out of alpm.c to where they belong
                - rewrite of file extraction code (FS#7484)
              - makepkg-specific changes:
                - entire script has been functionalized
                - only runs in fakeroot when necessary
                - hard linked manpages are now compressed (FS#5392)
                - built-in versionpkg support
                - arch=('any') support (FS#8153)
                - clean up and prettify the output
                - replace tar/cpio/unzip with bsdtar (FS#7485)
                - add --ignorearch option (FS#7355)
                - improved error handling
                - downloads straight to $SRCDEST to avoid copies (FS#7271)
                - support for multiple download protocols (FS#4404)
                - remove --usesudo option, use it by default
                - add --asroot option to discourage building as root
                - add $srcdir and $pkgdir variables (FS#7278)
                - add source package creation option
              - rankmirrors- allow reading from stdin (FS#8043)
              - and many other updates: 198 bugs/FRs closed since 3.0.0 release
              - switch to GIT for source code management
3.0.6         - config files updated to reflect current -> core change
              - fix symlink overwriting issue (FS#7484)
              - fix config parsing with tr_TR locale (FS#7235)
              - use AC_SYS_LARGEFILE if available (FS#7578)
3.0.5         - add -mtune=generic to default CFLAGS in makepkg.conf
              - small updates to translations
              - repo-add: fix conflicts issue for real this time
              - fix issue with libarchive incorrectly setting permissions
3.0.4         - updated translations
              - repo-add: fix issue where conflicts were not put in database
3.0.3         - updated translations
              - repo-add: fixed a desc file clobbering issue
3.0.2         - fix a bug where pre/post_remove scriptlets were not ran
              - ensure ldconfig is ran in all operations
              - added a few new translations, updated existing ones
              - updated mirror lists
              - makepkg: ensure CFLAGS are exported to build function
3.0.1         - fix a locale issue with tr_TR upper/lower-case conversion
              - allow removal when listing the same package multiple times
              - fix a repo-add bug that left a .PKGINFO file in the current
                directory
              - proper error messages when we cannot read mtab for freespace
3.0.0         - first release based on libalpm backend
              - added internationalization (gettext) support:
                - de, fr, hu, it, pt_BR, en_GB, ru_RU translations
              - switch to usage of libdownload and libarchive
              - improved proxy support using libdownload
              - documentation - man pages updated, new conf manpages added
              - repository mirror list updates
              - added support for package changelogs
              - logging of all install scriptlet messages to pacman.log
              - orphans search (-Qe) now shows true orphans
              - new -Qu option - show all packages that can be upgraded
              - new -Se option - install only dependencies
              - dependency sorting on install and removal
              - check for free space before installing packages
              - prompt to delete corrupted packages
              - improved backup handling - backup array proactive on upgrade
              - removed NoUpgrade lines from default pacman.conf
              - new uncompressed size field, shown on sync upgrade
              - improved progress and progressbar output
              - reduced unnecessary calling of ldconfig
              - selective loading of database to speed up certain operations
              - debugging output improved with --debug flag
              - pacman-optimize - now supports DBs on separate filesystem
              - makepkg and abs now support conf files in home directory
              - makepkg changes:
                - arch field is required
                - added -arch suffix to generated package filenames
                - new configuration file options format
                - changed default configuration
                - support alternate integrity checks
                - extract files using filetype, not extension
                - added noextract array
                - new options array format
                - new option to log build process
                - new --repackage option - repackage pkg/ without building
                - user-selectable paths for doc stripping
                - configurable source cache location
                - dependencies now removed on a build success or failure
              - abs changes:
                - supports both cvsup and csup
                - expanded configuration
                - added support for testing repository
              - new helper scripts:
                - rankmirrors - shows best available mirrors
                - repo-add - adds a package to a repo database file
                - repo-remove - removes a package from a repo database file
              - added pactest testing suite
              - MANY fixes and small improvements everywhere
2.9.8         - Changed behaviour with original=X,current=Y,new=Z scenario
                - keep old in place, install new as .pacnew
              - Search package provides when finding matching targets with -S
              - Frugalware: added -Qm option to find foreign packages
              - Frugalware: added DistCC support to makepkg
              - bugfix: before searching databases for a dependency, make sure
                one of the packages in the final list doesn't already provide
                that dependency
              - fix for segfaults that occurred when propagating requiredby
                fields to replaced packages where one package depended on
                another replaced package
              - a better fix for pacman-optimize integrity checks
              - fix for regex searches with -Ss (Miklos Vajna)
              - added a --noprogressbar for scripts to use
2.9.7         - fixed the dupe listings of packages when dealing w/ groups
              - patches from Miklos Vajna:
                - add regexp search support for -Qs and -Ss
                - fixed md5sums on x86_64
                - add --sudosync to makepkg
                - show syntax help if an invalid option is used
                - added makepkg option to disable ccache support
              - changed license field to operate as an array, not a string
              - added more logic for file conflict checks - if one target
                is a file and the other is a directory, then it's a conflict
              - fixed the integrity check in pacman-optimize
              - reverted NoUpgrade to old behaviour and instead, added the
                NoExtract directive to pacman.conf, which prevents a file
                from ever being extracted on to the system
                 eg, NoExtract = home/httpd/html/index.html
2.9.6         - added a pacman-optimize script to try and defragment the DB
              - modified NoUpgrade behaviour to avoid extracting files
                that are missing from the filesystem -- this helps in
                situations where the admin does not want the file there, eg,
                remove index.html so index.php takes precedence
              - fixed a bug where files would sometimes go missing if they
                moved from one package to another
              - add db_remove() which is responsible for clearing out stale
                hash table entries when packages are removed
              - added ccache support to makepkg
              - patch from Aurelien Foret fixes a few memory leaks
2.9.5         - bugfix: missing files after re-ordering packages wrt
                deps with --upgrade
              - added "Repository" line to -Si output
              - patch from Tommi Rantala to fix trim() behaviour with
                empty or whitespace-only strings
              - fixed removal order when using -Rc or -Rs
2.9.4         - fixed a bug that was introduced from another bugfix :-/
2.9.3         - fixed a couple manpage typos
              - added --ignore to -S operations, works just like IgnorePkg
              - respect IgnorePkg list when pulling in dependencies
              - numerous memleak fixes
              - some code changes to improve customizability/branding
              - Makefile fix for nonstandard lib search paths (Kevin Piche)
              - fixed the leftover directories in /tmp
              - speed improvement patches from Tommi Rantala
2.9.2         - bugfix for 2.9.1 
2.9.1         - --refresh now only downloads fresh packages lists if they've
                been updated (currently only works with FTP)
2.9           - Improved -Rs functionality -- pacman now tracks why a package
                is installed: explicitly, or as a dependency for another
                package.  -Rs will only remove dependencies that were not
                explicitly installed.
              - Added compressed package size to sync DBs -- shows the total
                size of packages before downloading
              - Patch from Tommi Rantala:
                - Allow --info and --list together in queries
              - Patch from Kevin Piche:
                - Use list_add_sorted() with -Sg
              - Patch from Hegedus Marton Csaba:
                - Better manpage compression
              - Added checks for additional hyphens in package versions
              - mktemp was failing if %pmo_root%/tmp was missing -- fixed
2.8.4         - Added updatesync script from Jason Chu
              - Changed the pacman binary to be dynamically linked
                - Included a pacman.static binary as well
                - Added fakeroot checks when seeing if we're root
              - Fixed makepkg to use 'tail -n 1' instead of 'tail -1'
              - Added patch from Kevin Piche:
                - Cleanup db_loadpkgs(), add list_add_sorted()
              - Fixed a memory leak in db_find_conflicts()
2.8.3         - Fixed a little makepkg bug with bash 3.0
              - Fixed resolvedeps to always prefer literals over provisios
              - Added --config option to specify an alternate config file
              - Added "Include" directive to include repositories from
                config files (inspired by Michael Baehr's patch)
              - Added patch from Jason Chu:
                - Even smarter file-conflict checking
2.8.2         - Fixed a segfault bug in file-conflict checks
              - Made --noconfirm actually work.  Go me.
2.8.1         - Added a HoldPkg option in pacman.conf, for the more
                exploratory users who run things like "pacman -R pacman".  It
                will ask for confirmation before removing any packages listed
                in the HoldPkg list
              - Added a --noconfirm switch for use with script automation
              - Modified dependency resolution to prefer packages explicitly
                requested on the cmdline instead of those pulled in by
                resolvedeps().  Example, if neither "xorg" nor "xfree86" is
                installed and "blackbox xfree86" is requested, "xfree86" will
                be used instead of "xorg"
              - Added patch from Jason Chu:
                - Smarter file-conflict checking with symlinked paths and
                  with files that move from one package to another
2.8           - Bugfixes:
                - FS#861:  file:/// urls not handled properly with XferCommand
                - FS#1003: set umask before scriptlet calls
                - FS#1027: download problems with http urls using -U/-A
                - FS#1044: segfaults when using -Rs
                - FS#863:  "missing post_remove" errors with some packages
                - FS#875:  detect low disk space properly
                - FS#986:  makepkg -e doesn't validate files
                - FS#1010: add -j option to makepkg
                - FS#1028: make pacman -Sp runnable as non-root
              - added pre_install and pre_upgrade scriptlet support
              - added an "Architecture" field in the package meta-data
              - added patch from Aurelien Foret which improves performance
                adding or removing packages
              - added implementation of GNU's strverscmp function for better
                portability
              - added explicit unlink() calls when --force is used, which
                prevents those nasty "Text file busy" errors when you
                force-upgrade something like pacman or glibc.
2.7.9         - added the "force" option to packages, so --sysupgrade can
                downgrade packages when it needs to
2.7.8         - added post_remove scriptlet support
              - added -Qs option (FS#854)
              - a provisio does not imply conflict, to make a provisio target
                conflict with anything else that provides the same thing, you
                can now do this by specifying the provisio target as both a
                provides and a conflict, eg:
                   conflicts=('x-server')
                   provides=('x-server')
              - cleaned up the download progress bar a bit
              - added %o parameter to XferCommand so wget can resume properly
              - fixed a segfault in downloadfiles() (FS#787)
              - patches from Oliver Burnett-Hall
                - gensync uses a better temp dir (FS#774)
                - PKGDEST can be set in makepkg.conf (FS#783)
              - patches from Aurelien Foret
                - segfault fix, couple memory leaks
                - more sanity checks in "provides" searches
                - fixed a little display bug in the progress bar
                - made -Qip look like -Qi
                - -Sc now removes OLD packages from cache, use -Scc for all
2.7.7         - added an XferCommand directive that will make pacman use an
                external download utility like wget
              - added a license field to package meta-data
              - add url support to -A and -U operations (download packages)
              - -Ss now searches thru provides fields
              - added --dbonly option to -R
2.7.6         - added --print-uris option
              - fixed an http download bug (FS#667)
              - fixed a segfault related to replaces/conflicts handling
2.7.5         - "replaces" packages were ignoring IgnorePkg in pacman.conf
              - fixed another bug in conflict handling
              - found an out-dated reference to /usr/abs, fixed
              - added a --recursive option for package removal, which removes
                all deps of a target that aren't required by other packages
2.7.4         - fixed a bug in conflict handling, where installing a
                conflicting package would fail even if the new package
                "provided" it
              - if pacman sees a newer version of itself during an upgrade,
                it will ask to install itself first, then be re-run to upgrade
                the other packages.
              - You can now use the --info option with --sync to display an
                uninstalled package's dependency info.
              - Added a sane umask before db writes
              - buffer overflow fix (FS#442)
2.7.3         - makepkg not longer strips files with .exe or .dll extensions
              - Added Aurelien's patch:
                - proxy support (no authentication yet)
                - HTTP/1.1 support
                - an improved progress bar with transfer rates and ETA
              - cleaned up warning output a bit
2.7.2         - Supressed "No such file" messages during stripping
              - Removed extra newlines in /var/log/pacman.log
              - Added a --noextract option to makepkg to skip source extraction
2.7.1         - Fixed a couple obscure segfaults
              - LogFiles were logging incorrect dates - fixed
              - Cleaned up md5sum output in makepkg -g
              - Added (optional) colorized output messages to makepkg
              - Renamed the "stable" repo to "release" in pacman.conf
              - Renamed the "unofficial" repo to "extra" in pacman.conf
2.7           - Added build-time dependencies to makepkg (Jason Chu)
              - Added md5sum integrity checking to packages in --sync
                mode (Aurelien Foret)
              - Memory leak fixes (Aurelien Foret)
              - Added CARCH variable to makepkg.conf for use in PKGBUILDs
              - Added LogFile option for direct-to-file logging
              - Added -Qii handling to show modified config files
              - Allow --sync targets to specify an explicit repository to
                sync from (eg, pacman -S current/patch)
2.6.4         - Altered pacman_upgrade() to allow a package to replace itself
2.6.3         - A couple memory fixes in the new replaces code
2.6.2         - Fixed a memory cleanup bug
              - Aurelien's patch:
                - FS#159 implemented (for -S and -R)
                - fixed a bug with pacman -Sg (pacman was browsing only one
                  db to get groups)
                - fixed a bug with list_merge()
                - fixed some MLK (in dumppkg() and with "-Qi --orphans")
                - now "pacman -Sg" only displays groups (without content)
                  whereas "pacman -Sg target1 target2" displays groups
                  target1 and target2 with content
2.6.1         - Added http download support (Aurelien Foret)
              - Improved makepkg's --builddeps behaviour when called via
                makeworld
              - makepkg's md5 validation now occurs before source extraction
              - makepkg delays fakeroot entry until after option parsing
              - Fixed an argument-passing bug in fakeroot
              - Modified pacman's behaviour wrt provides -- it now allows
                multiple packages to be installed, even if they provide the
                same thing (they were treated as conflicts before)
2.6           - Added group handling, so one can run 'pacman -S kde' and