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2009-11-19Bump the version number to 0.6.1.1.Daniel Burrows1-1/+1
2009-11-18Update version number to 0.6.1.Daniel Burrows1-1/+1
2009-11-12Document the new screenshot-related configuration options.Daniel Burrows1-0/+24
2009-11-01Merge with changes from laptop.Daniel Burrows1-13/+0
2009-10-26Get rid of get_solution_background_blocking.Daniel Burrows1-13/+0
Now that the resolver continuations run in the foreground thread, this was causing irreconcilable deadlocks (since the foreground thread would be waiting for someone to post the return result, which could only happen when the foreground thread finished running the continuation and polled for new posted thunks).
2009-10-25Bump the version number to 0.6.0.1.Daniel Burrows1-1/+1
2009-10-25Bump the version number to 0.6.0.Daniel Burrows1-1/+1
2009-10-12Bump the version number to 0.5.9rc4.Daniel Burrows1-1/+1
2009-10-09Bump the version number to 0.5.9rc3.Daniel Burrows1-1/+1
2009-10-07Fix the default value of Get-Root-Command. (Closes: #550057)Daniel Burrows1-1/+1
2009-10-05Improve the formatting of the Get-Root-Command documentation (put quotes ↵Daniel Burrows1-4/+4
around the command that's run).
2009-10-05Document Get-Root-Command from the section on "becoming root" (Closes: #548657).Daniel Burrows1-0/+9
Thanks to Matt Kraai for the initial version of the text.
2009-09-24Document that release names are now accepted in various places alongside ↵Daniel Burrows1-11/+22
archive names.
2009-09-09Bump the version number to 0.5.9rc2.Daniel Burrows1-1/+1
2009-09-08Bump the version number to 0.5.9rc1.Daniel Burrows1-1/+1
Better to get this out sooner than later.
2009-09-08Document the new configuration options that control list cleanup after "update".Daniel Burrows1-0/+28
2009-09-06Fix dangling links in the documentation.Daniel Burrows2-2/+2
2009-09-06Deprecate Keep-Suggests and Keep-Recommends in favor of the "standard" apt ↵Daniel Burrows2-15/+45
equivalents. (Closes: #540230) apt's version of MarkFollowsRecommends() reads the two options Apt::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant and ...::SuggestsImportant, where aptitude historically used Aptitude::Keep-Recommends and Aptitude::Keep-Suggests. This means that there were two sets of options controlling aptitude's behavior, one of them undocumented. This change mostly just alters the documentation to make the apt versions the "official" place to set the behavior -- and also to document their existence. One thing to note is that Apt::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant defaults to "true", whereas Aptitude::Keep-Recommends defaulted to "false". This is not, however, a change in behavior; instead, it just brings the documentation in line with how the program already behaves.
2009-09-05Make autoclean support automatic su-to-root as well.Daniel Burrows1-10/+34
2009-09-05Add support for auto-su-to-root to the "clean package cache" command. ↵Daniel Burrows1-4/+26
(Closes: #492832)
2009-09-05Make bare strings match based on name again. (Closes: #527540, #538198, #514625)Daniel Burrows1-11/+4
This was the #1 complaint from users regarding the 0.6 code. Xapian support is still there (via the ?term matcher), but it's not the default. We might want to make this an option again in the future; I'm not sure.
2009-09-05Don't let the apt greedy resolver remove packages; ask the user to handle ↵Daniel Burrows1-4/+16
conflicts instead. Triggered by the observation that aptitude was removing grub without any user interaction, which I believe is caused by the greedy resolver.
2009-09-03Merge safe-upgrade into the main "package action" codepath.Daniel Burrows1-2/+51
The differences between the two codepaths have been steadily decreasing; I wanted to add support for "aptitude safe-upgrade foo" as "upgrade only foo", and this was the easiest way of doing so. It also means that safe-upgrade supports all the postfix commands that the other package actions do. There is an asymmetry between safe- and full-upgrade, in that safe-upgrade, if given parameters, will ignore all packages except the ones listed, whereas full-upgrade will always upgrade everything in addition to performing the listed actions. If I could go back in time both would behave the way safe-upgrade does now; I think its behavior is more useful, and unless there's a huge amount of confusion caused by this discrepancy, I plan to leave things the way they are.
2009-07-21Update the version number to 0.5.3.1.Daniel Burrows1-1/+1
2009-07-20Bump the version number to 0.5.3.Daniel Burrows1-1/+1
2009-06-24Log a more reasonable amount of stuff relating to the promotion set at INFO, ↵Daniel Burrows1-1/+1
and enable the new logging by default with --log-resolver. Currently, the only INFO level message is the existing promotion that a new promotion was redundant with.
2009-04-26Update the version number to 0.5.2.1.Daniel Burrows1-1/+1
2009-04-26Replace inkscape with rsvg in makefile (correctly).Obey Arthur Liu1-1/+1
2009-04-26Backed out changeset b2b4feb9c616Obey Arthur Liu1-1/+1
Wooooops.
2009-04-26Replace inkscape with rsvg in makefile.Obey Arthur Liu1-1/+1
2009-04-26Resize working area to image size.Obey Arthur Liu1-3/+4
inkscape > file > document properties > crop page to selection
2009-04-26Add forgotten search-tier-diagram.svg to EXTRA_DIST files.Obey Arthur Liu1-2/+2
2009-04-25Document --show-why and Aptitude::CmdLine::Show-Why.Daniel Burrows2-0/+155
2009-04-22Write a changelog entry for 0.5.2 and update the version number.Daniel Burrows1-1/+1
2009-04-22Tweak how tiering is documented to be a bit less opaque, describe less ↵Daniel Burrows1-51/+47
irrelevant technical details, etc. I hope it's better now, anyway.
2009-04-22Write up some basic user documentation on tiering.Daniel Burrows3-1/+647
We could stand to have a little more documentation here, maybe with some examples?
2009-04-22Another generated -> generate typo fix.Daniel Burrows1-1/+1
2009-04-22Typo fix: generated -> generate.Daniel Burrows1-1/+1
2009-04-22Make sure to explicitly state that "a" also un-approves actions.Daniel Burrows1-5/+6
2009-04-22Clarify that the resolver picks *one* approved alternative, not "all" of them.Daniel Burrows1-1/+1
2009-04-12Add a command-line option to easily enable logging options that produce good ↵Daniel Burrows1-0/+17
parsable resolver logs suitable for use with, e.g., the resolver-visualize tool.
2009-02-09Add support to the problem resolver for searching past the first solution. ↵Daniel Burrows1-0/+16
(Closes: #482825) Hopefully this won't be too bad for performance, because it only searches 50 nodes past the first one. The one thing that worries me is that it does this search *every time* that the resolver runs, even if it's just going to return an enqueued solution from the last run ... but still, it should be fine unless you're generating hundreds of solutions (in which case we have an EPIC RESOLVER FAIL). I think this breaks rejects/accepts. More work needed there.
2009-01-31When setting up the resolver, add scores that bias it towards installing ↵Daniel Burrows1-0/+17
dependency resolutions that apt would have. This needs some testing, as soon as I can figure out a good test case. The basic mechanism is to use the joint scores that have been in there for a while: if a dependency's targets aren't currently installed, we either apply a joint score to installing the depending package and the first dependency (the one apt would pick), OR (if the depending package is installed) we apply a score to the first dependency only. Note that this happens even for non-OR, non-virtual dependencies. Not sure if this is a good idea, or how to easily prevent it.
2009-01-31Implement basic configuration of loggers, and document it.Daniel Burrows2-0/+234
The documentation needs work, especially the config file reference entries -- really, logging should be its own section (maybe an appendix?) with a list of all the logging categories.
2009-01-28Fix / add links to the configuration file items related to purge-unused.Daniel Burrows1-2/+8
2009-01-28Improve the documentation of --purge-unused, since apparently people don't ↵Daniel Burrows1-4/+13
understand what it does.
2009-01-18Bump the version number to 0.5.1.Daniel Burrows1-1/+1
2009-01-18Document the ?term and ?term-prefix search terms, as well as the fact that ↵Daniel Burrows1-18/+90
unadorned strings are now ?term, not ?name.
2009-01-18Implement the ?exact-name() term, a search term that matches package names ↵Daniel Burrows1-0/+34
exactly. Among other things, this will allow a non-hacky and reasonably efficient fix for how packages are matched by resolver hints.
2009-01-17Make the capitalization of section headings in the user's manual uniform.Daniel Burrows2-31/+31
Previously we sometimes Capitalized All Words and sometimes only Capitalized the first word. Now we always capitalize just the first word. This commit also expands UI to "user interface" in one section title.