1. Introduction
Kpackage is a GUI interface to the RPM package manager
and the Debian package manager, it is similar in some ways to GLINT. Kpackage
is part of the K Desktop Environment and, as a result, it is designed to
integrate with the KDE file manager.
1.1 New
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Kpackage-1.1
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Requires QT 1.4
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Use QTreeView, much faster, allows columns,
shows version info
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Add multiple selection mode for installing and uninstalling
mulitiple packages at the same time
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Speed up list inserting significantly by not doing
"insort"
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Speed up exiting by not deleting objects
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Menu items for expanding and collapsing package
tree
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Menu item for clearing selections
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Remove quit from tool bar
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Fix for rpmlib 2.5, use supplied rpmlib.h
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Fix specifying a file in panel for reading directories
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Fix clearing directory cache with directories changed
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Fix comparing packge versions
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Kpackage-1.0
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Handle uninstalled packages as well as installed
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Cache non-local uninstalled package directories
in .kpackage
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Cache packages in .kpackage directory under their
names
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Options dialog for package directory caching
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Options dialog for package caching
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Options dialog for display of packages
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Make options dialog tabbed
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Put dragable separator in main window
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Sort package properties list
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Add Russian translation
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Fix Terminate string in KpMsg
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Fix error message for package file no found
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Fix kfm file fetching when file not found
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Fix open of local file with file select dialog
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Fix package properties display when scroll bar disappears
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Fix non-file URLs from file open dialog
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Fix zlib linking problem (maybe)
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kpackage-0.9.02
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Add French translation
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Fix segfault with Options...
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Fix "Check Dependencies" with RPM Uninstall
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Change icons on tree display
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kpackage-0.9.01
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Add Spanish translation
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Fix compiling without RPM
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kpackage-0.9
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Add searching for package that includes a
file (dialog with DND)
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Use kfile file selector
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Only create file list when accessed
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Don't reload package tree after add or delete
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Add toolbar (prevent toolbar envy)
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Add options menu (option for turning off file verification)
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Update automake,autoconf,make stuff
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Fix some fd and memory leaks
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Fix mini-icon
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Save more state on exit
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Fix color of description panel
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Add more internationalisation
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Put more stuff through translation
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Kpackage 0.8
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Display RPM dependency problem in GUI
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Display partially installed Debian packages
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Update icons
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Don't rebuild package tree if not needed
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Fix other RPM file descriptor leakage
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Try to put tmp files into home directory (/tmp has
security problems)
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Add internationalisation
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Portuguese: Pedro Morais <pmmm@camoes.rnl.ist.utl.pt>
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Slovakian: Juraj Bednar <bednar@isternet.sk>
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Allow for dropping multiple files
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Add folder pixmap for groups of packages
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Fix searching not to loose package sizes
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Change docs to KDE look
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kpackage-0.7
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Restructure internals to implement Debian and RPM
handling as subclasses and allow for adding other types
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Compile without RPM support if the correct libraries
aren't available
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Add find function for searching for installed packages
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Use ktreeview widget
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Change RPM errors from STDERR to error popups
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Different color tree icons for deb and RPM
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Fix to work with newer kprocess
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Fix fd leak
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Fix some memory leaks
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kpackage-0.6.2
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Fix installing .DEB packages with large number of
files
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Make handling of libraries more intelligent
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kpackage-0.6
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Fix up pixmaps, add file verify for Debian
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add recently opened file menu
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selecting file in file list opens it
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speed up long file list
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fix handling non-file URLs
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Fix crash when no Debian installed
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Recognise old Debian format
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kpackage-0.5
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Add handling DEB packages
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Fix problem with loosing text lines in description
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Update for session handling
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Use kfm for network io
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Add open menu item
Toivo Pedaste
toivo@ucs.uwa.edu.au