NEWS.md

In bspm: Bridge to System Package Manager

bspm 0.5.7

• Restrict D-Bus service configuration to installations in Linux machines with admininistrative privileges.

bspm 0.5.6

• Move to cran4linux org on GitHub, update URLs.
• Try binary installation of build-only dependencies for source packages (#82 addressing #81).

bspm 0.5.5

• Fix test to feed character input to numeric_version.

bspm 0.5.4

• Fix DNF backend to ensure that the system configuration is used (228407a).
• Minor documentation improvements.

bspm 0.5.3

• Add workaround for underscores in Arch package versions (#71).
• Fix BioArchLinux instructions in README.
• Fix discovery of installed system packages in Arch (#73).

bspm 0.5.2

• Fix package deduplication in dependency getter (#68 addressing #67).
• Rename scripts manual page to bspm-scripts.

bspm 0.5.1

• Add support for littler in scripts (@eddelbuettel in #64).
• Refactor + fixes + improve testing (#66 addressing #63).

bspm 0.5.0

• New function moveto_sys() moves existing user packages to the system library to avoid package shadowing; the associated script mass_move enables mass-calling this function for several users and/or libraries to facilitate bspm deployment in multitenant servers (#60 addressing #59).
• New function shadowed_packages() analyzes the library tree and reports which packages, one per row, are shadowed by others (#62 addressing #58).
• Add new options(bspm.version.check=FALSE) (true by default) to globally enable binary-source installation type (#61).
• Add a specific manual page bspm-options documenting all supported options.
• Add support for the installation of binary Suggests and Enhances if they are supplied to the dependencies argument of install.packages. LinkingTo now is omitted for binary packages as documented (#32).

bspm 0.4.2

• Fix error forwarding in root mode (#54).
• Fix installation error when type="binary-source" is set and a package without binary version available is requested (#56).
• Fix installation error in options(pkgType="both") mode (default) when an available binary is not available as source (#57).

bspm 0.4.1

• New type="binary-source" option (or fast mode) tries to install as many binaries as possible (requested packages and dependencies), and then falls back to source installation (per @eddelbuettel's wish).
• Fix the call to available.packages() when the repos argument is specified (#52 addressing #51).

bspm 0.4.0

• New function available_sys() returns a matrix of available packages with "Package", "Version", and "Repository" (#47 addressing #41).
• Honor type option, set by default to "both", which means 'use binary if available and current, otherwise try source' (#48 addressing #46). As a consequence, the option bspm.always.install.deps has been removed.

bspm 0.3.10

• Check backend availability on enable(), and trigger a warning if the service is required but not found. This check can be disabled by setting options(bspm.backend.check=FALSE) (#40).

bspm 0.3.9

• Force sudo unconditionally also with autodetection (#27, #28).
• Call update_cache in DNF install transactions (#29).
• Add ALPM backend (#35 addressing #34).
• Fix repeated installation issue in APT backend (#36).

bspm 0.3.8

• Fix spurious error with options(bspm.always.install.deps=TRUE) (#25).
• Ensure that options(bspm.sudo=TRUE) forces sudo unconditionally (#28).
• Add new options(bspm.sudo.autodetect=TRUE) (not set by default) to enable passwordless sudo autodetection on every call (#27).

bspm 0.3.7

• Fix spurious error with options(bspm.always.install.deps=TRUE) (#24).

bspm 0.3.6

• Make APT call fail if there are unmet dependencies (#20).
• Add new options(bspm.always.install.deps=TRUE) (not set by default) to always try to install recursive hard dependencies of packages from system repositories even if the requested package is not available (#14, #23).
• Add a note about SELinux (#19).

bspm 0.3.5

• Fix noise when busctl is installed but there's no system bus (docker) (#12).
• Workaround issue with file permissions under /tmp (#13).
• Fix compatibility with Python 3.6 (#16 addressing #15).
• Workaround PATH for old versions of APT/dpkg (#17 addressing #15).
• Prioritize options(bspm.sudo=TRUE) over DBus calls (as part of #16), so that any DBus error or incompatibility can be at least bypassed with sudo.

bspm 0.3.4

• Fix installation issue reported by CRAN on Solaris.

bspm 0.3.3

• Cosmetic changes suggested by CRAN.
• Small configure fix.

bspm 0.3.2

• Implement functions to discover new prefixes dynamically (#3).
• Fall back to sudo if no root permissions nor D-Bus service are available.
• More documentation, some examples, and testing.

bspm 0.3.1

• Simplified installation, because D-Bus files are always in the same place.
• Support for multiple prefixes and exclusions (#1).
• Improve APT cache management (#4).
• Fix newlines in APT output (#5).
• Load D-Bus variables locally instead of in the global environment (#6).

bspm 0.3.0

• New package name, as suggested by @eddelbuettel; improved title & description.
• Allow root user to talk directly to the system package manager, without D-Bus.

PackageManager 0.2.1

• Add APT backend.

PackageManager 0.2.0

• Initial fork from cran2copr project, reworked to make it extensible.
• Currently, only DNF backend supported.

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