vinifmor/bauh 0.9.0

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Detailed publication at https://forum.manjaro.org/t/bauh-formerly-known-as-fpakman-a-gui-for-flatpak-and-snap-management/96180/167

Features

• Backup

  • Timeshift integration ( if available on the system ): it can generate snapshots before installing, uninstalling, upgrading...
  • you can enable / disable this feature via the settings file or UI.

• UI

  • new initialization dialog showing tasks that need to be done before use
  • new custom actions button ( displays specific action available for each packaging provider )

• Arch

  • supporting packages from configured repositories ( search, install, upgrade and info. History and downgrade are not supported yet )
  • custom actions ( available through the new custom actions button )
    • synchronize packages database: synchronizes the databases against the configured mirrors
    • refresh mirrors: allows the user to define multiple mirrors locations and sort by the fastest
    • quick system upgrade: it executes a default pacman upgrade ( pacman -Syyu --noconfirm )
    • clean cache: it cleans the pacman cache diretory ( default: /var/cache/pacman/pkg )
  • mirrors refreshing on startup ( disabled by default. Can be enabled on settings -> refresh_mirrors_startup )
  • new settings to enable / disable AUR and repository packages management: aur and repositories
  • uninstall: allowing to remove all transitive dependencies
  • able to handle the installation of dependencies with multiple providers
  • multi-threaded downloads ( using aria2c ) are not supported yet for repository packages

• AppImage

  • Custom actions
    • Install AppImage file: allows to install a external AppImage file
    • Upgrade file: allows to upgrade a manually installed AppImage file

• Web

  • Custom actions
    • Clean installation environment custom action: removes all the installation environment folders ( it does not remove installed apps )

• CLI mode:

  • a beginning for the command line mode (bauh-cli). Only list updates command is available for now ( bauh-cli updates ) #54

• Core

  • allowing to trim the disk after all upgrades are applied ( disabled by default. It can be enabled on settings, Make sure your SSD supports TRIM before enabling this option. )
  • new warning dialog informing when there is a new bauh update / release available

Improvements

• Core

  • root password is asked only once ( can be disabled through the new settings property store_root_password )
  • upgrade logs are now generated at /tmp/bauh/logs/upgrade
  • new upgrade model: now all packages selected to upgrade are handled at once by the underlying gem

• Arch

  • dependency checking algorithm
    • faster for scenarios involving several packages ( taking =~ 95% less time )
    • faster for AUR installations ( taking an average of 23% less time )
  • the AUR compilation optimizations now include setting the device processors to performance mode
  • if the pacman database is locked, a dialog is displayed requesting if the database should be unlocked to proceed with the ongoing action
  • displaying missing repository dependencies sizes
  • dialog design when the package cannot be uninstalled due to required packages
  • removing old cached versions from the disk cache when uninstalling a package ( can be disabled on settings -> clean_cached )
  • database synchronization on startup ( enabled by default. Can be disabled on settings -> sync_databases_startup )
  • single pacman call to install repository dependencies
  • improved conflict checking algorithm
  • overall speed improvements
  • code refactoring

• UI

  • the name filter now delays 2 seconds before being applied
  • upgrades: upgrade order and required dialogs were merged in a single summary dialog
  • displaying the upgrade size ( Flatpak, AppImage and Arch )
  • time to determine the selected packages to upgrade takes less time
  • table update performance
  • tray
    • treated as an application apart and not sharing the memory with the management panel ( first step to reduce its memory usage )
    • sorting types on update notification

Fixes

• table not displaying all updates when the "updates filter" is clicked several times
• installation logs written to the wrong temp directory
• crashes when Python is not able to retrieve the default locale #84
• Arch / AUR:
  • sorting algorithm was providing wrong results for some cases
  • not caching data about packages with no desktop entry files
  • error output when it was not able to optimize the makepkg.conf #84
  • error when building AUR packages with .tar.zst extensions

Settings

• Default
  • pre_dependency_checking dropped ( now is always enabled )
  • sort_packages dropped ( now the gems decide if it makes sense to sort the packages )
  • disk_cache dropped ( now is always enabled )
• Arch / AUR:
  • transitive_checking dropped ( now is always enabled )
  • simple_checking dropped ( now is always disabled )

Params / Environment Variables

• param --show-panel dropped
• env vars BAUH_TRAY and BAUH_LOGS dropped ( the equivalent parameters remain )
• new parameter --settings: opens only the settings panel
• now to open the tray use only the parameter --tray instead of --tray=1
• now to activate the logs use only the parameter --logs instead of --logs=1
• adding mutual exclusion to some parameters (--settings, --tray, --reset)

i18n contributions

• Russian (ru): mountain-biker85