github vinifmor/bauh 0.9.0

latest releases: 0.9.18, 0.9.17, 0.9.16...
4 years ago

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)

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