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initialized. In libalpm these are called handles. Here they are simply
objects. You will have to change every class method (ALPM->foo) to use
an ALPM object method instead ($alpm->foo). Luckily I decided to use
class methods years ago so this will be less painful.

*** ALPM errors are stored inside handles.

This makes things more difficult for me. Given an ALPM::DB object, if you
call a method on that object and the method fails, I cannot croak an error
message internally because the ALPM handle is not available.

** ALPM::Group is no longer a class.

Packages groups are now simply lists of packages. When you lookup one
specific group then a list is returned. When querying every single
group (i.e. with ALPM::DB's groups method) a list of name/value pairs
is returned to store it into a hash.

* Release 2.01

** Fix tests to work with custom PKGEXT                              :BUGFIX:

   Tests were failing to work when using a different PKGEXT.

** load_pkgfile error changes to croak instead of die                :BUGFIX:

   A minor problem I found.

* Release 2.00

** Upgrade for Pacman 3.5
   Converted to the new libalpm that is distributed with pacman 3.5.

*** alpm_db_register_local removed
    You don't have to call ALPM->register() to register the local DB.
    The local DB is registered automatically when you call
    ALPM->localdb aka ALPM->get_opt( 'localdb' ).  ALPM::ParseConfig
    no longer takes the 'autoregister' parameter.

*** Transaction functions absorbed into install() and uninstall()
    The two new ALPM::Transaction methods, install and uninstall,
    replace the old sync, pkgfile, remove, and sync_from_db
    methods.

    The new methods take package objects as arguments. The old
    methods took package names as arguments. This reflects the same
    libalpm changes.

** ALPM method aliases removed
   For some reason I made aliases everytime I changed a function name.
   I don't think anyone uses this module anyways so I just yanked out
   a bunch of old method aliases I had setup. The following are
   removed from the ALPM class, just use their alternate names.

   |----------------+--------------|
   | Removed Method | "New" Method |
   |----------------+--------------|
   | register_db    | register     |
   | transaction    | trans        |
   | action         | trans        |
   | databases      | dbs          |
   | repodb         | db           |
   |----------------+--------------|

** New Changelog Format
   Ditched the old GNU-style ChangeLog format for an org-mode file. Old
   ChangeLog entries are at the end of the file...

* Previous Releases

2011-03-05  Justin Davis  <juster@cpan.org>

	* RELEASE (1.03)

	* t: Fix many tests that rely on English language error messages.

	* lib/ALPM/LoadConfig.pm (_make_parser): Change the pacman.conf
	parser to properly recognize fields which are only field names.
	"= <value>" does not necessary follow them.

2011-03-04  Justin Davis  <juster@cpan.org>

	* RELEASE (1.02)

	* lib/ALPM/LoadConfig.pm: Fix bug where config file repos could
	not have hyphens ("-"). Reported by knotty.

2010-11-21  Justin Davis  <juster@cpan.org>

	* lib/ALPM/Package.pm (attribs): Fix attribs to return a list and
	not an array reference.

2010-06-22  Justin Davis  <juster@cpan.org>

	* lib/ALPM.pm (transaction): Removed type parameter from
	transaction method.

	* ALPM.xs: Renamed ALPM::DB method set_server to add_url.

2010-05-29  Justin Davis  <juster@cpan.org>

	* RELEASE (0.08): Uploaded to CPAN.

	* typemap (find_group): Fix a bug with group type conversion.
	This caused ALPM::DB::find_group() to croak instead of (properly)
	returning undef when given a group name that didn't exist.
	Reported by Andre Schmidt. Thanks!

2010-05-24  Justin Davis  <juster@cpan.org>

	* ALPM.xs (ALPM::Package): Renamed compute_requiredby method to
	requiredby.

2010-05-02  Justin Davis  <juster@cpan.org>

	* t/04-FakeRepos.t: Add support for .pkg.tar.xz package files.

	* lib/ALPM/LoadConfig.pm: Add support for UseDelta setting in
	pacman.conf.

2010-01-25  Justin Davis  <jrcd83@gmail.com>