v27 - General maintenance

General maintenance release

• Fix ugly eopkg filesdb dep bug
• Support glvnd switch
• Use bsdtar when possible as GNU tar is a nightmare with overlayfs
• Support disabling the stripping of .la libtool files with lastrip: no
• Support haswell subdir arch for AVX2 support in glibc
• New ninja_* macros to replace old meson specific macros
• New %cmake_ninja macro to build cmake using Ninja to save on build times
• Fix ruby gem macros
• Fix documentation
• etc

v26 - Kernel module support

This release is designed to facilitate in easier kernel module packaging for the ongoing Solus restructuring to integrate usysconf and deprecate COMAR packages entirely.

• Fix no-symbolic opt flag to ensure we can drop -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions during build (for certain X11 components)
• Implement automatic kernel module dependencies (resolve .ko vermagic to providing kernel package)
• Ensure dependency relation of kernels is release== not releaseFrom= - this ensures a kernel cannot be upgraded without the relevant kernel modules on the system also having updates

v25

• Fix Pythonic macros to work with 2&3 builds
• Teach ypkg to handle auto as a job count to set it automatically
• Support non Solus systems
• Add support for prefixless package names with ^ name specifier

v24

• Support SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
• Updated robust Python macros
• New gem macros
• Support linux-current package
• Updated meson macros (check)
• Support new lto, thin-lto, no-symbolic args for list-type optimize key
• Drop unsupported flags for Solus builds (-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections etc)
• Ensure clang can happily operate in all modes
• Fix FCFLAGS & FFLAGS

etc.

v23

• Clang support
• Resupport GCC6
• Fix interdependencies in 32-bit and 64-bit builds
• Fix broken git builds (borked hardlinks increasing sizes)
• Forbid circular dependencies
• Allow package to replace multiple similar names

v22

• Add new kernel macro for determining active LTS release
• Add new debug option to control dbginfo generation

v21

• Fix stripping for .a files (mangling too hard)
• Ensure we can work with multiple variations of BIND_NOW_FLAGS
• Explicitly set the build directory for %meson_*
• Fix URL for packaging assistance

v20

• Fix new Haskell %cabal_* macros with introduction of %ARCH% variable
• Strip .comment section from all current ar archives (.a) for enormous disk savings (GHC package reduction of 343MB)

v19

• Support for permanent paths (for future clr-boot-manager integration)
• Fix timestamp persistence for reproducible builds within solbuild
• Fix stripping of *.a ar archives
• Enhance meson_configure macro to support Budgie Desktop properly
• Disable borked -flto usage in optimize: speed
• Add qmake4 macro for Qt4 projects
• Add macros/patterns for Haskell packaging

v18

• Add documentation by way of manpages
• Fix resolution of pkgconfig32 dependencies during build depscan phase