From 900c622272c0592d06b1c347c32c783da1309bca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sean Whitton Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2022 10:18:55 -0700 Subject: APT properties: cache packages installed or removed this deployment Thanks to David Bremner for discussion and testing. Signed-off-by: Sean Whitton --- doc/news.rst | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/news.rst b/doc/news.rst index ff76424..717334f 100644 --- a/doc/news.rst +++ b/doc/news.rst @@ -23,6 +23,17 @@ In summary, you should always be able to upgrade to a release which only increments ``patch``, but if either of the other two components have changed, you should review this document and see if your consfig needs updating. +1.2.0 (unreleased) +------------------ + +- APT properties now cache what packages have been explicitly installed and + removed this deployment. This should significantly speed up many + deployments. User properties which install or remove packages by calling + apt-get(8) or dpkg(1) directly might inadvertedly render the lists of + properties installed and removed invalid. Such properties should be changed + to call or apply the new APT:KNOWN-INSTALLED-REMOVED-PACKAGES-RESET property + to invalidate the cache. + 1.1.1 (2022-09-18) ------------------ -- cgit v1.2.3