ProteanOS Archive Manager 1.2.0 released

About
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This is pro-archman, the ProteanOS Archive Manager.

pro-archman manages packages in an archive laid out as explained in this
specification:

    http://www.proteanos.com/dev/archive/layout/

The ProteanOS Archive Manager can:

  * Include new packages into an archive;
  * Scan an "incoming" directory for new packages;
  * Remove packages from an archive suite;
  * Copy packages from one archive suite to another;
  * Remove an archive suite;
  * Efficiently generate feed index files that package managers can use
    to find packages in the archive; and
  * Remove old package files after a delay, allowing package managers to
    find packages listed in cached feed index files.

Here is the Web page for the ProteanOS Archive Manager:

    http://www.proteanos.com/dev/pro-archman/

Downloading
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Source archives are available in gzip, bzip2, or xz compression from the
ProteanOS files site by HTTP or FTP:

    http://files.proteanos.com/pub/pro-archman/1.2.0/
    ftp://files.proteanos.com/pub/pro-archman/1.2.0/

Here are the MD5 checksums:

    79105df72564e2156f1689c09f0eccbb  pro-archman-1.2.0.tar.bz2
    d99287af0bc55babda3ed30db2f98a8f  pro-archman-1.2.0.tar.gz
    18b20bb45cb1c7e24279ad6d448ffe1f  pro-archman-1.2.0.tar.xz

Here are the SHA-256 checksums:

    510a0dac460c9df81982f5c696a0bd70c4d9a5903d2574150a4a1f1c35586578  pro-archman-1.2.0.tar.bz2
    976ca1bf99683c8cef962b85b83fe2f3b0ba28c59515ad4091d21c2f135843e0  pro-archman-1.2.0.tar.gz
    0d0174e693eff1145fc8662d1b52ce5ead92d7849b799a703d4689a06838d976  pro-archman-1.2.0.tar.xz

The sources are maintained in a Git repository:

    http://git.proteanos.com/pro-archman/pro-archman.git/
    git://git.proteanos.com/pro-archman/pro-archman.git/

This release is marked by the "pro-archman/1.2.0" tag.

NEWS for Version 1.2.0
======================

Changes in this release:

  * A new "SHA256sum" field is now written to "Packages" index files.

-- 
Patrick "P. J." McDermott
  http://www.pehjota.net/
Lead Developer, ProteanOS
  http://www.proteanos.com/