ProteanOS Archive Manager 1.3.0 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/1.3.0/
    ftp://files.proteanos.com/pub/pro-archman/1.3.0/

Here are the MD5 checksums:

    b0fee4c72634800e58f07a884f5efe5f  pro-archman-1.3.0.tar.bz2
    068832331e78d21940cea133fa09e7d5  pro-archman-1.3.0.tar.gz
    810e095d091d13ab575db59aad782b37  pro-archman-1.3.0.tar.xz

Here are the SHA-256 checksums:

    410bfd9606370fb3b1fe0bf8aa4fe047ea4bbd7cc365759dc5c74cbb76a2e58d  pro-archman-1.3.0.tar.bz2
    92299f418ee4c89f92c6168136ae4014e042194e360a901495ea8c99767dd5a0  pro-archman-1.3.0.tar.gz
    fc98d9d6ded9e496c22121e043bfa76b1354950440b511257baa458e12133a5d  pro-archman-1.3.0.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/1.3.0" tag.

NEWS for Version 1.3.0
======================

Changes in this release:

  * A new "conf_verbose" configuration variable and "-v" option have
    been added to control the verbosity of informational output.
  * Garbage collection now works.
  * The "process-incoming" command no longer prints odd warnings when
    including new source versions of packages.

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