bspm 0.3.10

• Check backend availability on enable(), and trigger a warning if the service is required but not found. This check can be disabled by setting options(bspm.backend.check=FALSE) (#40).

bspm 0.3.9

• Force sudo unconditionally also with autodetection (#27, #28).
• Call update_cache in DNF install transactions (#29).
• Add ALPM backend (#35 addressing #34).
• Fix repeated installation issue in APT backend (#36).

bspm 0.3.8

• Fix spurious error with options(bspm.always.install.deps=TRUE) (#25).
• Ensure that options(bspm.sudo=TRUE) forces sudo unconditionally (#28).
• Add new options(bspm.sudo.autodetect=TRUE) (not set by default) to enable passwordless sudo autodetection on every call (#27).

bspm 0.3.7

• Fix spurious error with options(bspm.always.install.deps=TRUE) (#24).

bspm 0.3.6

• Make APT call fail if there are unmet dependencies (#20).
• Add new options(bspm.always.install.deps=TRUE) (not set by default) to always try to install recursive hard dependencies of packages from system repositories even if the requested package is not available (#14, #23).
• Add a note about SELinux (#19).

bspm 0.3.5

• Fix noise when busctl is installed but there’s no system bus (docker) (#12).
• Workaround issue with file permissions under /tmp (#13).
• Fix compatibility with Python 3.6 (#16 addressing #15).
• Workaround PATH for old versions of APT/dpkg (#17 addressing #15).
• Prioritize options(bspm.sudo=TRUE) over DBus calls (as part of #16), so that any DBus error or incompatibility can be at least bypassed with sudo.

bspm 0.3.4

• Fix installation issue reported by CRAN on Solaris.

bspm 0.3.3

• Cosmetic changes suggested by CRAN.
• Small configure fix.

bspm 0.3.2

• Implement functions to discover new prefixes dynamically (#3).
• Fall back to sudo if no root permissions nor D-Bus service are available.
• More documentation, some examples, and testing.

bspm 0.3.1

• Simplified installation, because D-Bus files are always in the same place.
• Support for multiple prefixes and exclusions (#1).
• Improve APT cache management (#4).
• Fix newlines in APT output (#5).
• Load D-Bus variables locally instead of in the global environment (#6).

bspm 0.3.0

• New package name, as suggested by @eddelbuettel; improved title & description.
• Allow root user to talk directly to the system package manager, without D-Bus.

PackageManager 0.2.1

• Add APT backend.

PackageManager 0.2.0

• Initial fork from cran2copr project, reworked to make it extensible.
• Currently, only DNF backend supported.