NEWS

   1 5.21    - Released 2006-11-15
   2         - pkgmk now writes warnings and errors to stderr instead of
   3           stdout (Tilman Sauerbeck)
   4         - Optimized file type detection for stripping in pkgmk
   5           (Antti Nykänen)
   6         - Added INSTALL rule support
   7           (Johannes Winkelmann, Tilman Sauerbeck)
   8
   9
  10 5.20            - Released 2005-05-04
  11                 - pkgadd/rejmerge will now consider user, group and access
  12                   permissions on rejected files.
  13
  14 5.19            - Released 2005-03-29
  15                 - pkgadd: improved support for automatically removing
  16                   rejected files that are identical to already installed files.
  17                 - pkgmk: added support for resuming interrupted downloads.
  18                   Thanks to Johannes Winkelmann <jw@tks6.net>
  19                 - pkgmk: added option -cm/--check-md5sum, which checks the
  20                   md5sum but does not build the package.
  21                 - libtar: fixed bug in symlink handling.
  22                   Thanks to Guillaume Bibaut <guillaume.bibaut@free.fr>
  23
  24 5.18            - Released 2004-05-16
  25                 - rejmerge: files created when merging will now get the same
  26                   access permissions as the installed version.
  27                   Thanks to Han Boetes <han@mijncomputer.nl>
  28                 - rejmerge: file diffs/merges are now piped through more(1).
  29                 - pkgadd/pkgrm: fixed a bug that could result in a corrupt
  30                   database when running low on disk space.
  31                 - pkgadd: directories can now be specified in rules in
  32                   pkgadd.conf. (This fix was supposed to be part of the 5.14
  33                   release, but was forgotten and actually never included).
  34
  35 5.17            - Released 2004-05-10
  36                 - Fixed two bugs in rejmerge.
  37
  38 5.16            - Released 2004-05-09
  39                 - pkgmk no longer redirects errors to /dev/null when removing
  40                   the work dir.
  41                 - Minor man page updates.
  42
  43 5.15            - Released 2004-05-02
  44                 - Fixed bug in makefile.
  45
  46 5.14            - Released 2004-05-02
  47                 - Added new utility called rejmerge.
  48                   See rejmerge(8) man page for more information.
  49                 - pkginfo -o now accepts regular expressions.
  50                 - Directories can now be specified in rules in pkgadd.conf.
  51                 - pkgadd/pkgrm now executes ldconfig after installing/removing
  52                   a package.
  53                 - Minor cleanups.
  54
  55 5.13            - Released 2003-12-16
  56                 - Removed "link to ..." from .footprint.
  57                 - pkgmk now allows the source=() array to be empty. This
  58                   is useful for packages that only want create directory
  59                   structures and/or symlinks.
  60
  61 5.12            - Released 2003-11-30
  62                 - Added support for .nostrip, an optional file containing
  63                   regular expressions matching files that should not be
  64                   stripped. Thanks to Dave Hatton <mail@davehatton.it>
  65
  66 5.11            - Released 2003-11-27
  67                 - Fixed bug in footprint generation.
  68                 - Fixed bug in file stripping.
  69
  70 5.10            - Released 2003-11-08
  71                 - pkginfo: Added option -f/--footprint, which generates a
  72                   package footprint. The old method for generating footprints
  73                   failed in special cases.
  74                 - pkgmk: Updated to use pkginfo -f when creating footprints.
  75                 - pkgmk: Fixed bug in man page compression.
  76                 - pkgmk: Removed support for ROOT in Pkgfiles, use PKGMK_ROOT
  77                   instead.
  78                 - pkgmk: Removed support for SOURCE_DIR, PACKAGE_DIR and
  79                   WORK_DIR, use PKGMK_SOURCE_DIR, PKGMK_PACKAGE_DIR and
  80                   PKGMK_WORK_DIR instead.
  81
  82 5.9             - Released 2003-10-19
  83                 - Fixed bug in database backup code.
  84                 - Rejected files that are empty or equal to the already
  85                   installed version are now automatically removed.
  86
  87 5.8             - Released 2003-10-03
  88                 - Fixed memory leak in pkgadd.
  89                 - Patched libtar to fix memory leak.
  90                 - Patched libtar to reduce memory usage.
  91                 - Updated default pkgadd.conf.
  92
  93 5.7             - Released 2003-07-31
  94                 - pkgmk: Reintroduced the $ROOT variable.
  95
  96 5.6             - Released 2003-07-05
  97                 - pkgmk: Added automatic stripping of libraries (can be
  98                   disabled with -ns/--no-strip).
  99                 - pkgmk: Added option -if/--ignore-footprint, which builds a
 100                   package without checking the footprint.
 101                 - pkgmk: Synchronized names of variables exposed in pkgmk.conf
 102                   to avoid potential conflicts. All variables now start with
 103                   PKGMK_. The old names (SOURCE_DIR, PACKAGE_DIR and WORK_DIR)
 104                   still work but this backwards compatibility will be removed
 105                   in the future.
 106
 107 5.5             - Released 2003-05-03
 108                 - pkgmk: Added support for alternative source, package and work
 109                   directories. Variables SOURCE_DIR, PACKAGE_DIR and WORK_DIR
 110                   can be set in /etc/pkgmk.conf.
 111                   Thanks to Markus Ackermann <maol@symlink.ch>.
 112                 - Minor changes to some info/error messages.
 113
 114 5.4             - Released 2003-03-09
 115                 - pkgmk: Added option -c/--clean, which removes the package
 116                   and the downloaded source files.
 117                 - Upgraded bundled libtar from 1.2.10 to 1.2.11. This
 118                   version of libtar fixes a spurious "permission denied"
 119                   error, which sometimes occurred when running "pkgadd -u".
 120
 121 5.3             - Released 2003-02-05
 122                 - pkgadd: the combination of -f and -u now respects the
 123                   upgrade configuration in /etc/pkgadd.conf. This is
 124                   needed to better support upgrades where ownership of
 125                   files has been moved from one package to another.
 126                 - pkgadd/pkgrm/pkginfo: improved/reworked database locking
 127                   and error handling.
 128                 - pkgmk: added -o to unzip to make it behave more like tar
 129                   and avoid user intaraction when overwriting files.
 130                   Thanks to Andreas Sundström <sunkan@zappa.cx>.
 131                 - Upgraded bundled libtar from 1.2.9 to 1.2.10.
 132
 133 5.2             - Released 2002-12-08
 134                 - pkgmk: exports LC_ALL=POSIX to force utilities to use a
 135                   neutral locate.
 136                 - Upgraded bundled libtar from 1.2.8 to 1.2.9.
 137
 138 5.1             - Released 2002-10-27
 139                 - Upgraded bundled libtar from 1.2.5 to 1.2.8.
 140                 - pkgadd/pkgrm/pkginfo: Added file-locking on database to
 141                   prevent more than one instance of pkgadd/pkgrm/pkginfo from
 142                   running at the same time.
 143                 - pkgadd: Fixed a bug in libtar that caused segmentation fault
 144                   when extracting files whose filenames contains characters
 145                   with ascii value > 127.
 146                 - pkgmk: Fixed bug which caused suid/sgid binaries to become
 147                   unstripped.
 148                 - pkgmk: Added option -ns/--no-strip. Use it to avoid stripping
 149                   binaries in a package.
 150                 - pkginfo: -o/--owner does not require the whole path to the
 151                   file anymore.
 152
 153 5.0             - Released 2002-09-09
 154                 - Now requires GCC 3.2 to compile (due to STL incompatibility).
 155                 - pkginfo: -o/--owner now prepends the current directory to
 156                   the file argument unless it starts with /. This feature is
 157                   disable when using the -r/--root option.
 158                 - pkgmk: The build() function will now be aborted as soon
 159                   as some command exits with an exit code other than 0 (zero).
 160                 - pkgmk: Binaries are now stripped automatically.
 161                 - pkgmk: Man pages are now compressed automatically.
 162                 - pkgmk: Symlinks are always given access permissions
 163                   lrwxrwxrwx in .footprint, regardless of the actual
 164                   access permissions. This avoids footprint problems
 165                   when using e.g. XFS.
 166
 167 4.4             - Released 2002-06-30
 168                 - Added option -cf, --config-file to pkgmk.
 169                 - Minor bugfixes.
 170
 171 4.3             - Released 2002-06-11
 172                 - Removed Pkgfile.local-feature which was added in 4.2. It
 173                   didn't work very well in some (common) situations.
 174                 - Corrected spelling errors in pkgmk.
 175
 176 4.2             - Released 2002-05-17
 177                 - Added support for Pkgfile.local, which enables users to
 178                   tweak packages by overriding parts of the original
 179                   Pkgfile. This is useful when pkgmk is used in CRUX's
 180                   ports system, where users will loose changes made to the
 181                   original Pkgfile the next time they update their ports
 182                   structure.
 183                 - Minor cleanups.
 184
 185 4.1             - Released 2002-04-08
 186                 - Added support for preventing selected files (typically
 187                   configuration files) from being overwritten when upgrading
 188                   a package. The file /etc/pkgadd.conf, contains a list of
 189                   rules with regular expressions specifying these files. These
 190                   rules will be consulted when executing pkgadd with the
 191                   option -u. Files that, according to the rules, shouldn't be
 192                   upgraded will instead be installed under
 193                   /var/lib/pkg/rejected/. The user can then examine, use and
 194                   remove these files manually if so desired.
 195                 - Added md5sum checking (.md5sum contains the MD5 checksum of
 196                   all source files). pkgmk uses this file to verify that
 197                   the (potentially downloaded) source files are correct.
 198                 - Upgraded bundled libtar from 1.2.4 to 1.2.5.
 199
 200 4.0.1           - Released 2002-01-20
 201                 - Removed warning "unable to remove XXX: Directory not empty"
 202                   when upgrading a package.
 203
 204 4.0             - Released 2002-01-14
 205                 - Packages are now identified by their names only (and
 206                   not by name and version as before). This makes it easier
 207                   for users to upgrade and remove packages. This, of course,
 208                   comes with a price. You can not install two packages with
 209                   the same name.
 210                 - The naming convention for packages is now:
 211                         name#version-release.pkg.tar.gz
 212                   The character '#' is not allowed in package names, since
 213                   it's used as the name/version delimiter.
 214                 - New database layout, which gives a more robust database
 215                   with a transaction-like behaviour. This implementation
 216                   will gurantee that the database will never be corrupted
 217                   even if the power fails when pkgadd/pkgrm is running. It
 218                   does however not guarantee that the database contents is
 219                   in sync with the filesystem if such a crash should occur.
 220                   This means that the database will _never_ loose track of
 221                   files that are installed, but it can (in case of a crash)
 222                   contain files that are actually not installed. Repeating
 223                   the pkgadd/pkgrm command that was running when the crash
 224                   occured will get the database in sync with the filesystem
 225                   again.
 226                 - pkgmk is now capable of downloading missing source files
 227                   (using wget) before building a package (option -d), given
 228                   that the URL is specified in the "source" variable.
 229                 - pkg.build was renamed to Pkgfile (to mimic make/Makefile).
 230                 - pkg.contents was renamed to .footprint.
 231                 - pkgmk is now capable of installing/upgrading a package if
 232                   the build was successful (option -i and -u).
 233                 - Lot's of minor fixes and cleanups.
 234
 235 0.1 - 3.2.0     - Released 2000-05-10 - 2001-10-03
 236                 (No change log was maintained during this time)