NEWS

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