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-# Document: ChangeLog.slacktrack
-# Purpose : Document the changes that have occurred in 'slacktrack'
-##############################################################################
-
-07-Jun-2017 - v2.18
- * Added option --run-after-withlog
- This option is the same as -R, --run-after, with the only difference
- being that any output from that script is logged to the slacktrack build
- log.
-
-25-Apr-2015 - v2.17
- * Cleaned up superfluous white space.
- * Added operator -o, --no-fs-search
- Prior to beginning a build, and post build, slacktrack uses the 'find'
- command to scan the OS' file system, and stores these records. The
- difference between the two records are used to determine the package's
- contents.
-
- This default set is ideal for a default Slackware installation, but some
- users have data in other directories which should never be included in a
- package. Scanning these additional directories takes extra time and serves
- no purpose.
-
- While the -x,--exclude operator is applied to the final package
- contents list, -o, --no-fs-search is applied before and can be used to
- significantly speed up the searches that build the before/after file lists.
-
- Thanks to Andrew Lyon for the patch.
-
-10-Jan-2014 - v2.16
- * Added the following paths to the default exclude list:
- /usr/man/whatis
- /usr/local/man/whatis
- /var/lib/pgsql/
- /var/lib/mysql/
- Thanks to Eduard Rozenberg.
- * Updated the 'OVERVIEW' doc to correct a couple of small details.
- * Updated man pages to conform with stricter pod2man syntax.
- * Updated FAQ to explain why after using one of the 'touch file system'
- options, root is notified about having new mail.
-
-23-May-2013 - v2.15
- * Added the $PWD from which slacktrack was invoked in to the default exclude
- list. This allows a package's source directory to be in a non-default
- excluded path and receive updates (such as log files) and avoid slacktrack
- including them in the newly created package file.
- Thanks to Eduard Rozenberg.
-
-10-May-2013 - v2.14
- * Removed '-i, --install' flag from the man page and the slacktrack script,
- as this has been a no-op since slacktrack stopped using 'installwatch'.
- Thanks to Michael Stewart.
- * Added /etc/ntp/drift to the default exclude list.
- Thanks to Eduard Rozenberg.
-
-05-Apr-2013 - v2.13
- * Use '-c' operator to 'touch' when touching the file system. This avoids
- creating empty files that were referenced from a dangling symlink, and
- avoids creating empty files when using the (not recommended) 'faster'
- file system touch option.
- * Moved slacktrack's 'ln' wrapper from /usr/share/slacktrack to
- /usr/libexec/slacktrack, since /usr/share is for architecture independent
- files.
- Thanks to Darren Austin for the suggestion.
- * Added '/usr/libexec' to the default list of library locations that will
- have their ELF objects stripped.
- * Capture the output of touching the file system into the slacktrack log
- file, as this can be useful for recording any issues resulting from touching
- files on the file system (such as dangling symlinks in existing installed
- packages).
- * Support supplying the full path name using the -p operator. Previously,
- to store the resulting .t?z package in a location other than the default
- ('/tmp'), you had to supply -b <dir name> in addition to -p <package name>
- This was a somewhat wooly distinction between package *name* and package
- *file name*.
- The package name can now be supplied using:
- # slacktrack [options] -p /somedir/foo-1.01-arm-2.tgz
- The -b operator is still effective, so previous 'trackbuild' scripts will
- continue to work as before.
- Thanks to Eduard Rozenberg for the suggestion.
-
-18-Sep-2012 - v2.12
- * Added /run to the list of default path exclusions.
-
-27-May-2012 - v2.11
- * Added /var/lib/NetworkManager to the list of default path exclusions.
- Thanks to Patrick Volkerding for the suggestion.
-
-05-Nov-2011 - v2.10
- * Added --allow-overlapping option to permit the package to contain files
- that overlap with existing packages installed on the system.
- The default is to permit this behaviour, but if you're using the -Q option
- as I do to build my packages, you'll find that there's no way to switch
- the behaviour off whilst building an otherwise Slackware standards
- compliant package.
- To use this option you will need to supply it on the command line
- after '-Q'.
- * Fixed bug where --delete-overlapping was expecting an input.
- * To the default path exclusion list, the following paths have been added:
- /var/spool/cron/cron
- /dev/bus/
- /dev/char/
- /dev/rfkill
-
-25-Sep-2011 - v2.09
- * Fixed formatting issues with the man pages exposed by a newer version
- of "pod2man". Thanks to Branko Grubic for the report and the patches.
- * The /var/log/{packages,scripts}/$PACKAGE entries of the unprocessed
- package contents (just after slacktrack completes execution of the
- supplied package build script) were incorrect due to slacktrack not
- handling symlinks when creating these entries - any symlinks were treated
- treated as files which caused "removepkg" to emit messages such as
- ".. no longer exists"
- slacktrack now uses "makepkg" and "installpkg" to correctly create and
- handle the /var/log/{packages,scripts} entries.
- Thanks to Roberto for the report and a good detailed explaination.
- * Removed /usr/bin/altertrack symlink to /usr/bin/slacktrack. It's
- been years since altertrack was a separate tool. If you have any
- scripts still calling "altertrack" -- change them :-)
- * When deleting perllocal.pod files, look in /usr/lib & /usr/lib64
- * Warn if any files in the newly built package overlap with other packages
- that are already installed on the system.
- * Added -X, --delete-overlapping option.
- This option deletes any of the overlapping files from the new package.
- The -Q option now includes the erasing of any overlapping files.
- * Do not emit the name of the newly built package when displaying the
- list of package dependencies.
-
-08-Nov-2010 - v2.08
- * Exclude /var/lib/dhcpcd from being included in the package contents.
-
-18-Dec-2009 - v2.07
- * Rewrote package_name() function to cater for "old style" package names.
- Thanks to Jim Hawkins for the bit of sed script.
- * Prevent /etc/dhcpc, /var/run and /etc/resolv.conf from appearing in
- the package contents. This is especially useful when your build
- machine is using dhcpcd to manage its network address.
-
-16-July-2009 - v2.06
- * Added /lib/udev/devices to the default path exclusion list.
- Files in here are generated and maintained by udev and should not
- be included in packages.
-
-02-June-2009 - v2.05
- * If after removing orphaned *.pyc files, their previous & parent
- directories become empty, delete the directories.
-
-29-May-2009 - v2.04
- * Added -Y, --delete-orphaned-pyc option.
- Within the package contents, if slacktrack finds *.pyc files without a
- matching *.py file, the *.pyc files will be removed from the package
- contents.
- Thanks to Patrick Volkerding for the suggestion.
- Updated slacktrack(8).
-
-15-May-2009 - v2.03
- slackdtxt:
- * Updated to handle .tgz, .tbz, .tlz, .txz file extensions
- Thanks to Patrick Volkerding.
- * Renamed --nodeletetgz option in to --nodelete.
- * Updated slackdtxt(8)
- slacktrack:
- * Added /usr/lib64 and /lib64 to the list of known library directories.
- Thanks to Eric Hameleers for reminding me.
-
-12-May-2009 - v2.02
-
- This is an interim release to allow slacktrack to work with the
- additional package compression formats introduced in Slackware v13.
- The documentation & the 'slackdtxt' utility will be updated at a
- later date.
-
- * Renamed --md5sumtgz option to --md5sum because starting at
- Slackware v13, the package format has been expanded to several
- other compression types; updated slacktrack(8).
- * No longer suffix ".tgz" to a package name if the ".tgz" extension
- wasn't specified. This allows you to specify one of the new alternate
- package file extensions: .tgz, .tbz, .tlz and .txz
- * Added /usr/share/slacktrack/ln which is an ln wrapper.
- This calls /bin/ln with the -f (force) option which allows the
- time stamp to get updated on symlinks.
- Thanks to Jim Hawkins for writing this wrapper.
-
-19-Nov-2008 - v2.01
- * Added /var/cache/ to the default exclude list.
- This excludes SAMBA's 'browse.dat'.
- Thanks to Eduard Rozenberg for the suggestion.
- * Updated 'dvd_libs' example build scripts to use libdvdcss-1.2.10
- and verified the source URLs for the other components.
- (You must still download the source yourself).
-
-17-Sep-2008 - v2.00
- * The 'slacktrack' tool is now what used to be shipped as 'altertrack'.
- This tool tracks installations directly within a live root file system
- rather than a pseudo root file system.
-
- ** Important: This means that you *MUST* now run slacktrack on a
- devbox only **
-
- Please read /usr/doc/slacktrack*/RELEASE_NOTES for
- important details about migrating from the previous version of
- slacktrack.
-
-
- * Changed to BSD licence for 'slacktrack' and 'slackdtxt' tools.
- The only reason it was previously GPL was because this was the licence
- installwatch used.
- * Updated documentation & man pages.
- * A GPG signing key must be specified when using the -G,--gpg-sign option;
- it will not fall back on the default. This is because the code
- to parse the command line operators doesn't work. I checked
- the supplied examples for getopt and even they don't work!
- (Perhaps it used to work with older versions of bash?)
- * Added -P, --delete-perllocalpod option.
- This deletes any 'perllocal.pod' found within the package's /usr/lib.
- perllocal.pod files should only be included with the Slackware 'perl'
- package.
- * The -Q (set options to build a Slackware compliant package) option now
- sets the -P, --delete-perllocalpod options.
- * Removed --froot operator. This used to run the 'fakeroot' daemon
- and LD_PRELOAD the fakeroot library to make your user environment
- appear as if were root, with the intention of allowing package utilities
- to set ownerships of files/dirs -- an ability allowed only for root.
- However, since slacktrack needs to be run as root to make a useful
- package (it's unlikely you'd use slacktrack to track files in a
- non-root location, eg /mypackages/), then this option is defunct.
- * Removed --with-scratchbox. This deleted the /dev and /home
- directories that used to find their way into early ARMedslack packages.
- ARMedslack has not used scratchbox in years, and I can't imagine
- anybody else ever used this option!
- * Build script examples are now bundled with the package rather than
- being on a separate web site (since there's no cholestrol
- from installwatch)
- * Added "/dev/input$|/dev/input/|/dev/.udev/|/dev/.udev$" to the default
- exclude list because udev is now keeping some live data in there.
-
-08-Feb-2008 - v1.33 - build 1 [ Not released ]
- * Replaced installwatch with 'libsentry' - a fork of installwatch
- by Gilbert Ashley.
-
-29-Jun-2007 - v1.32 - build 1, Slackware 12.0 special version.
- * Fixed a bug where if --stripallexec was used, it wasn't stripping
- all ELFs (.so, bins & .a files).
- * Replaced slacktrack script with a dummy for the release of
- Slackware 12.0. The new *at-style functions that coreutils 6.7+
- are not tracked by installwatch, so chown, chmod et al do not work.
- The real slacktrack script (if you wanted to use it) is named
- /usr/bin/slacktrack-real
-
-05-May-2007 - v1.31 - build 2
- * Fixed a bug in altertrack's --touch-filesystem-first code.
- See docs/ChangeLog.altertrack.
- * Updated slacktrack(8): -Q option now states that files in binary
- directories are chown root:root not root:bin.
- Thanks to Eduard Rozenberg for noticing that.
-
-31-Mar-2007 - v1.31 - build 1
- * When gzipping man & info pages, force compression (gzip -f)
- * Applied Fred Emmott's portable patch to installwatch to make it
- work on 64bit machines.
-
-19-Feb-2007 - v1.30 - build 1
- * Move installwatch library from /usr/lib/installwatch.so
- /usr/lib/installwatch-slacktrack.so
- This prevents an installation conflict with checkinstall.
- Thanks to Henrik Carlqvist for the suggestion.
-
-04-Apr-2006 - v1.29 - build 1
- * Added new option, -m|--chown-bins-root-root
- This sets ownerships of files and directories in the standard Slackware
- binary directories to 'root:root'.
- This change is for Slackware v11 - binary directories are no longer
- chown root:bin.
- * The -Q option now sets -m rather than chowning root:bin.
- If you want root:bin, specify the -f and -e options. The command would
- look something like this:
-
- # slacktrack -Q -fe -p moose-1.0-i486-1.tgz ./moose.build
-
- * Added /media,/srv and /selinux to the 'watch' patch exclusion list
- (any changes to these paths will be excluded from the package).
- Updated slacktrack(1) with the new paths.
-
-14-Nov-2005 - v1.28 - build 1
- * Fixed a bug where any man page symlinks broken by gzipping were not
- being repaired.
- Thanks to Andrei Levin for the bug report.
-
-22-Sep-2005 - v1.27 build 1
- * Rewrote the slack-desc file to explain what slacktrack actually does
- in simple words :-)
- * Added /var/lib/rpm to list of excluded paths. This allows you to
- do some seriously kludgey stuff like build from a source RPM and
- install the binary RPM as part of the build script.
- Very useful sometimes - docbook is an example :-)
- * Fixed bug where if a temporary directory was manually specified with -T,
- its contents were tracked by installwatch. Manually set temporary
- directories are now in installwatch's exclude list.
- Thanks to Gufo for reporting this.
- * slacktrack will now return error code 6 and abort if it finds the
- temporary directory (either chosen automatically or selected via the
- -T|--tempdir option) already exists. This is to prevent slacktrack
- from wiping user data without any warning.
- slacktrack does not create a sub directory within the specified area;
- it was never designed to do so, so this is the best option.
- * Modified man page to reflect the above change, and added error code 6
- to the error code section.
- Thanks to Gufo for suggesting this change.
-
-22-Jul-2005 - v1.26 build 1
- * Added /opt/kde/man to the list of man page directories.
-
-08-May-2005 - v1.25 build 1
- * Renamed internal string 'VERSION' to 'SLACKTRACKVERSION' as it's
- too much of a generic name and can cause confusion as it's exported
- to the build script/environment.
-
-21-Mar-2004 - v1.24 build 1
- * Added /sys to the list of excluded paths
- * Fixed bug with chowning files that was introduced in v1.19.
- Files with brackets in the name would get interpreted by bash. Now
- these names are enclosed within '' to prevent this.
- * Trimmed down --help text a little - it's too wordy.
- * Added a patch to installwatch which was posted by Alexander Kern on the
- checkinstall mailing list:
- It adds simply "utimes" and "setxattr" to the list of
- intercepted functions.
- - Please note, however, that I am aware that there seems to be a problem
- with installwatch on Slackware-10.1, although it does not show up when
- building all software. I am looking to replace installwatch with
- something specifically for slacktrack.
-
-09-Dec-2004 - v1.23 build 1
- * Upgraded to installwatch-0.7.0beta4 from checkinstall-1.6.0beta4
- * Fixed bug where you were informed that there were "orphaned" libraries
- and dependencies upon installed packages, but the list was blank.
- This was because the file contained spaces and therefore passed the
- if [ -s ] check.
-
-16-Nov-2004 - v1.22 build 1
- * Fixed a bug where if --notidy was specified and slacktrack/altertrack
- failed to track any changes, the temporary workspace would be deleted.
- This became a bug when I introduced $SLACKTRACKSCRATCHDIR; if a build
- fails then the developer will be interested in looking at the source
- tree which should always be preserved by --notidy.
- * /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/sbin and /usr/X11R? directories & files
- contained within will now:
- - be chown root:bin
- - be stripped (with the same strip option as the major bin directories)
- * man pages in /usr/X11R?/man will now be compressed.
- * Updated slacktrack(8) to reflect the above two changes.
- * Fixed a typo in --help and added a suggested usage line.
- * If an incorrect parameter is specified then --help is directed to STDERR.
- * If no parameters are specified (or there has been no package name
- specified) then the usage message is directed to STDERR.
- * Updated the TODO list.
- * Updated the OVERVIEW document (last update was 09-Dec-2003)
- - Added a couple of new architectures (official & unofficial ports)
- and made a note about i586 binary packages
- - A couple of other minor edits.
-
-26-Aug-2004 - v1.21 build 2
- * Tidied up slacktrack.SlackBuild
- * Updates to altertrack
-
-19-Jun-2004 - v1.21 build 1
- * Only strip debugging symbols (strip -g) from object files in .a archives
- because --strip-unneeded tends to render many object files unusable.
- If you're sure you know what you're doing and want to use strip
- options other than -g, then I suggest doing this inside your build
- script or (if using altertrack) in your post build script.
- Updated slacktrack(8) to reflect this.
- * Use strip -p to preserve dates/time stamps.
- * Fixed a typo in the package info display prior to building the package.
-
-31-May-2004 - v1.20 build 1
- * Changed chown uid.gid to uid:gid
-
-25-Mar-2004 - v1.19 build 1
- * With the recent version of the coreutils package in Slackware-current
- (coreutils-5.2.1), chmod no longer preserves setuid bits. This means
- that if you elect to chown root.bin the binaries, you lose setuid.
- I have implemented a work-around which works with both the new and old
- coreutils chown.
-
-03-Mar-2004 - v1.18 build 1
- * Strip archive files (.a) with --strip-unneeded, as using strip without
- this option causes the contents of some archive files to be unusable.
- Thanks to longname@sezampro for reporting it.
-
-12-Feb-2004 - v1.17 build 1
- * Added --froot option to start the fakeroot server prior to setting
- ownerships and so on. This may be helpful if you are not root on
- the machine where the packages are being prepared. However, if the
- build script or 'make install' sets its own ownerships, these will
- be lost because the fakeroot server is not started until *after* the
- build script finishes. The reason for this is that fakeroot can make
- some configure scripts fail. If you know that the configure script
- you are using does *not* fail under fakeroot, I suggest that you still
- use fakeroot ./trackbuild.xxx
- -- Please note that due to the path to the fakeroot libraries, slacktrack
- only works with fakeroot-0.8.3 and up
- You can download the latest version of a fakeroot Slackware package
- builder from http://www.slackware.com/~mozes --
- * Upgraded to installwatch-0.7.0beta3 from CheckInstall 1.6.0beta3
-
-12-Dec-2003 - v1.16 build 1
- * Updated docs/OVERVIEW
- * Updated docs/TODO
- * Bumped up version number for release.
-
-10-Dec-2003 - v1.15 build 5
- * Tidied up slacktrack.SlackBuild
- Most of the recent changes have been in altertrack (bug fixes) which
- is why the version of slacktrack itself hasn't been updated.
- The usr/doc/slacktrack-version directory is now
- usr/doc/slacktrack-version_build
- because (at present) the build number is important to this project
- because it changes more than the major slacktrack version number.
- * Mentioned installwatch segfaulting in the FAQ.
-
-01-Nov-2003 - v1.15(release)
- * altertrack is now included within the binary .tgz package because
- I'm satisfied that it is just as safe as protopkg, and it enables you
- to build packages from .build scripts that do not work with
- slacktrack/installwatch.
-
-29-Oct-2003 - v1.15rc1
- * If running under fakeroot then remove fakeroot from the list of
- dependencies (it's included because it's LD_PRELOADed)
- (suggested by Emanuele Vicentini).
- Patch from Emanuele Vicentini:
- * Redirect file descriptor 2 to 1 so that the slacktrack log file
- contains anything sent to STDOUT.
-
-22-Oct-2003 - v1.15
- * Added --showdeps option to log to screen and a log file what
- _installed_ Slackware packages your new package relies upon.
- The purpose of this for interest only but I find it useful to ensure
- I haven't just built a package on a box that Xfree86 installed
- and I intend to install and use the package on a box that does not,
- when the package has linked against X's libraries.
- Using this option will also flag up 'orphaned' libraries (ones that
- do not belong to an installed package, which is especially handy
- if you're going to be distributing a package).
- * Added another question to FAQ.
- * Bomb out if /var/log/packages or /var/log/scripts is missing.
-
-20-Oct-2003 - v1.14 [beta only]
- * When stripping shared objects (.so files), look for 'shared' rather
- than 'shared objects' (in the output from 'file') as this was causing
- some files not to be stripped (PHP is an example).
- * Added --mpopts option to allow the inclusion of additional options
- (e.g. --prepend) to Slackware's 'makepkg' program.
- * Fixed bug where by the .txt description file wouldn't be created if
- you had specified a seperate build store directory that didn't end
- with a /
- * No longer create the /install directory because if your build script
- fails to create any files then you don't see the warning slacktrack
- gives you. I could code around this but I think it's cleaner this way.
- * Added /root to the list of directories that will not be included within
- the package. This should help with using ccache when compiling as root.
- You should still see docs/FAQ for help with non-root users.
- It also helps with building CPAN modules.
- * Updated the FAQ with information about using perl -MCPAN -eshell
- (turn off logging and the CPAN interface console will work)
- * Fixed bug where by gzipping info pages wouldn't gunzip .bz files first
- * Forked slacktrack into another script named 'altertrack'. This works
- in a similar fashion to Pat's 'bp' and David Cantrell's 'protopkg' in
- that it compares the differences between the file system before and
- after 'make install', rather than using installwatch.
- This script is available only in the source distribution and is
- totally unsupported (but it works for me). There is an example
- build script contained within the source in the 'examples-altertrack'
- directory.
- * Moved fakeroot's build script (and source) out of slacktrack's source
- and on to http://www.slackware.com/~mozes because it's
- more useful there.
-
-01-Oct-2003 - v1.13
- * Warn if /install/slack-desc not found or 0 bytes
- * The package's /install directory is now created by slacktrack
- _before_ it executes your .build script. This saves you a line
- in your .build script, plus it's required in order
- to meet Slackware package standards (because 'slack-desc' lives
- within /install). However, if you do not wish to have a /install
- directory within your final package, you may delete it within
- your .build script ( rm -rf ${SLACKTRACKFAKEROOT}/install )
- * Updated dependency checking code so that it can handle packages
- that begin with the same name (e.g. 'glib' 'glib2').
- * Updated the fakeroot build scripts for version 0.7.8
- Patches from Emanuele Vicentini:
- * Added -Q, --standard options that specifies all command line switches
- required to create a .tgz file that complies with the Slackware standard.
- * Added -G, --gpg-sign option that will sign the resulting .tgz
- package file with the default user's GnuPG key and placed the
- detached, armored signature (.asc file) in the package store
- directory.
- * Fixed the value of GZINFO (which should be "No" according to the
- man page but was "Yes")
- * Updated man pages, typos fixed and so on.
-
- The easiest way to build a package is now:
- # slacktrack -Qp foo-1.13-i486-1.tgz ./foo.build
-
-11-Jul-2003 - v1.12
- * Added -D, --md5sumtgz option that will create an MD5sum of
- the resulting .tgz package file.
- * Fixed problem with checking the exit code from getopt
- (reported by Emanuele Vicentini).
- * Added a preemptive FAQ
- * Merged Patrick's changes of slacktrack.SlackBuild into mine
- slacktrack.SlackBuild now also creates its own slacktrack-*.txt file
-
-22-Jun-2003 - v1.11r2
- * I'd missed single quotes from a few find commands - fixed.
-
-02-Jun-2003 - v1.11
- * -S, --stripallexec will now strip .a (archive) files.
- * -A, --striparchives option added. This option strips .a archives.
- Suggested by Patrick Volkerding.
- * slacktrack.SlackBuild no longer includes the large collection of
- example scripts into the resulting package .tgz; they're now
- maintained in a separate archive (slacktrack-examples-v??.tar.gz)
- available from http://www.slackware.com/~mozes
-
-28-May-2003 - v1.10r2
- * If deleting 'usr/info/dir' then append this info to the log.
-
-22-May-2003 - v1.10
- * Before gzipping man or info pages we now find any bzip2 (.bz2) files
- and unpack them. I have found that BitchX installs BitchX(1) as
- a bzip2 file. There is no slacktrack option to turn this feature off
- because if we gzip the bzip2'd man page, the man program won't
- work with the file.
- * Added -K, --delete-usrinfodir option. If this option is specified
- then slacktrack will delete the file 'usr/info/dir' if it is
- found in the package.
- This file is a special file used by the 'info' program. To quote
- texinfo's 'dir' file:
- "This (the Directory node) gives a menu of major topics."
- Many programs create their own 'info' file. However, using slacktrack
- (or even a clean SlackBuild script), any such attempts to create
- an up to date 'info' file result in the file only containing
- information about the particular program (or set of programs)
- you have just compiled.
- Therefore you will usually want to delete this file from your
- package so as to avoid overwriting the system version when you
- install your new package.
- The default is not to delete usr/info/dir.
- * As an example, I typically invoke slacktrack as:
- # slacktrack -gfenzKSUIp package-1.00-i386-1.tgz ./package.build
-
-
-16-May-2003 - v1.09
- * Added exported variable: SLACKTRACKSCRATCHDIR
- This variable points to a 'scratch' dir inside slacktrack's temporary
- path. Should they wish to do so, the authors of the build scripts
- can use this directory to save them 'managing' their own temporary
- directories where they unpack the source archives and so on.
- This directory is subject to the same conditions as the rest of the
- slacktrack temporary path -- it will remain if --notidy is specified.
- * Added paragraph in slacktrack(8) that talks about the exported environment
- variables.
- * Now use date +%s to create more randomly named temp directory for installwatch
- This reduces the possibility of conflicting with another user who is
- running slacktrack on the same system.
- * Modified afio.build to demonstrate using ${SLACKTRACKSCRATCHDIR}
- * Modified tf.build to use ${SLACKTRACKSCRATCHDIR} & to prevent it from
- confirming the compile-time settings with the user.
- * Tidy up of the build scripts in the docs dir.
- * slacktrack(8) & slackdtxt(8) release dates now always in sync with
- their respective scripts.
-
-07-May-2003 - v1.08r3
- * Updated a few docs
- * Fixed a comment typo in the slacktrack script
- * Tidy up of 'SlackBuild' script
- * Other misc tidying.
-
-03-May-2003 - v1.08r2
- * If the command line/script provided exits with an error code we now
- display the error code as well as a warning message.
- * Moved slacktrack and slackdtxt to /usr/bin rather than being in
- /usr/sbin. This is because we can use slacktrack with 'fakeroot'
- from the Debian distribution. fakeroot fakes root privileges, thereby
- allowing slacktrack to chown correctly. Therefore we can sensibly
- use slacktrack as user other than root.
-
- To use slacktrack with fakeroot you could do this
- # fakeroot ./trackbuild.fetchmail
-
- less through the resulting package .tgz to verify that the permissions
- are what they ought to be. Obviously there will be some issues with
- using fakeroot but it should be pretty useful for users without root
- access.
- I have packaged up fakeroot and you may download it at
- http://www.slackware.com/~mozes
- I have included by fakeroot build script within slacktrack's source
- ball - slacktrack/misc/fakeroot/
-
-28-Apr-2003 - v1.08
- * Added -N, --strip-prog to allow the user to specify the location
- of the strip binary. This allows me to start cross compiling
- stuff with slacktrack stripping the binaries.
- * Renamed my wrapper scripts from 'SlackBuild' to 'trackbuild' to
- avoid any confusion & updated docs to match.
- * If specifying an alternate package store dir, now suffix the path
- with a /
- * Now reports size of .tgz if a .tgz is built
- * No options are 'Advanced' - they are now just options
- * Added -R, --run-after facility to make slacktrack execute a given
- command prior to running makepkg. The purpose of this is to allow
- the user to specify a program such as mc (Midnight Commander) to
- inspect the package directory contents and possibly make changes
- before slacktrack creates the .tgz
- [] Note: The CWD is changed to the package's root directory before
- the external command is executed. This allows you to specify
- -Rmc and have Midnight Commander load and automatically
- display the root dir of the package.
- * -T wasn't accepting the specified path. Fixed.
- * -g,--chmod644docs also now does chown -R root.root /usr/doc. I am finding
- I need to do this in build scripts a lot so I figured since I'm already
- chmod 644ing I may as well just chown them to root since they always
- are in Slackware packages anyway !
-
-16-Apr-2003 - v1.07
- * Added the facility to gzip info pages & updated slacktrack(8) to match.
- -I, --gzinfo
- -W, --extra-infodir <path>
- -F, --gzinfo-no-symfix
- * Switched @uksolutions email addresses in example build scripts with
- @polplex.co.uk
- * Added two build scripts for GNU VCD Imager into the docs/examples/non-slackware
- directory. There are two scripts:
- vcdimager.build -- this is for use with slacktrack
- vcdimager.SlackBuild -- this is a 'clean' SlackBuild script
- that installs the package into a clean
- dir by doing make DESTDIR
- The purpose of having these two scripts is for anybody who is
- interested in building their own packages; it enables you to
- compare and contrast the differences... or something :)
-
-01-Apr-2003 - v1.06
- * --extra-libdir, --extra-bindir, --extra-mandir added to allow
- the user to specify additional directories that slacktrack should
- consider when stripping binaries and gzipping man pages.
- Note that any binary directories specified by --extra-bindir
- will NOT be chown root.bin
- Suggested by Darren Austin
- * No longer chown root.bin in /usr/local/{sbin,bin}/
- as it's not the Slackware standard to chown root.bin in any dirs other
- than /sbin, /bin, /usr/bin & /usr/sbin
-
-26-Mar-2003 - v1.05
- * Now considers usr/local for man page, binary and .so files after
- Darren Austin gave a convincing argument as to why one may wish to
- use /usr/local
-
-22-Mar-2003 - v1.04-build-2
- * Moved Change Log details into separate file - 'ChangeLog.slacktrack'
- to save cluttering the slacktrack script.
- * Added zlib build script to the list of Slackware example build scripts
- This script downloaded the Slackware bits and also patches in the
- security patch from OpenPKG.
- * Added NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4191 and tinyfuge example slacktrack build scripts
- * Fixed a few typos and grammar problems in the docs
- * Tidied up a few comments & code in the slacktrack script
- - No new features added.
-
-10-Mar-2003 - v1.04
- * Added --stripallexec option to strip any unstripped ELF executable files
- in the entire package directory. This means that slacktrack will find all
- files in non-standard Slackware directories such as /opt.
- * Added 'short' command flags for the advanced options.
-
-02-Mar-2003 - v1.03
- * Make sure we have specified a package name before proceeding
- * Bomb out & tidy up if no files or dirs are found in /var/tmp/slacktrack/TRANSL/
- this saves makepkg building a package of the current directory & it also
- indicates that installwatch failed to track any activity, thus has no files
- to package.
- * Fixed problem with the location of installwatch's log file.
- * Lots of error checks
- * Exit codes now have meaning; read slacktrack(8) man page.
- * If build store dir doesn't exist then change it to /tmp rather than
- creating it without warning.
-
-01-Mar-2003 - v1.02
- * Added --chmod644docs option
- * Renamed SLACKTRACKPSEUDODIR to SLACKTRACKFAKEROOT because it makes more
- sense.
-
-28-Feb-2003 - v1.01
- * Stopped dumping all output to /dev/null when gzipping man pages
- as this doesn't always work
- * Added code to fix broken symlinks caused by gzipping man pages
- Added --gzman-no-symfix command line option to prevent this behaviour
- * Added --chown-bdirs-root-bin & chown-bfiles-root-bin (-e,-f) options
- to chown root.bin the system binaries installed into /usr/bin and so on
- This behaviour is specified in Pat's 'slack-tools' README file.
-
-22-Jan-2002 - v1.00
- * Created