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diff --git a/source/d/slacktrack/slacktrack-project/docs/ChangeLog.slacktrack b/source/d/slacktrack/slacktrack-project/docs/ChangeLog.slacktrack deleted file mode 100644 index 1d656d17..00000000 --- a/source/d/slacktrack/slacktrack-project/docs/ChangeLog.slacktrack +++ /dev/null @@ -1,705 +0,0 @@ -############################################################################## -# 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 |