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diff --git a/source/d/slacktrack/slacktrack-project/docs/ChangeLog.slacktrack b/source/d/slacktrack/slacktrack-project/docs/ChangeLog.slacktrack new file mode 100644 index 000000000..1d656d175 --- /dev/null +++ b/source/d/slacktrack/slacktrack-project/docs/ChangeLog.slacktrack @@ -0,0 +1,705 @@ +############################################################################## +# 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 |