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# Document: ChangeLog.slacktrack
# Purpose : Document the changes that have occurred in 'slacktrack'
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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