List of user visible changes in the release 1.9.2 -- Improvement * templates/library - Davide Madrisan: Add requirements for pkgconfig. * pck-update - Davide Madrisan: Action 6: The code has been rewritten for better readability. Some bugs have been fixed too. -- Bug fixes * pck-update - Davide Madrisan: Honour `%_specdir' and `%_sourcedir' when checking for syntax errors in the specfiles. This fix building of package containing patches and build in a non standard path. (Problem detected by Silvan Calarco). * autospec.conf - Davide Madrisan: swap %{_libexecdir} and %{_libdir} substitutions in the variable 'format_unpackaged_file_list' to correctly translate files located in '/usr/libexec/...'. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 1.9.1 -- Improvements * pck-update - Davide Madrisan: Display a proper error message when a specfile contains errors. * pck-update - Davide Madrisan: Convert the list of unpackaged files discovered by rpmbuild into a list thah make use of rpm macros (that is, do a /usr/bin --> %{_bindir}, ... (using the new variable `format_unpackaged_file_list' set in autospec.conf) * pck-update - Davide Madrisan: Some code cleanups. -- Update * kde4-flist2rpmvars - Davide Madrisan: Remove this script; it's superseded by the code improvements made in the plugin 'pck-update'. * templates/library - Davide Madrisan: This template has been updated. * po/it/pck-update - Davide Madrisan: Update messages and translations. -- Bug fixes * pck-update - Davide Madrisan: Fix expansion of templates containing '@configure@' or a line starting by '@configure@'. * lib/libspec.lib - Davide Madrisan: Correctly parse lines containing complex 'obsoletes' directives, as shown in the following example: Obsoletes: pck1 <= [,] pck2 > (Bug discovered by Silvan Calarco). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 1.9.0 -- Improvements * templates/kde4 - Davide Madrisan: Minor update. * spec-create - Davide Madrisan: templates/gnome templates/kde3, templates/kde4 templates/library templates/standard, templates/standard-daemon - Davide Madrisan: Add the %debug_package macro. Avoid bashisms in the rpm scriptlets. * libspec.lib - Davide Madrisan: Rework rpmvars.init() in order to support rpm macro expressions. (Feature asked by Silvan Calarco ages ago ...:) Debug output is now more readable. * tests/test01_pkgquality tests/test02_pkgsecurity - Davide Madrisan: - Be less verbose and make output a bit more compact; - rework coloring schema; - write the grand total of the issues detected by each plugin. * tests/test02_pkgsecurity - Davide Madrisan: New test: check for setgid directories. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 1.8.2 -- Improvements * templates/library - Davide Madrisan: Add a missing requirement and some comments to help developers. * templates/kde4 - Davide Madrisan: Minor updates. * Makefile - Davide Madrisan: Provide a 'dist-rpm-install' target to install the autospec rpm packages by a simple 'make dist-rpm-install' command. * BUGS - Davide Madrisan: Remove old stuff. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 1.8.1 - Christmas Release -- Bug fixes * libspec - Silvan Calarco: Quote '%' characters before passing strings to rpm --eval to avoid a segmentation fault error. * pck-update - Silvan Calarco: Escape '<' and '>' characters when printing SPEC_OBSOLETES to infofile to fix a syntax error. -- Improvements * libapse - Silvan Calarco: Improve searching in sourceforge sites. * spec-create, templates - Davide Madrisan: Several improvements and fixes, notably for library packages with a name not starting by 'lib'. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 1.8.0 -- Bug fixes * pck-update - Silvan Calarco: Action 6: Fix automatic build requirements detection with rpm 5. -- Improvements * templates/{perl,standard} - Davide Madrisan: Updated. * templates/standard-daemon - Davide Madrisan: New template for packages providing a system/network service. * lib/libcfg.lib - Davide Madrisan: Support modularized configuration files (`~/.autospec.d/*.conf'). (Based on an idea developed by Stefano Cotta Ramusino.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 1.7.3 -- Bug fixes * templates/{kde4,python} - Davide Madrisan: Fixes. * libspec - Davide Madrisan: Workaround the segmentation fault of "rpm --eval" while parsing an internet address (like rpm --eval 'http://ftp.gnu.org'). (Pointed out by Silvan Calarco) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 1.7.2 -- Bug fixes * spec-create - Davide Madrisan: Fixed expansion of source and license tags. * pck-update - Davide Madrisan: action 1: Display the right installation path for files extracted from a srpm archive. -- Improvements * spec-create - Davide Madrisan: Improvements in the specfiles created for perl archives. * templates/library - Davide Madrisan: Improved template for library packages. -- Updates * Updated Italian translations. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 1.7.1 -- Bug fixes * spec-create - Davide Madrisan: Fixed a regression in the expansion of the macro '@standard_docs@'. * templates/{standard,perl} - Davide Madrisan: Various fixes. -- Updates * spec-create - Davide Madrisan: Updated help message. * spec-create - Davide Madrisan: Add support for jar archives. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 1.7.0 - Christmas Release -- Updates * spec-create - Davide Madrisan: A completely rewritten plugin based on the templates available in the templates directory. * templates/{gnome,kde*,library*,perl,python,standard} - Davide Madrisan: All the template has been reworked to be used by the new spec-create engine. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 1.6.3 -- Updates * libnetwork.lib - Davide Madrisan: Better output in debug mode. * pck-update - Davide Madrisan: New option '--force-download': download the source files even if found in the SOURCE directory. -- Bug fixes * libcfg.cfg - Davide Madrisan Display a correct error message when the user configuration file is not available. -- documentation * italian manpage: Document the new option '--force-download'. Minor updates. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 1.6.2.1 -- Bug fixes * libnetwork.lib - Davide Madrisan Make the backup of old files working again. (thanks to Silvan Calarco for reporting this problem) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 1.6.2 -- Updates * libnetwork.lib - Davide Madrisan New library, formerly known as librepository.lib, contaning also all the functions previously provided by libcurl.lib. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 1.6.1 -- Improvements * pck-update - Davide Madrisan Action 3: download the source file(s) specified in the specfile (instead okf exiting with and error message) when no package version is specified at command line. * pck-update - Davide Madrisan Action 5: display a warning message if "PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE" is set. (required by Stefano Cotta Ramusino) * pck-update, libcurl - Davide Madrisan All the code related to curl has been moved from pck-update to libcurl. Several cosmetic changes were made to remove all the code duplication in pck-update. Now the code appears only once in libcurl :) -- Bug fixes * autospec.conf - Davide Madrisan Fixed and simplified the example for the ftp repository configuration for openmamba. * autospec.conf - Davide Madrisan Update the `patch_name_structure' variable to fix the check of the patches name structure. * pck-update, libcurl - Davide Madrisan The deletion of the old srpm packages works again. -- Updates * librepository.lib - Davide Madrisan Exit with an error message when a curl command doesn't succeed. * pck-update - Davide Madrisan Several improvements in the messages shown while downloading and uploading files (side effect of the moving of all the curl related code to libcurl). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 1.6.0 -- Improvements * autospec.conf - Silvan Calarco, Davide Madrisan New option `srpm_install_options' with default value `--nodeps': by default the srpm packages are now installed without taking care of the missing dependencies (for compatibility with rpm5). * pck-update - Silvan Calarco Compatibility fixes to support rpm 5. Better support with multiarch uploads. The discovery of the default architecture was improved. * pck-update - Silvan Calarco, Davide Madrisan By default do use smart for rpm download and install. Create specfile backups as old files (i.e. prefixed by '.') by default. Two new options (`spec_backup_extension' and `spec_backup_attr' was introduced in autospec.conf to make this behaviour configurable. Better support for `noarch packages'. * autospec.conf, libspec.lib - Davide Madrisan Support 'IEEE' and 'Copyright only' licenses. Support a list of licenses ending with the `, and' separator. Now the licenses set in the subpackages are also scannned while looking for syntax and quality issues in the specfiles. * spec-create - Davide Madrisan Add support for '.lz' and '.7z' compressed archives. * libcurl - Davide Madrisan New library containing all the code related to curl. Available functions are for now: `curl.download()', and `curl.upload()'. * pck-update - Davide Madrisan Extended code reworking to translate previous code into calls to the licurl functions. * Several minor fixes and debug enhancements. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 1.5.0 -- Improvements * pck-update (patch by Silvan Calarco): Speed optimization. * libspec.lib Various speed improvements in the core function 'rpmvars.solve'. * libspec.lib Use rpm preprocessor to solve the variables used in a specfile. Initial patch by Silvan Calarco. Reworked to move all the code into the pck-update plugin and to run the rpm preprocessor only once. * pck-update When it make sense, do use the preprocessed specile instead of the original one when parsing the specfile. -- Bug fixes * libapse.lib (patch by Silvan Calarco): Honour the netlink option ('curl_opts_netlink'). * pck-update (patch by Silvan Calarco): Fix identification of old packages to backup. * pck-update (patch by Silvan Calarco): Reduce severity from error to warning if host command fails as happens using qemu-arm environment. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 1.4.17 -- Bug fixes * pck-update: Honour user defined macros when expanding rpm variables found in the speciles. This problem was noticed by Silvan Calarco when cross-compiling packages via autospec. * pck-update: Use alternative root directory, if provided, for build requirements check. * pck-update: Don't pass alternative root directory to rpmbuild except when running rpmbuild --nobuild to check dependencies. As the dependencies check is done before, it is safe to pass --nodeps to non-simulated build commands. * test01_pkgquality: Skip the `%buildroot' test whether 'rpm_ignores_buildroot' is true in the configuration file. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 1.4.16 -- Improvements * spec-create: Support lzma compressed archives. * templates/python: Automatically build the full list if files * libapse.lib (patch by Stefano Cotta Ramusino: Check for new software at sourceforge.net/sf.net sites. -- Bug fixes * pck-update (patch by Silvan Calarco): Cross-compilation fix. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 1.4.15 -- Improvements * templates/kde4: add update-desktop-database, update-mime-database, and gtk-update-icon-cache calls to rpm scriplets. * pck-update (patch by Silvan Calarco): new option '--root=DIRECTORY': use the file system tree rooted at DIRECTORY for all rpm operations. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 1.4.14 -- Bug fixes * pck-update: fix upload of rpm/srpm packages when 'ftp_rw_port[]' is set in the configuration file * pck-update (patch provided by Silvan Calarco): pass build options and defines to rpmbuild --nobuild to prevent it from failing when it shouldn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 1.4.13 -- Improvements * spec-create: add support for xz compressed archives. -- Bug fixes * spec-create: always end '%post' and '%preun' blocks containing multiple statements with an 'exit 0' command. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 1.4.12 -- Bug fixes * libapse.lib: fix the error message: /usr/share/autospec/lib/libspec.lib: line 1018: [: too many arguments * tools/kde4-flist2rpmvars: do not skip the first file of the list to process. * tools/kde4-flist2rpmvars: correcty handle the '%{_kde4_xdgappsdir}' and '%{_kde4_xdgmimedir}' macros. -- Improvements * spec-create: improved creation of python specfiles. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 1.4.11 -- Bug fixes * libapse.lib (reported by Silvan Calarco): fixed a nasty regression bug introduced in 1.4.9 that prevented libapse from finding lots of software updates while looking on the internet. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 1.4.10 -- Update * templates/python (patch provided by Silvan Calarco): do use %{__python} instead of python in the specfiles of python packages. * templates/python (patch provided by Stefano Cotta Ramusino: autospec-1.4.9-python_opt.patch): do not build the python modules twice. Use the optimization flag `-O1'. -- Bug fixes * pck-update (reported by Stefano Cotta Ramusino): if a description begins with a '%' character, do not pretend that the "`%description' has empty body". ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 1.4.9 -- Update * autospec.conf (data by Stefano Cotta Ramusino): new list of OSI approved licenses. -- Improvements * autospec.conf, libapse.lib (patch provided by Silvan Calarco): improvements in the Autospec Package Search Engine. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 1.4.8 -- Improvements * libapse (patch provided by Silvan Calarco): improved package version detection. * libspec: support debug packages. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 1.4.7 -- Improvements * pck-update (patch provided by Silvan Calarco): integrated the relocate_RPM_dirs patch -- Bug fixes * libspec.lib (apse.scrapeversion()) (patch provided by Silvan Calarco): update the Autospec Package Search Engine for the site * pck-update: fix the update of packages when the package name contains a relative or absoute path. * pck-update: fix the initialisation of the specfile directory when the '-S/--specfile' option is specified. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 1.4.6 -- Bug fixes * autospec.conf (patch provided by Silvan Calarco): updated `apse_grep' and `apse_uri' variables * libspec.lib (apse.scrapeversion()) (patches provided by Silvan Calarco): fix regexpr and code that check for a new version of a given package ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 1.4.5 -- Improvements * pck-update, libapse.lib (patch provided by Silvan Calarco): new option '--pckurlverbatim' in apse.scrapeversion(); added `source0' url based search * libreposirory.lib (repository.get_SRPMS_name(), repository.get_RPMS_name()): new option '-l|--user' (login user) for repositories that require authentication even in readonly mode -- Bug fixes * libspec.lib (apse.scrapeversion()): handle specfiles with no url specified in source0 * libspec.lib (apse.scrapeversion()): fix regexpr used for parsing sourceforge.net pages * libspec.lib (apse.scrapeversion()) (patch provided by Silvan Calarco): fix perl packages scraping * pck-update (action 4): do not always display the warning message `Source[0]': does not point to a valid internet address ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 1.4.4 (Christmas Release!) -- Bug fixes * libspec.lib (specfile.getvars()): support non-standard package names like 'foo2zjs.tar.gz', 'pdf417_enc.4.4.tar.gz', and 'slib3a4.zip' (issue reported by Silvan Calarco) * pck-update (infofile.create()): check the optional specfile path entered by users via command line options (only the path set in the rpm configuration files is supported) * pck-update (action 2): whether a newer version of a package is found on the web, do use this version number instead of the version coded into the specfile; this fixes an issue discovered by Silvan Calarco using the autospec tool while performing multiple actions like '--action 2:4' -- Compatibility issues * pck-update (action 1): do not remove the SRPMS package after download and installation (feature asked by Silvan Calarco) * pck-update (action 2): exit with exit code 4 (instead of error code 1) if the current package is already the latest version (patch by Silvan Calarco) -- Improvements * librepository (repository.get_SRPMS_name()): only download the repository web pages only once per repository (thanks to Silvan Calarco for reporting this problem) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 1.4.3 -- Improvements * spec-create: added support for the 'https' protocol -- Bug fixes * librepository.lib: a more general regular expression is now used in the function 'repository.get_pckname_from_HTML()' (this should fix all the issues recently spotted by Silvan Calarco) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 1.4.2 -- Improvements * libspec.lib: the " <= " syntax in the build requirements is now supported (thanks to Silvan Calarco for reporting the problem) * librepository.lib: new library with the repository/internet related code (as usual it can be used in any third-part scripts) * Now autospec build and run on Ubuntu (tested on Ubuntu 8.04) plus rpm tools (note: alien is not yet supported) -- Bug fixes * pck-update: fixed the 'ftp_alias' support (thanks to Silvan Calarco for the bug report) -- Compatibility issues * Makefile: use "/usr/local" as default prefix instead of "/usr" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 1.4.1 -- Improvements * autospec.spec: subpackages descriptions now have an italian tranlations * tests: the security and quality tests have been moved to external modules; other tests can be added in a simpler way than before * autospec.conf: new variables - 'rpm_install_noinstall_mask' - 'rpm_install_l10n_pck_mask' - 'rpm_install_l10n_pck_allow_lang_mask' used to control which localization/development packages will be installed by the plugin 'pck-update' (feature asked by Silvan Calarco) ex. rpm_install_noinstall_mask='-apidocs-' rpm_install_l10n_pck_mask='-i18n-|-help-' rpm_install_l10n_pck_allow_lang_mask='it' in this example: - the apidocs packages will never by installed - only the localization packages for the italian language will be installed -- Compatibility issues * most plugins and libraries require now bash version 3 or better ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 1.4.0 -- Improvements * libapse: merged two pathes written by Silvan Calarco which increase interoperability with the "autodist" tool written by Silvan Calarco for the openmamba distribution * the localization files are now splitted into separate files (one for each library and plugin, and one for the autospec frontend) -- Compatibility issues * pck-update: make a backup copy of the old specfiles when executing action 1 (srpm download/install) instead of action 4 (specfile update). This seems more useful for developers and for the automatic upgrading tool used in openmamba. Feature asked by Silvan Calarco * autobuild: this tool has been removed because it hasn't been developed and maintained for a long time and it has been now superceeded by `autodist', written by Silvan Calarco for the openmamba distribution ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 1.3.2 -- Improvements * pck-update: merged "autospec-1.2.2-localedir.patch" by Silvan Calarco: this patch improves the detection of locales files performed by autospec * pck-update: implemented aliases for ftp repositories (using the new vector variable 'ftp_alias' in the autospec configuration file). Affects both the options '--server-download' and '--server-upload'. Feature asked by Silvan Calarco. With this configuration lines: ftp_alias[0]="devel" ftp_alias[1]="contrib" you can now select the second repository in the two ways: autospec -u -a0 --server=1 autospec -u -a0 --server=contrib * pck-update: support package names matching the regular expression '-svn-<..>.rpm', like 'peercast-svn20070619-1mamba.src.rpm' ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 1.3.1 -- Bug fixes * autospec: Fixed typo in the help message * pck-update: Fixed a regression in the '--changelog' option (thank to silvan.calarco(a)mambasoft.it for spotting this) * libapse.lib: updated to work again with the renewed sourceforge site (patch by silvan.calarco(a)mambasoft.it) * several minor regressions have been fixed in all the plugins -- Improvements * pck-update: new option "--force-update" (silvan.calarco(a)mambasoft.it) * pck-update: fixed openmamba bug #83 reported by "skiver": remote patches are not automatically downloaded * libapse.lib: exit with return value "3" if a new version of the given package cannot be found (patch by silvan.calarco(a)mambasoft.it) * updated the italian man page and the document `autospec-it-HOWTO' ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 1.3.0 -- Improvements * libspec.lib: display "skipped" also for remote files already found in the local disk (that is previously downloaded) * all the plugins can be now executed directly. The autospec frontend is not necessary any more (it can be replaced by a graphical one, for instance;-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 1.2.2 -- Improvements * pck-update, action 5: speed up installation of missing build requirements ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 1.2.1 -- Improvements * pck-extract: preserve timestamps when extracting files from a srpm archive -- Bug fixes * libspec.lib: support specfiles with licenses containing one or more spaces (thanks to silvan for reporting this issue) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 1.2.0 -- Bug fixes * pck-update: a minor fix related to the 'proxy_user' variable -- Improvements * templates: created the following specfile templates templates/gnome templates/kde3 templates/kde4 templates/library templates/librarytool templates/perl templates/python templates/standard * libapse.lib: new functions 'getnamefromtarball()' 'getversionfromtarbal()' ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 1.1.9 -- Changes * autospec, italian man page: updated copyleft message * pck-update, action 6: committed patches by Silvan Calarco ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 1.1.8 -- Changes * pck-update - action 11: fixed an issue related to the recent rpm version upgrade ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 1.1.7 -- Changes * autospec.conf: new variables `rpm_macro_cmake' and `rpm_macro_makeinstall_cmake' * spec-create: support the cmake building technology ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 1.1.6 -- Changes * libspec.lib: various changes (see ChangeLog for details) to support `Name's using variables, that is matching the following regexpr: "string0%{?varname:%varname-string1-}string2" (feature asked by Silvan Calarco) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 1.1.5 -- Changes * configuration data moved from libapse.lib to the configuration file (patch by Stefano Cotta Ramusino, aka whitone) -- Bug fixes * fixed a bug introduced by the 1.1.4 update (thanks to whitone for reporting this issue and providing a patch) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 1.1.4 -- Changes * libapse.lib: `apse.scrapeversion' updated to the latest version (patch from Stefano Cotta Ramusino, the main author) * autospec.conf: fixed some typos in the comment lines ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 1.1.3 -- Changes * libapse.lib: `apse.scrapeversion' returns the following exit codes: 0 : package is already the latest version 1 : a package with newer version is already installed 2 : a new version is available -- Bug fixes * autospec.conf: added "Graphical Desktop/Applications/Security" to `rpm_allowed_groups' * pck-update, action 4: do not strip out all the make commands but the last one in specfiles containing multiple occurrences of `make' in their %build sections, when autoformatting is enabled * pck-update, action 6: do not be too clever, if the specfile is newer than the rpm and/or srpm packages just print a warning message ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 1.1.2 -- Bug fixes * libspec.lib: fixed two minor issues with tarballs with the name matching the `_' scheme * config-getvar (autospec --eval): fixed queries results * autospec.conf: updated `format_extra_rules' to automatically upgrade old perl specfiles to the new scheme used in qilinux/openmamba distributions, if the option `-f' is used * configuration file: the `format_description_width' variable is now set to `0' by default (unlimited length for description lines) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 1.1.1 -- Changes * pck-update, action 6: merged changes made by silvan.calarco(a)mambasoft.it ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 1.1.0 -- Changes * pck-update, action 6: merged the `find_buildrequirements' script written by silvan.calarco(a)mambasoft.it -- Bug fixes * spec-create: fixed a regression bug introduced in version 1.0.2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 1.0.2 -- Changes * Updated and improved italian man page * spec-create: better support for perl modules using the more recent `Module::Build' building, testing, and installing system * spec-create: improved support for perl modules creation * pck-update, action 8: added a new test for checking whether a package with no binary (elf) files has the BuildArch tag set to `noarch' -- Bug fixes * pck-update, action 5: if the rpm packages are rebuilt force the repackaging of the srpm package too ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 1.0.1 -- Bug fixes * pck-update: use a better regexpr (in `repository.get_RPMS_name/()') when parsing the list of files found in a given repository reached trough a proxy server * support for kde4 libraries (see autospec.conf) * updated autospec-it-HOWTO (formerly known as `rpm4QiLinux-it-HOWTO') ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 1.0 After three years of work I am very happy to announce this milestone release of autospec! -- Changes * tbz2 file archives (file archive compressed with both .TAR and .BZ2 compression) are now supported (a most peculiar extension indeed) * pck-extract, spec-create: allow execution of these plugins by root even if the configuration file `/root/.autospec' doesn't exist ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 0.9.99 -- Bug fixes * pck-update: fixed some issues related to the changes in the openmamba website * configuration file: modified the default settings for `ftp_rw_server', ftp_rw_rpms_dir', and `ftp_rw_srpms_dir' according to the new openmamba web infrastructure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 0.9.98 -- Bug fixes * pck-update, action 10: do not display usernames and passwords in the debug messages * pck-update, action 0,10: url redirection is now supported when scanning for rpm and srpms packages at http urls * pck-update, action 10: the backup of old packages should now work again * pck-update: the variable `curl_opts_netlink' can now be set in the user configuration file to tune connection timeout and number of retries when downloading files ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 0.9.97 -- Changes * configuration file: the list of the approved licenses has been updated -- Bug fixes * honour command line LANG setting * pck-update, action 10: more general approach when creating the urls where the packages will be uploaded in order to support the url scheme used by openmamba -- Compatibility issues * The syntax of the values of the configuration variables `ftpurl_ro_rpms' and `ftp_rw_rpms_dir' has been modified to permit a different setup of the architectures supported in the repositories. Here an example: ftpurl_ro_rpms[1]="http://www.openmamba.org/pub/openmamba/devel-contrib/RPMS.@arch@" ftp_rw_rpms_dir[1]="/RPMS.@arch@" arch_list[1]="i586" arch_noarch_upload[1]="${arch_list[1]}" The string `@arch@' in the repository `n' means: every architecture listed in `arch_list[n]'. arch_list @arch ----------------------------- "i586 ppc arm x86_64" "i586", "ppc", "arm", "x86_64" "i586" "i586" See the global configuration file for details. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 0.9.96 -- Changes * configuration file: the list of the approved licenses has been updated * pck-update, action 2: `sourceforge.net' is now also scanned while finding for available packages over the web -- Bug fixes * configuration file: do really support openmamba in the default settings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 0.9.95 -- Changes * configuration file: default setting modified to support openmamba * update, action 4: support the upgrade of packages when switching between two different linux distribution ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 0.9.94 -- Improvements * update, action 8: check for desktop files installed in /usr/share/applnk/ (a non-standard location used by kde in the old times) -- Bug fixes * update, action 4: fixed some minor bugs (see ChangeLog for details) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 0.9.93 -- Improvements * libspec: now it's possible to force the download of a source file, even if a local copy (can be corrupted) has been detected -- Bug fixes * libspec: do not dowload a remote file if a local copy is found * update, action 4: fixed code used to append multiline changelog entries in the specfiles; was affected by a strange bug apparently caused by a bash upgrade -- Other changes * configuration file: by default the variable `python_module_name_structure is now unset. The python packages do not need now a mandatory `python-' prefix in their names; the original names can be used. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 0.9.92 -- Improvements * update, action 0: added support for http repositories -- Bug fixes * this release contain several code cleanups and some minor bug fixes especially in the main script ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 0.9.91 -- Improvements * update, action 5: do not check for uninstalled build requirements and source files if nor the srpm not the rpm packages need to be built -- Bug fixes * libspec: fixed expansion of define directives found in a specfile that refer to other define directives ex. %define gnomever %(echo `rpm -q --queryformat '%{VERSION}' libglib`) %define gnomemajver %(echo %gnomever | cut -d. -f 1-2) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 0.9.90 -- Improvements * update, action 10: the code used to upload packages has been reworked to be more robust and easier to debug -- Bug fixes * this release contains several bug fixes related to network connections trough a proxy server ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 0.9.15 -- Improvements * autospec.conf: the new option `--proxy' and `proxy_user' are available so now it's possibile to use autospec trough a proxy server * almost all the modules have been updated to support connections trough a proxy server * update, action 2: integrated the package engine search code developed by Stefano Cotta aka whitone (stefano.cotta(a)qilinux.it); now autospec can automatically search for updates! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 0.9.14 -- Improvements * update, action 4: the test that checks for the presence of the install/uninstall code for info pages has been improved, at least for LSB compliant systems (thanks to "whitone" (stefano.cotta(a)qilinux.it) for providing a patch) * spec-create: the uncompress utility is not required now; an error message is printed if a .Z file is found and the uncomress utility is not installed * autospec: the new option `--ignore-test' is available so now it's possibile to tell autospec to skip a given list of tests -- Bug fixes * several portability fixes (tested on OpenSuSE 10.[0,1]) * the `packager_group' variable can be now unset (some distros do not have such a group) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 0.9.13 -- Improvements * update, action 0: when listing the available versions of a given package found in the repositories, the server number is now also displayed * new option '-T/--target' available in the `autobuild' plugin -- Bug fixes * minor fixes and documentation updates * a bunch of bug fixes and enhancements in the `autobuild' plugin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 0.9.12 -- Improvements * update, action 1: if `force_install' is set by user the srpm file is downloaded and installed even if a local srpm has been detected * update, action 3: redirect is now supported by default by autospec when downloading files from remote ftp servers * specfiles with conditional expressions with one operand, like %if "%{?stage1}" are now supported (libspec.lib were extended to support them) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 0.9.11 -- Improvements * new option `--force-build' to force the rebuild of rpm(s) and srpm packages detected on the local harddisk * new option `--force-install' to force the installation of the rpm packages even if rpm complains for errors * the previous (ambiguous) option `--force' is now a shortcut that can be used to enable both these options * new options `--server-download' to select a server from where to download the srpm packages * new option `--server-upload' to select a server where to upload packages * the previous (ambiguous) option `--server' can now be used to select a server to be used for both download and upload * autobuild plugin updated and improved * the help message displayed when the user configuration file for autospec is not found has been improved * update, action 5: if a source file cannot be found in the source directory autospec now try to download it before starting the build process (feature suggested by ) * if one or more lines in a specfile must be ignored by autospec, a command block 'AUTOSPEC-OFF' - 'AUTOSPEC-ON' can now be used; an example follows ## *AUTOSPEC-OFF* Obsoletes: %{name}-tools ## *AUTOSPEC-ON* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 0.9.10 -- Improvements * new plugin autobuild for batch processing: this plugin can parse text files written with a specific syntax and execute shell commands, build, upgrade, install, and upload rpm and srpm packages -- Bug fixes * minor fixes in the update and extract plugins (see the Changelog file for details) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 0.9.9 -- Improvements * no improvements: this release only fix a few bugs discovered in the update plugin (see the ChangeLog file for details) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 0.9.8 -- Improvements * update, action 5: the rpm and srpm packages are not built if they are found on the local disk; to force the rebuild of such packages, the `--force' option can be used ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 0.9.7 -- Improvements * update, action 11: the new option `--force' can be used now to force the installation of the rpm packages (the rpm command used by autospec is user configurable by editing the new configration variable `rpm_install_force') * any trailing ".spec" string found in the package name entered by user is stripped out to avoid a potentially frequent and boring error message -- Bug fixes * update, action 10: fixed some typo and sintax errors; the `--server' option should now always work as expected ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 0.9.6 -- Improvements * patches compressed with the gzip tool (*.{diff|patch}.gzip) are now automatically decompressed by the pck-update plugin * update, action 0: the given srpm package is now searched in all the configured repositories (the searching process do not stops at the first match) so it is possible to know if a packages has been updated to several different repositories, like public and commercial ones, with the same or different version and/or release -- Bug fixes * update, action 10: packages backup/cleanup is now performed correctly even when the `--server' option is specified by user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 0.9.5 -- Improvements * The pck-update plugin now supports specfiles with source0 unset This is a feature needed when updating some very unusual packages ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 0.9.4 -- Improvements * no improvements, just small bugfixes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 0.9.3 -- Improvements * spec-create plugin: several minor fixss (especially when creating specfiles for perl modules) and a few updates to use the new features provided by rpm 4.4.4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 0.9.2 -- Improvements * The pck-extract plugin now automatically decompress the patch compressed with the bzip2 tool. Source files can now be remote URLs (will be automatically downloaded) * The pck-update plugin now also supports release numbers in the format `[0-9]*.[0-9]*' ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 0.9.1 -- Improvements * New option `--server' used by the `pck-update' module to permit users to force the selection of a single repository where to look for available srpm files and where to upload new or updated packages. This feature will permit developers to manage a (configurable) set of ftp repositories where srpm packages could be even duplicated, with the same or a different version and/or release number. * Autospec now exit with an error message if the configuration file `~/.autospec' is not found or not readable by the user running autospec. * When a specfile is generated by autospec, the value for `Source:' has now all the occurrences of the version number substituded by the string `%{version}'. * rpm4QiLinux-it-HOWTO: an example of a working configuration file to put in the home directory of any QiLinux contributors has been added. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 0.9.0 -- Compatibility issues * The configuration variables used during the uploading process have been slightly modified and some variables have been added to enhance this feature (see below). All the compatibility problems should have been addressed with warning and error messages. -- Improvements * Autospec now supports a set of repositories where the packages can be uploaded. By default new packages are uploaded to the server where an old copy of the SRPMS package is found. If no old packages exist, a default server is choosen by autospec, looking at the new configuration variable `ftp_rw_server_num_default'. Its value is the zero-based index pointing to the list of available servers `ftp_rw_server'. The backup of any old package, is now performed using the directory saved in the configuration variable `ftpdir_rw_old[i]' where `i' is the zero-based index of the ftp server where the old packages have been found. If `ftpdir_rw_old[i]' is not set (or set to ""), the old packages are just removed, as usual. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 0.8.9 -- Improvements * update, action 4: new test to check if all the licenses listed in the `License' entry in the specfile are approved licenses (patch by "whitone") * update, action 4: added two short messages if test 8 or 9 fail to help users * autospec: the `--eval' command now supports all the configuration variable typologies (notably the multiline vectors) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 0.8.8 -- Improvements * update, action 5: now supports both the options `--norpm' and `--nosrpm' * update, action 5: user defined values set via the `--define' command are now passed to rpm when building a specfile * update, action 6: has been obsoleted * the rpm4QiLinux-it-HOWTO document has been updated ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 0.8.7 -- Improvements * specfile creation: the `-s' option now also supports URLs; in this case the package is dowloaded and the URL used to set the `Source' entry in the specfile ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 0.8.6 -- Improvements * autospec is now fully UTF-8 compliant * update, action 4: the test for info pages installation/removal has been enhanced, so no false positive errors should be generated now * created italian manpage for autospec ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 0.8.5 -- Improvements * libspec.lib: specfile.getvars: new query `SPEC_LICENSE' (patch submitted by whitone) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 0.8.4 -- Improvements * update, action 4: added a check to see if the `Group' entry specified in the spefile is a known one, according to the (new) configuration variable `rpm_allowed_groups' * libspec.lib: specfile.getvars: new query `SPEC_GROUP' ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 0.8.3 -- Compatibility issues * update: the code from action 2 has been moved at the top of action 4 to give room for future implementations (action 2 does nothing usefull now) -- Improvements * checks for needed tools customized and moved at the top of each plugin body to permit users to view help instructions, check configuration files and execute some plugins even if not all the system tools required by autospec are available * update, action 4: strict specfile sintax checks are performed before updating the specfile ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 0.8.2 -- Improvements * autospec: the `--eval' command can now be executed in quiet mode (`-q' option) * libspec.lib: specfile.getvars(): query `SPEC_URL' now available nested conditional blocks (%if ... %else ... %endif) in the specfiles are now supported * update: new modifier `--norpm' for action `5' to only create the srpm package ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 0.8.1 -- Improvements * update: new action `11' to install the rpm files created by a given package * libspec.lib: specfile.getvars(): query `SPEC_BUILDREQUIRES' now available rpmvars.solve(): rpm variables are now expanded example: rpmvars.solve("%{__install_info}" mbrowse.spec) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 0.8.0 -- Improvements * part of code has been moved to shell shared libraries (`libspec.lib' and `libmsgmng.lib' for now) that can be loaded by external scripts to use the feature of the autospec program; execute the commands . /usr/share/autospec/lib/libspec.lib EXIT_FUNC=return specfile.getvars --help for a short help message * installation of build requirements moved to action 5 (build section) * update, action 4: new option `--changelog' to set a user defined changelog entry (multiline entries are allowed, using eol ('\n') characters) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 0.7.3 -- Improvements * `BuildArch' entries in the specfile are parsed and (the last) used as target architecture * generation of specfile for perl modules updated ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 0.7.2 -- Improvements * update, action 2: new test to check if the macro `%find_lang' is used when localization files are detected * update, action 4 now install all the declared build requirements if `rpm_download_and_install' is defined in the configuration file (default value for `rpm_download_and_install': "sudo -y apt-get install") -- Bug fixes * rpm variables with prefix `?' (like `%{?_smp_mflags}"') should now be fully supported in all the specfile contexts ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 0.7.1 -- Improvements * specfile tests (update, action 2 ) improved ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of user visible changes in the release 0.7.0 -- Compatibility issues * the configuration variables `ftpdir_rw_rpms' and `ftpdir_rw_srpms' are now vectors and their entries MUST be ordered in the SAME WAY as in `ftpurl_ro_rpms[]' and `ftpurl_ro_srpms[]' default value (setup for QiLinux contributors) ftpurl_ro_rpms[0]="ftp://ftp.qilinux.it:21/pub/QiLinux/devel/RPMS" ftpurl_ro_rpms[1]="ftp://ftp.qilinux.it:21/pub/QiLinux/devel-contrib/RPMS" ftpurl_ro_srpms[0]="ftp://ftp.qilinux.it:21/pub/QiLinux/devel/SRPMS" ftpurl_ro_srpms[1]="ftp://ftp.qilinux.it:21/pub/QiLinux/devel-contrib/SRPMS" ftpdir_rw_rpms[0]="" ftpdir_rw_rpms[1]="/devel-contrib/RPMS" ftpdir_rw_srpms[0]="" ftpdir_rw_srpms[1]="/devel-contrib/SRPMS" * update, action 2 now checks for sintax errors/non-standard stuff in the given specfile (this check was part of action 4) -- Improvements * added support for multiple architectures, configurable via the `arch_list' vector in the configuration file (default value: ("i586" "ppc")) * upload of noarch packages configurable via the `arch_noarch_upload' vector; the noarch packages will be uploaded in the subfolder(s) specified by this variable (default value: ("i586" "ppc")) * new options `--nosrpm', `--norpm' for --update (action 10 only) * rpm variables with prefix `?' (like `%{?_smp_mflags}"') are now supported * %if statements using boolean expressions involving strings are now supported %if "%{?cross_target_cpu}" != "" ... * backup/cleanup of old packages found in the ftp repositories now also take care of the `Obsoletes' tags * tests performance (--update --action 8) dramatically improved * new shell script `extract-specs' usefull to extract specfiles from srpms archives with no use of temporary files * the command `-S|--specfile' accepts now a specfile name with path -- Bug fixes * void strings in user definitions (like `--define cross_target_cpu=""') are now allowed * the `--eval' option now works correctly when invoked with vectors * several minor bugfixes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------