CheckInstall 1.5.1
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* There's a new checkinstall mailing list! The list address is:
<checkinstall-list@asic-linux.com.mx>
To subscribe, send an empty message to:
<checkinstall-list-subscribe@asic-linux.com.mx>
* A new installwatch version is included, with some patches from Olivier
Fleurigeon. The test program included with installwatch now works again.
* New command line options: "--docdir" and "--nodoc" to control the creation
of the package documentation.
* New command line options: "--provides" and "--maintainer" to specify each
value in the RPM spec file and in the Debian control file, respectively.
CheckInstall 1.5.0
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* CheckInstall is now even more "scriptable", look for the "--pkgxxx" options
in the README.
* The installwatch version (0.6.2) included with this release of checkinstall
fixes a couple of file descriptor leaks that were present in 0.6.1. The
"Too many open files" problem shouldn't appear again. I can no longer
reproduce it with the Emacs21 installation, at least ;-).
* Checkinstall is one year old! Version 1.0 was released on nov/11/200 =)
CheckInstall 1.5.0beta2:
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* About the "invalid option" problem with rpm: the RPM folks have once again
changed their minds about the rpm's argument parsing. In rpm versions < 4.0.0
the right way was "--target <arch>", in 4.0.x with x < 3, it was
"--target=<arch>" and finally in rpm 4.0.x with x >= 3 it is back to
"--target <arch>". CheckInstall now attempts to identify the installed rpm
version and set this flag accordingly. If you have any problems about it,
please send me a mail message telling me the error message and the rpm version
you have installed.
* Check the new PAK_DIR variable in the checkinstallrc file. If set to a
directory name, checkinstall will save there your newly created packages
If the directory doesn't exist, checkinstall will ask you if it should be
created. This should help you to keep all your new packages in one place.
* CheckInstall is now completely "scriptable"! If you give it the "-y"
command line option it will run completely unattended, accepting the
default answer to all questions.
CheckInstall 1.5.0beta1:
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* Debian support is in place! Read the Debian packaging section of the
README file. This is an experimental feature. Please report any bugs or
problems so they can be fixed :).
CheckInstall 1.4.0:
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A long time has passed since the last checkinstall release, thanks to my
final exams and an unusually big load of work. Now I have more free time and
will be working hard to add two important features: tracking of statically
linked binaries and .deb packaging format support. Stay tuned :).
* I modified the installwatch library to make it backup any files modified
by the install command, _before_ they are modified. This is done at the
system call level.
This allows checkinstall to write a tarball including all files that
were overwritten/deleted/etc by the install command -i.e "make install"-,
giving you the chance to return your system to the exact same state it was
before installing your program.
An example: suppose you have installed AfterStep, which by default keeps its
global configuration files under /usr/local/share/afterstep,and you have
customized them to meet your own tastes. Then you download and compile a new
version, and then you install it with "make install" or with "checkinstall".
You restart your afterstep session only to discover that all of your
carefully configured files under /usr/local/share/afterstep have been
overwritten by the installation process and substituted by the standard
dist versions! Well.. that was until the arrival of CheckInstall 1.4 ;-)
CheckInstall 1.4.0 would have saved all of those about-to-be-overwritten
files just before they were modified, and wrote a tarball containing all
of them. So in the example before, you'd just do a:
tar xzvf backup-xxxxx-pre-afterstep-v.v.v.tgz -C /
And you'd get your files back. Nice, isn't it?
Another nice thing is that if you cancel checkinstall at any time, it will
automatically restore any already modified/overwritten files.
The xxxxx in the filename are a timestamp made with the date and time when
the file was created, so you can run checkinstall multiple times and you'll
get incremental-style backups of the modified files.
The new installwatch library (0.6.0) has a lot of applications, I'll talk
about them in installwatch's own documentation.
* CheckInstall now has full command line switches parsing.
Try "checkinstall --help".
* The variable definition section inside the checkinstall script is gone.
Now you should edit the checkinstallrc file, normally installed under
/usr/local/lib/checkinstall
* Added an option ("--exclude") to tell checkinstall wich directories to ignore
while searchig for modified files.
CheckInstall 1.3.2:
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* Security fix for the temp dir, preventing symlink attacks.
* File names with spaces in them are now correctly handled.
CheckInstall 1.3.1:
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* Fix for a bug found when using rpm 4.0, and new features.
* Slackware: If you create a script called "install-pak" inside the source
directory, checkinstall will add it to the new package. The script will
be run every time you install the package with Slackware's installpkg.
This is useful for setting permissions, adding users and setting the system
up after installing that package.
CheckInstall 1.3.0:
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Lots of bug fixes and a couple of changes. Read the Changelog and the README.
CheckInstall 1.3.0beta3:
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The bug that prevented checkinstall from working on your rpm-based distribution
has been fixed -seems fixed, at least!-
So far I've tested v1.3.0beta3 in:
o RedHat 6.2
o Slackware 7.1
RedHat 7.x, SuSe and Mandrake should be OK but I haven't confirmed it. Maybe you
could do that and write me a note to include them on the list ;-).
I've added a DEBUG flag to allow checkinstall to gather some useful info and
pack it in a tarball. Check the variable definition section inside the script.
CheckInstall 1.3.0beta :
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RPM support is now included. See the bottom of the README for details.
This is a beta release, please report bugs and post comments to:
<fsanchez@uagunix.gdl.uag.mx>
CheckInstall 1.2.1 :
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Because of a couple of bugs introduced by checkinstall 1.2, you may have to
check the owner and permissions of /tmp and /var/checkinstalltmp :
/tmp ==> 1777/root:root
/var/checkinstalltmp ==> 0700/root:root
Just to make sure, run:
chmod 1777 /tmp
rm -rf /var/checkinstalltmp
mkdir /var/checkinstalltmp
chmod 0700 /var/checkinstalltmp
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$Id: RELNOTES,v 1.5.1.2 2001/12/22 23:22:27 izto Exp $
