[Slapt-get-user] slapt-get 0.9.7

Jason Woodward slapt-get-user@software.jaos.org
Mon, 03 Nov 2003 11:51:51 -0500


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This release focuses on delivering dependency resolution via the slack-required meta file
within each package (See FAQ [http://software.jaos.org/BUILD/slapt-get/FAQ]). i18n support via
gettext [http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/gettext.html] is also finally available.

New features:

    * Dependency support for installing, upgrading, and removing packages. This data is gleaned
from a PACKAGES.TXT file built from a script that looks at the contents of
./install/slack-required. Dep tracking is recursive. Some packagers at Linuxpackages.net
already support this feature. Ask your favorite packager to include this data as well. Dep data
will show up within the --show {pkgname} output. Any failure to resolve dependencies places the
package into the exclude list for the current transaction, along with a report on the dep
failure. Packages without dep data are simply processed as usual.
    * EXCLUDE in slapt-getrc now supports POSIX and extended regex (see example.slapt-getrc or
README/FAQ)
    * added gettext support for easy translation/i18n support. Translations needed!
    * --list, --show, and --search output now reports on installed status of pkg 

Bug fixes:

    * --list now shows pkg_name-pkg_vesion [installed status] : pkg_description
    * make pkg now gzip's the manpage and strips the binary (thanks Jim)
    * exit on unknown command line switch instead of barking usage info and going on
    * updated documentation, faq concerning proxies
    * misc code updates 

Files and documentation available at http://software.jaos.org/.


Take care,
jason

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Jason Woodward
woodwardj@jaos.org

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