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# Document: ChangeLog.altertrack
# Purpose : Document the changes that have occurred in 'altertrack'
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19-Jun-2004 - v1.21(1.21-slacktrack)
     * 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.
     * Use strip -p to preserve dates/time stamps.
     * Fixed a typo in the package info display prior to building the package.

31-May-2004 - v1.12(1.20-slacktrack)
     * Changed chown uid.gid to uid:gid

25-Mar-2004 - v1.11(1.19-slacktrack)
     * 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 - v1.10(1.18-slacktrack)
     * 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.

09-Feb-2004 - v1.09(1.17-slacktrack)
     * Check 'dir.list' file (which contains empty dirs) exists before
       using it to restore root file system's permissions. This avoids
       an error message from cat if the file does not exist.
     * Delete /install even if we specify --notidy
     * Populate the /var/log/packages/$package entry with the file system
       differences rather than the .tgz contents post Slackware-isation.
     * Added --rootdir option so that I can use altertrack to build packages
       for my Slackware ARM port using ScratchBox (http://www.scratchbox.org)
       This option is of limited (or no) use on a real x86/SPARC/ARM Slackware
       sytstem.
     * Added --with-scratchbox option to clean up your root target directory
       after the build script completes.  This avoids getting an empty /dev
       and /home directories included within your package.  These directories
       are required as mount points on the ARM server.
     * Added --froot option.  This launches the fakeroot utility from the current
       $PATH prior to setting the Slackware standards (chown root.bin and so on).
       The purpose of this is so that our .tgz packages will get the required
       root.bin and other root permissions rather than 'build.users' when
       running under Scratchbox.  Of course, this is of little use if the build
       scripts set their own ownerships, but for a generic run of the mill package
       it can be very handy.
       -- Note: For obvious reasons, this option is utterly useless for non-root
                users on a normal x86 Slackware system.  It only makes sense
                to consider this option's use within a simulated environment.
                Because the only simulated environment that this has been tested
                under is Scratchbox, note that the path to libfakeroot is not the
                same as that in slacktrack. --

12-Dec-2003 - v1.08(1.16-slacktrack)
     * Reworded a few messages to make more sense.

04-Dec-2003 - v1.08(1.15-slacktrack)
     * Fixed bug where permissions & ownerships on some dirs were
       not preserved.  This was due to altertrack only storing *empty* dirs
       and therefore, tar had no way of knowing what the permissions should be
       when extracting non-empty dirs into the fake root directory.

24-Nov-2003 - v1.07(1.15-slacktrack)
     * Added /dev/console to the excluded file/dir list

10-Nov-2003 - v1.06(1.15-slacktrack)
     * Delete /install directory after package build.  If this directory
       remains, it may cause problems for other builds as it will contain
       data for another package.

02-Nov-2003 - v1.05(1.15-slacktrack)
     * Fixed bug where empty directories such as placeholders would be
       removed from the package contents.

31-Oct-2003 - v1.04(1.15-slacktrack)
     * Added new -x, --exclude option to allow the user to specify their own
       egrep pattern for file/directory exclusion.  Note that this does not
       affect altertrack's use of 'find'; this exclusion list is only used
       once the differences between the file system have been established.
       The default egrep pattern is:
       /dev/pts$|/dev/pts/|/dev/ptmx|/dev/tty|/var/log|/etc/ld.so.cache|
       /tmp|/root|/proc|/var/tmp|/var/run/utmp
     * altertrack is no more dangerous than protopkg, therefore
       it's now included within the slacktrack binary .tgz archive.

29-Oct-2003 - v1.03(1.15-slacktrack)
     * Included another example ('dvd_libs') in the 'examples-altertrack'
       directory within the main slacktrack source archive.  You can now see
       how I build my DVD libraries using altertrack.  This example build 
       script is cleaner and easier to follow than the cpan_modules example.
     * 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 - v1.02(1.15-slacktrack)
     * 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).
     * Bomb out if /var/log/packages or /var/log/scripts is missing.

19-Oct-2003 - v1.01(1.14-slacktrack)
     * Tidied up code and removed some slacktrack-only code
     * find now prunes the paths to remove /mnt, /tmp, /home and /proc
       as this will speed up the find (especially if you have mounted
       NFS shares or others in /mnt, and anything in /mnt isn't realistically
       going to be in your final package anyway).

16-Oct-2003 - v1.00(1.14-slacktrack)
     * Forked from slacktrack
     * Basic working version.            
