Changes in slackupdate
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0.7.3 08.28.2009
- Compatibility with txz format in Slackware 13.0
- NOT WORKING ON SLACKWARE 64 (Yet) but soon
0.7.2 12.19.2007
- Fixed blacklists for non-privileged users
- Updated server lists
- Fixed minor bug in update system
0.7.1 10.24.2005
- Released Version 0.7.1
- Moved to new server and updated the update-check links.
- Majorly revamped upgrade. No longer uninstalls previous packages
- Fixed RunLevel error with upgrade (Florian Mueller)
- Improved upgrade to work better for slackware-current users
- Upgrade checks against blacklist before adding/removing old packages
0.7.0 02.14.2005
- Released Version 0.7.0
- Better error reporting (Paul Kairis)
- Better way to implement color (Thanks Niklas Volbers)
- Added Support for GPG checking instead of MD5
- Defaults to GPG for file checking if not found will still
check files with MD5
- Added blacklist option for packages that should not be
updated (Thanks Leandro Sagliocco)
- Made color support optional (Thanks Jim Bottino)
- Added support for prozilla (Thanks Matthias Güntert)
- Rewrote the downloading code
- Better verbosity
- Separate -current version updates from the stable updates
0.6.2 03.12.2004
- Slackware current systems no longer required to update using -u
- Upgrade -u option will now do a check for all packages that did not
exist in the previous version of slackware and add package names for
them.
- Lilo reminder for manual updates
- Misc bug fixes
0.6.1 11.11.2003
- /etc/rc.d/*.new renaming works when upgrading
- More info given in verbose mode -v (Thanks Mike Insch)
- Faster match_packages function (Thanks Mike Insch)
- Added upgrade -u support for Slackware 8.1 - current (Experimental)
- 8.1 -> 9.1 (Tested) (manualy update the /etc .new files)
- 9.0 -> 9.1 (Tested) (manualy update the /etc .new files)
- 8.1 -> current (untested)
- 9.0 -> current (untested)
- 9.1 -> current (Tested) (manualy update the /etc .new files)
- sed and utempter upgrades work when upgrading to 9.1
- Added retry -r command line option
- Finally fixed the kernel-modules duplicate problem
- Added color
- Fixed color, should work better with xterms now
- Added warnings for duplicate packages
0.6.0 08.27.2003
- Rewrote the script in Functions (Much cleaner)
- Rewrote many of the functions
- Added Verbosity -v command line option
- Checks for newer versions of slackupdate script
- Bugfixes (downloading now works again)
- Proxy support added (Thanks Sir Ace)
- Added temp directory -o command line option
- Cleaned up check_for_commands (Thanks Andy Bryson)
- Changed default proxy setup
- Added passive option
- Changed the way that the temp directory is cleaned up
- Removed -k option
- Replaced -o (tempdir) with -t (tempdir)
- Added -o (download_dir) be an optional download directory
- Changed default server2 to a non edu only server
- Released 0.6.0
0.5.4 05.21.2003
- Bug fixes
- Script now checks for the existence of all commands necessary to run
- Checks for temp directory permissions
0.5.3 05.07.2003
- Identify which server is being used (Thanks Russ Gritzo)
- Bug fixes
0.5.2 05.07.2003
- Added better compatibility for packages in deep directories
- Added security option to prevent hacked Manifest files from
overwriting or deleting system files.
0.5.1 05.07.2003
- Bug fixes
0.5 05.07.2003
- Added command line options (Thanks Russ Gritzo)
- Script now shows status of already up2date items
0.4 04.22.2003
- Increased the speed of the script
- Other code cleanup
0.3 04.12.2003
- Added Support for Slackware 9.0
- Added Sub Directory support
0.2 03.28.2003
- Added Error functions (Thanks Scott Bartlett)
- Verified the script worked on Slackware 8.1
0.1 01.06.2003
- Initial Test only
- Never Released
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