RELEASE NOTES: 0.483  2006-02-18
Summary (0.474 -> 0.483):
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Fixed a tar header name split problem in 'swpackage'.
Fixed use of 'distribution_*_directory' extended options
in swinstall and swcopy.  Fixed abnormal termination code
paths in swinstall to avoid leaving stranded processes.
Added preliminary support for software selections and
arch compatibility checks.  Fixes for the CYGWIN platform
were made which consisted of sleep() calls to slow down busy
wait loops.

RELEASE NOTES: 0.474  2005-11-05
Summary (0.463 -> 0.474):
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A problem with Explicit file definitions in a PSF when
using the "-t d" was fixed.  A long standing mis-use of
vsnprintf was fixed which fixed a segfault on a ppc64
GNU/Linux platform.  There were documentation and example
file updates.  swpackage was optimized and now 20% faster
for large packages.

RELEASE NOTES: 0.464  2005-09-26
Summary (0.446 -> 0.464):
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Fixes were made to swpackage and its explict file 
definition processing for definitions without a source
file.  Fixes and changes were made to code sections used
during RPM translation.  Fixes were made to the
documentation.  Development and code cleanups begun
in several new areas.


RELEASE NOTES: 0.456  2005-05-21
Summary (0.446 -> 0.456):
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Portability fixes were made to the build system.
For swpackage, file descriptor availability is now
verfied to prevent possible circumvention of file
descriptor leak checks that were already in place.


RELEASE NOTES: 0.446  2005-05-08
Summary (0.420 -> 0.446):
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For swinstall, support was added for post, pre and check
install control script execution.  Fileset state transition
as well as script exit status recording is now implemented.
For swpackage, the ustar format is changed to be identical to
GNU tar 1.15.1.  Improvements to RPM translation were made,
including support for configuration file preservation.


RELEASE NOTES: 0.426  2004-12-23
Summary (0.420 -> 0.426):
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Added a tar verbose listing to swpackage and swinstall, and
an extra verbose listing that shows the owner id and owner
name.  Fixed  the system database uid/gid and owner/group
name lookup mechanism which improves the sanity of PSF's
which specify owners/groups that are not present on the
packaging host.  In swpackage, fixed the lack of exec bit
for directories included by a recursive file extended definition.


RELEASE NOTES: 0.420  2004-11-14
Summary (0.415 -> 0.420):
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Improvenments to swpackage's handling of duplicate
file definitions in a PSF.  Fixed a use of uninitialized
pointer which will either be harmless or cause an internal 
error hard exit.  Fixed swinstall's warning messages when
comparing file stats in the the INFO file to the storage
archive file stats.


RELEASE NOTES: 0.415  2004-10-27
Summary (0.411 -> 0.415):
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Improvenments to swpackage's handling of duplicate
file definitions in a PSF.  RPM translation was fixed
which was broken in version 0.410.


RELEASE NOTES: 0.411  2004-10-04
Summary (0.405.1 -> 0.411):
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The swpackage exclude keyword processing was fixed.
Minor fixes to swinstall were made.  swverify's
exit status when checking installed software was fixed.
Setting extendeded options on the command line
was fixed for swcopy and swinstall.  A texinfo manual
was created.

RELEASE NOTES: 0.405.1  2004-06-23
Summary (0.405 -> 0.405.1):
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Fixed swverify(8) option processing.


RELEASE NOTES: 0.405  2004-06-17
Summary (0.371 -> 0.405):
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A swinstall core dump was fixed.
Swbis' RPM installation/translation support is now built-in
by the inclusion of rpmlib, derived from rpm-3.0.5 (RH-6.2).
Swinstall is now more usable, although control script
execution is *still* not done.  Fixes were made to swpackage
and swinstall for user/group names not in the system database,
and for pathnames with non-ascii chars.  Swinstall now works with
HP-UX depot packages.  Swinstall now imposes the file meta-data
from the INFO [per spec].  Swinstall and RPM translation has been
tested on Sparc/SunOS, x86/NetBSD, and many Linux versions.  These
fixes produce 100% success rate for translating/installing RPMs
from RH8.0 (although the postinst and preinst scrripts are not yet
run) and other vendor's RPMs appear to work as well.


RELEASE NOTES: 0.370  2004-05-23
swbis-0.370.tar.gz 72d6d93f3014a17eed3418d011355489
Summary (0.344 -> 0.370):
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Swinstall is now more usable, although control script
execution is *still* not done.  Minor fixes to swpackage.
RPM translation was improved and integrated into swinstall
and swcopy.  swinstall should be considered _alpha_,
however, with implementation of INFO file meta-data checks,
file md5 checks, and direct comparison of RPM and
swinstall installs possible as a test, a measure of
correctness can be demonstrated for swinstall. 

RELEASE NOTES: 0.343  2004-04-22 
Summary:
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Several bugs in swpackage related to hard link handling were
fixed.  Enhancements and fixes to swpackage and swign were
made to support regression tests that check the output equality
with GNU tar.  Increased file resource limit inside swpackage.
Implemented instance_id in swpackage generation per spec.


RELEASE NOTES: 0.329  2004-04-09
Summary:
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Several bugs and deficiencies related to swpackage's processing
of extended definitions were fixed.  Logging was implemented
in swcopy and swinstall.  swinstall development.  Minor fixes
all around.  swinstall remains in _alpha_ release state.

RELEASE NOTES: 0.314  2004-02-22
Summary:
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Changed the form of the installed software catalog so that
gpg(1) can be used directly to verify an installed signed
package.  The '-r' swinstall option is now implemented.
The -t type option of an explicit file extended definition
in a PSF file was fixed.


RELEASE NOTES: 0.308  2004-02-17
Summary:
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Fixes to the INDEX file parser and to swinstall.


RELEASE NOTES: 0.307  2004-02-15
Summary:
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swinstall(8) is now usable at an alpha release level.
Control script execution for swinstall is not yet implemented.
Minor fixes to swpackage were made.  There were changes to the
RPM conversion policy relating to attribute mapping.  swverify(8)
now supports (limited) verification of installed software meta-data.

Copyright (C) 2006 Jim Lowe
