GNU swbis NEWS Noteworthy changes. Jul 2023 (2023-07) version 1.13.3 - Jim Lowe, 2023-07-01 NEW FIXES: * Building, compilation - fix errors related to use of extern that show up with newer GCC compilers - Fix sysmacros.h issue again, use correct name version 1.13.2 - Jim Lowe, 2020-03-10 * - Now add "state available" attribute to the fileset * Building, compilation - Fix conditional inclusion for sys/sysmacros.h version 1.13.1 - Jim Lowe, 2018-11-03 NEW FIXES: * - fixed coredump (segfault) when processing PSFs having an attribute value with a length larger than 99999 bytes (e.g. happens when translating some Linux kernel RPMs). * - reorder options in the invocation of GNU tar (to support latest version). NEW FEATURES: * - added support for translating Debian packages (deb format) that use xz compression internally. * - added option to exclude system directories from a package (for use when translating Deb format packages). version 1.13 - Jim Lowe, 2016-05-14 * Minor fixes, see ./ChangeLog version 1.12 - Jim Lowe, 2014-08-02 NEW FEATURES: * pax extended headers are now supported for name and file attributes too long for traditional tar. * The '-H pax' option of GNU tar is specified for all uses of the system tar utility. A runtime check is made to support generic tar as much as possible. * Now multiple signatures are supported both in a package archive and in installed software. * 'swpackage' now has capability to resign, add and delete signatures of a previously signed package. NEW FIXES, among many others (See ./ChangeLog). * A rare hang when accessing the installed software catalog is probably fixed. * Now the package catalog is not decoded if the package signature fails. * Fixed hang on non-Linux kernels. * Added a new feature to verify prelink'ed binaries using prelink(8) on systems that use prelink. * Added new reporting form (--report-format=FORM) that very similar to rpm's output format for verification. * FIXED operation with mksh or pdksh as the shell command * FIXED support for catalog at location outside installed root dir. The starting current working directory for control scripts is now SW_ROOT * (rpm translation> Fixed support of RPMTAG_DEFAULTPREFIX. * (deb translation) Added support for xz compressed archives. * (rpm translation> Many corner cases in RPM translation are now fixed. Translation, installation, and cross verification have been tested on many hundreds of packages (on CentOS release 6.5) version 1.11 - Jim Lowe, 2011-04-23 * : FIXED a race condition resulting in a signing failure * : FIXED segfault when translating some .deb file * : added support .lzma compressed data files in a .deb file version 1.10 - Jim Lowe, 2011-04-15 * : FIXED the translation mode busted in the 1.9 release. version 1.9 - Jim Lowe, 2011-01-20 * : FIXED the to-stdout mode 'swinstall @-' version 1.8 - Jim Lowe, 2011-01-16 Fixed defects in the error code paths of all the utilities that occur when file system permissions deny success to an installed catalog operation. Re-wrote (and fixed) the synct_* routines used for reading installed catalog data with an in-band EOF. These routines could fail due to certain data contents. version 1.7 - Jim Lowe, 2010-12-18 * : FIXED a broken speed optimization * : FIXED crashes due to use of unsupported features. * : Improved compatibility with systems that have neither GNU tar nor pax. * FIXED several long standing bugs affecting all utilities except swpackage. version 1.6 - Jim Lowe, 2010-09-08 * All utilities fixed to operate on relative path target (such as the login landing directory of a remote target). * : added features. support -v mode more support for lising attributes * : FIXED swinstall preview mode for non-existent target directory * : FIXED preview ''swinstall -p'' deleting catalog entry. * : ADDED checks for existing files. --replacefiles and --keepfiles option added * : ADDED implements the extended option -x follow_symlinks=true * : FIXED uid/gid handling for case of `-o owner,' in a explicit file definition in a PSF. Now, finally, hopefully full arbitrary specification of uids and unames now work version 1.5 - Jim Lowe, 2010-03-15 * : Now has a verification summary for installed software. * the utilities now support an absolute path location for the installed software catalog that is outside the target path. This is specified by the file URL syntax: file:///absolute/path/name * : swconfig is completed and enters Beta testing. * : Improvements to the ''exclude'' directive in a PSF file * Many other fixes version 1.4 - Jim Lowe, 2009-07-06 * Added swpackage --regfiles-only option * Fixed specification of extended options on the command line. * Added support for decrypting/encrypting via gpg command * Added support for LZMA compression. * Fixed Now software_definitions in a PSF are properly merged. * Fixed Now the contents of ./conffiles in .deb format package are used to set the 'is_volatile' attribute. version 1.3 - Jim Lowe, 2009-03-11 * Fixed * Fixed Now permissions and ownerships of all created files are determined from values of of the installed_software_catalog version 1.2 - Jim Lowe, 2008-11-22 * Fixed Fixed false verification failure of installed software due to broken detection of file digests in the INFO file. * New Feature Volatile files detected when translating slackware runtime packages. swverify * Fixed Now file attributes explicitly set in a PSF file definition are properly preserved and merged. Duplicate file definitions in a PSF are properly merged. * New option --dereference and --ignore-slack-install options added for swverify * New option --justdb added for swinstall and swremove * New option --justdb added for swinstall and swremove * New Default Now the --pump-delay for swinstall (a bug work-around) is zero (disabled) by default. * New Feature Now the owners and permissions of the installed software catalog (usually /var/lib/swbis/catalog/) are used for new file creation in the catalog. This will allow non-root access policy if desired. version 1.1 - Jim Lowe, 2008-10-26 * Fixed false report of files missing for installed software verification for some packages. * added - swverify --system-info=NAME option * added - swverify --catalog-info=NAME option * Fixed compiler warnings when using gcc version >4.x version 1.0 - Jim Lowe, 2008-10-08 * New capability: swinstall now correctly supports the checkinstall script and deselects with side-effects based on the scripts status. * New capability: all utilties: now all the distributed utilites will auto-detect the POSIX shell and a tar reading utility. This eliminates knowing about the remote hosts' provisioning. * New capability: swverify now verifies installed software * New capability: swpackage will now translate slackware binary packages swpackage will now translate .deb format packages RELEASE NOTES: 0.598 2007-05-12 Summary (0.499 -> 0.598): ------------------------- This release adds large file support to swpackage, and a functional swlist program that supports installed software catalog queries. swinstall development was advanced to include required installed catalog tests for reinstall, downdate, and prerequisites. All of the utilities were improved with a safer and new remote script execution architecture. sha512 digests of the archive and individual files are now supported. 2007-08-30 James Lowe, Jr. * swremove utility is now funtional 2007-06-30 James Lowe, Jr. * License changed to GPL version 3 2007-06-13 James Lowe, Jr. * work begun on swremove 2007-06-01 James Lowe, Jr. * swinstall now supports dependency checks and detects and uses the correct catalog instance for supporting multiple instances of the same package at different locations. 2007-04-28 James Lowe, Jr. * swinstall now supports downdate, and reinstall detection. 2007-02-04 James Lowe, Jr. * swlist now supports a defacto ad-hoc dependency test feature, swlist --dep --prereq 'emacs' --exreq 'vi' @/ 2007-01-21 James Lowe, Jr. * Large File Support added * The catalog/dfiles/signature file is now padded with newlines instead of NULs. 2006-11-28 James Lowe, Jr. * swlist is now working and supports software selections. * swinstall now supports the qualifier version id (q=xxx) and the location version id (l=/path) * swinstall now has a --ignore-scripts option RELEASE NOTES: 0.499 2006-08-02 Summary (0.483 -> 0.499): ------------------------- This release adds features to swpackage for using gpg-agent when signing packages. Also features were added to enable use of swign in an Automake rule. Enhancements to swverify were made to allow verification of a signed directory exported from a SCM repository such as CVS. The distribution package is now a self-hosting example of using the swign utility along with automake to create tar archive distributions with an embedded GPG signature. An unsafe use of gpg's exit status by swverify was fixed. RELEASE NOTES: 0.483 2006-02-18 Summary (0.474 -> 0.483): ------------------------- 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): ------------------------- 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): ------------------------- 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): ------------------------- 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): ------------------------- 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): ------------------------- 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): ------------------------- 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): ------------------------- 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): ------------------------- 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): ------------------------- Fixed swverify(8) option processing. RELEASE NOTES: 0.405 2004-06-17 Summary (0.371 -> 0.405): ------------------------- 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): ------------------------- 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: -------- 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: -------- 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: -------- 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: -------- Fixes to the INDEX file parser and to swinstall. RELEASE NOTES: 0.307 2004-02-15 Summary: -------- 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.