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Server: cvs.openpkg.org Name: Ralf S. Engelschall
Root: /e/openpkg/cvs Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Module: openpkg-re Date: 31-Jul-2003 16:11:49
Branch: HEAD Handle: 2003073115114800
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Major changes between OpenPKG 1.2 and OpenPKG 1.3
=================================================
- o hook to support forthcoming OSSP rc which should eventually
- replace the OpenPKG "rc" script. The hook checks if the OSSP rc
- is installed and automatically executes it instead of the old
- <prefix>/etc/rc. OSSP rc is provided by installing the
- "openpkg-rc" package. This is an early adopters replacement
- package only.
-
- o mangled and partly rewritten OpenPKG "rc" script. It now provides
- correct error handing, verbose messages, supports Bourne- and
- C-Shell style shells for %env, uses secure temporary file
- handling, to name some few majors. Now it comes with a man page.
-
- o additionally we were also very busy in cleaning up and enhancing
- the run-command scripts of all CORE and BASE. We especially
- added the long-awaited %status section which soon will allow us
- to add smarter starting and stopping of our daemons.
-
- o log file rotation was hardened for all CORE and BASE packages.
- We took care of permissions and daemons will be reloaded,
- restarted or use the new fsl jitter option to make sure they
- recreate a new log after the previous one was moved. This has
- been run-time tested.
-
- o we added OSSP fsl support for every released package we found to
- use syslog(3).
-
- o OpenPKG Development: in order to make the daily maintainance
- less error-prone and time-consuming and to check errors already
- in advance for reducing the release engineering efforts, we
- recently wrote the so-called "speclint" -- a program which
- checks a large amount of syntactical and semantical aspects of
- our RPM .spec files. The same we've now done for the
- run-command (rc) and OSSP fsl configuration files with two
- additional "linters" named "rclint" and "fsllint". This now
- allows us to check mostly all aspects of our packaging input.
- Work is now also in progress for an "rpmlint", which checks the
- packaging output, the binary .rpm files.
-
- o OpenPKG Development: to reduce the "line noise" in our CVS
- repository, we've added real "mass committing" support to our
- developer shell "openpkg-dev". This allowed us to already commit
- many mass changes in one clean step this week. Our
- development/packager shell was enhanced again to now provide
- even more convinience commands for the PMOD/PSOD. OpenPKG:
- openpkg-dev: we finished the working-off of our internal
- "packager shell". It is now fully CVS branch aware and provides
- lots simplified and equalized commands. This way the daily
- PMOD/PSOD tasks and the security engineering tasks should be
- greatly simplified and from now on cost less effort.
-
- o OpenPKG, MySQL: after a long enough evaluation phase, we've now
- officially moved in OpenPKG-CURRENT from MySQL 3.x to MySQL 4.x.
- Following our general rules for dealing with versioned packages
- (and the fact that we only want _one_ single version in each
- release, of course), the old (MySQL-3 based) "mysql" package was
- first merged up to 1-STABLE (for possible inclusion into OpenPKG
- 1.3), then "mysql" was renamed to "mysql3" (in case you still
- have to drive MySQL 3 within OpenPKG-CURRENT), "mysql4" become
- "mysql" and "mysql4" has gone. Be aware of these changes for
- OpenPKG-CURRENT instances
-
- o OpenPKG: after intensive testing and fixing, we've finally
- upgraded in OpenPKG-CURRENT to the current stable GNU C/C++
- Compiler Suite (GCC) version 3.3. In case of any occurring
- incompatibilities or broken packages, please respond to
- [EMAIL PROTECTED] with details.
-
- o OpenPKG: Request Tracker (RT): we finished the migration from
- the Jitterbug based OpenPKG Bug Database to Request Tracker
- (RT). For this we've added mandatory HTTPS access and the
- bi-directional gatewaying between RT and the mailing-lists
- openpkg-dev/openpkg-bugdb. This way, all OpenPKG related
- requests now can be found exclusively in the OpenPKG RT and
- you're strongly advised to give your OpenPKG feedback to us by
- just mailing your request to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-
- https://rt.openpkg.org/
- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
-
- o OpenPKG Service: because the public PGP key servers come and go
- (like keyserver.pgp.com) and this way do not allow us to give
- out reasonable stable references, we finally solved the problem
- by establishing an own OpenPGP and HKP speaking key server for
- the OpenPKG community. Additionally, on the key server's website
- there is a short step-by-step guideline on how to use GnuPG for
- verifying the digital signatures on our RPM packages and
- security advisories.
-
- http://pgp.openpkg.org/
- hkp://pgp.openpkg.org/
-
- o *************************************************************************
- ** NOTICE: Now that OpenPKG 1.3 is available, we fully drop support **
- ** for OpenPKG 1.1. Outdated Releases are considered deprecated and no **
- ** longer maintained in any way. We especially do no longer provide **
- ** security updates. **
- *************************************************************************
-
- o now all issues are tracked in RT
-
- o release extended to 400 packages
-
- o package upgrades: 400x
- Apache 1.3.28, GCC 3.3, ...
-
- o thousands of bugfixes
-
- o ported all packages to over 10 (!) platforms
- primary platforms:
+ o Extended the release size to 400 packages, including important
+ updates to the latest versions of key applications like Apache
+ 1.3.28, BIND 9.2.2, Binutils 2.14, GCC 3.3, INN 2.4.0, MySQL 4.0.14,
+ NTP 4.1.2, OpenSSH 3.6.1p2, PostgreSQL 7.3.4, ProFTPd 1.2.8, Samba
+ 2.2.8a, Squid 2.5.3, teTex 2.0.2, Vim 6.2.57.
+
+ o Thousands of fixes and improvements.
+
+ o Extended official support to 9 platforms and
+ ported all CORE+BASE+PLUS packages to them. Binary
+ packages for CORE+BASE are provided, too.
- FreeBSD 4.8 (ix86)
- FreeBSD 5.1 (ix86)
- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (ix86)
- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (ix86)
- RedHat GNU/Linux 9 (ix86)
- SuSE GNU/Linux 8.2 (ix86)
- - Sun Solaris 2.6 (sparc64)
- Sun Solaris 8 (sparc64)
- - Sun Solaris 8 (ix86)
- Sun Solaris 9 (sparc64)
- Sun Solaris 9 (ix86)
- secondary platforms:
+
+ Additionally, the following platforms are known to work (at
+ least CORE+BASE and some more), although they are not officially
+ supported. Binary packages for CORE are provided only.
+ - FreeBSD 5.1 (alpha)
+ - Sun Solaris 2.6 (sparc64)
+
+ Experimental support for the following platforms exists
+ at least for bootstrapping and critical CORE packages:
+ - Sun Solaris 8 (ix86)
- NetBSD 1.6.1 (sparc64)
- - OpenBSD ?
- - ...
- tertiary platforms:
- Gentoo Linux 1.4 (ix86)
- - MacOS X 10.0.4 (ppc)
- o GCC 3.3
- - ported all packages from vararg to stdarg
- - ported deprecated C++ constructs to current standard
-
- o completely worked off run-command (rc) processor
- - better temporary file handling
- - %env supports bourne/c-shell
- - verbose output
- - filtered/captured stdout/stderr of scripts
-
- o completely worked off run-command scripts (rc.*)
- - %status
- - %stop/%start are %status aware
- - opXXX -> rcXXX
- - logfile rotations
-
- o OSSP fsl deployment
- - doubled number of packages using OSSP fsl
- - all support "with_fsl no" to disable OSSP fsl
-
- o Input Linting
- - speclint (.spec)
- - rclint (rc.*)
- - fsllint (fsl.*)
-
- o Output Linting
- - binary .rpm
-
- o bootstrap enhancements:
- - fixed/supported {m,r,n,s}uid and {m,r,n,s}gid params
- - smaller distribution size
- - less requirements (no more uncompress)
-
- o more elaborate openpkg-tool utility
-
- o even more concised and simplified packages by removing even more redundancy
- - %{l_value}
- - ...
+ o OpenPKG 1.3 is now fully based on GCC 3.3 only. All CORE+BASE+PLUS
+ packages were ported to this latest GNU compiler environment,
+ requiring stricter ISO C and ISO C++ standards compliance by all
+ applications.
+
+ o About 40 syslog(3) based CORE+BASE+PLUS packages (especially
+ daemons) were enabled to use OSSP fsl (fake syslog library) by
+ default. Additionally, every package supports buil-time option
+ "with_fsl no" to disable OSSP fsl logging in case someone prefers
+ native syslog(3) usage.
+
+ o Completely worked off Run-Command (RC) facility, including enhanced
+ run-command processor and greatly extended run-command usage. Now
+ all daemon packages at least in CORE+BASE fully support %status and
+ status-aware %start/%stop/%restart commands and consistently use
+ logfile rotations. The run-command processor especially now supports
+ Bourne-Shell and C-Shell outputs on %env commands, verbose messages
+ and captured stdout/stderr of scripts.
+
+ o The quality of the packages has been greatly enhanced by
+ the rigorous application of fully automated package input and output
+ checking against OpenPKG guidelines and architectural principles.
+ All critical aspects are covered, ranging from style to semantical
+ issues. This not just once enforced the cleanup of packaging,
+ but also makes sure further development can never fallback. As
+ a result, the current package specifications are as concise and
+ redundancy-free as possible. (technically speaking: speclint (for
+ *.spec), rclint (for rc.*), fsllint (for fsl.*), rpmlint (for binary
+ *.rpm).
+
+ o The continued work on the bootstrapping package resulted in various
+ enhancements: fixed/supported --{m,r,n,s}uid and --{m,r,n,s}gid
+ options, smaller distribution size, less run-time requirements (no
+ more uncompress), etc.
Major changes between OpenPKG 1.1 and OpenPKG 1.2
=================================================
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