All releases of pwbuilder


Release Notes: NLS support was added. _execindir, _next_configure, _next_make, and _next_install functions were added. Initial support for slapt-get dependencies was added. SourceForge support was improved. _chmod and _chown functions were improved. Debug mode was improved.


Release Notes: Some parts of the code were rewritten to be less buggy and more stable, reliable, and portable. The functions _have_recode, _have_alsa, _have_libmng, and _have_ldap were added. The functions _patch, _doc, and _source were fixed and improved. Support for passive FTP connections was added.


Release Notes: Configuration options were added to define a temporary directory other than /tmp, to define which SF mirror to use, and to allow running pwbuilder as root. Some new _have_* functions were added. Existing functions were fixed and improved. Compatibility with Slackware was fixed. Other bugfixes and improvements were made.


Release Notes: This release updates the TODO file.


Release Notes: An option to choose a SourceForge mirror has been added, a new _config command, resolution of a conflict with some configure scripts, support for gzipped or bzip2'ed but not tarred sources, updated documentation, and a TODO file.


Release Notes: The documentation has been translated to English. Support for ZIPped sources has been added. The _require command has been renamed to _pwbuilder. ABOUT-NLS has beed added as the default document when calling _doc -d.


Release Notes: "_doc -d" has been fixed so that it works. The following functions have been added: _remove, _alt_configure, _alt_make, _alt_install.


Release Notes: This version adds the -r option to _doc command, fixes removing of preformatted manual pages, makes _patch stop building process if a patch isn't found, adds _have_* functions for Perl, Python, GTK, GTK2, ncurses, slang, SDL, imlib, Qt, glib, glib2, Tcl, Tclx, and Tk, and restores setting of the PATH variable so wrappers now work again.


Release Notes: DESTDIR, INSTALLROOT, INSTALL_ROOT, and PERL_INSTALL_ROOT variables are defined automatically for the _install command (no need to include _i_opt for them). Preformatted manual pages (/usr/man/cat*) are now removed. If there are dashes in the version variable, they are replaced with underscores before setting the package name. mkdir is now always invoked with -p option. _have_sasl and _have_sasl2 functions have been added. The documentation has been updated.


Release Notes: The _have_* functions were added to the API. These functions allow you to check already installed software. Supported software includes aspell, gpg, gpgme, mysql, openssl, and pgsql.