Automatic conversion of the NetBSD pkgsrc CVS module, use with care
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Provided by Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net> in pkg/18052.
Changes in 0.11.31:
* Directory statistics display is now updated by DirRescan.
* RenameRE didn't enter the source directory, and thus could easily
fail to find its working files. Fixed.
* MkDir no longer (internally) generates double-slashed names.
Not a big deal, but they were visible in the path entry box.
* Added file recognition for socket and FIFO special files. Cute.
* gentoo now supports SGI's File Alteration Monitor (FAM) tech-
nology, and will update panes if contents are changed by some
other program. This is very nice, and recommended.
* Ran Julian Seward's masterpiece Valgrind on gentoo, at least a
little. Found and fixed a couple of badnesses. Thanks. I'm sure
there are more, but finding them takes lots of time. I'm far from
claiming gentoo to be "Valgrind clean".
* Removed ill-guided use of g_error(); reported by Pehr Johansson.
* Improved quoting and fixed plain wrong syntax in SelectRE example
input button, in default config. Not a big deal, though.
* Improved interaction between CopyAs, MoveAs, Rename, and SymLink's
dialogs and the progress reporting window. Less annoying, now.
* CopyAs now has full progress reporting. Don't know why it hadn't.
* Information now shows item size using ticks every third digits.
Adds another place to configure a tick character; not optimal, I
will clean this up at a later date. Suggested by "[zorba]".
* MenuPopup now understands an "atfocus" bareword argument, which
will locate the menu over the currently focused row. If no focus
exists, it will center the menu in the active pane. Suggested by
"[zorba]".
* Fixed silly buglet that had the "Left" configuration page tree
item stuck looking selected.
* Fixed bug that reported errors twice on double-click. Really
annoying if you use error dialogs, which I guess noone does.
* gentoo now attempts to enable large file support if the host
supports it. This should make large files have correct sizes
shown, and also improves GetSize on large (>2GB) directories,
but is largely untested by the author.
* Accidentally found, and hopefully fixed, a long-standing stealthy
bug, that caused gentoo to falsely report failure to read a dir-
ectory, with a code 2 (file not found). Caused by dangling links.
* Removed premature "Menu" frame from buttons config. Thanks, emj.
* Tweaked configure.in so it respects CFLAGS being passed in. Re-
ported by Frederick Reeve.
Changes in 0.11.30:
* Fixed yet another incredibly stupid bug that caused Copy to fail
when copying nested directories. Introduced in 0.11.28, and re-
ported by Matthias Haase.
* Window sizes in default config should now be (kind of) clamped
to 800x600. Suggested by Roger Sondermann.
* Redesigned the configuration interface a bit, replaced the many
nested tabbed notebooks with a cleaner and more modern-looking
tree for navigation.
* Made the MkDir command slightly more robust.
* Tweaked the progress window somewhat, to reduce flicker.
* Added support for console beep on error. See Errors config page.
* Error reporting seemed to fail sometimes, in e.g. Rename. Fixed.
* Reimplemented DirRescan, for no particular reason.
Changes in 0.11.29:
* Fixed incredibly stupid bug that caused column header clicking to
break (caused by the ghost scroll fix). Thanks, Roger Sondermann.
* Added Ctrl+L as shortcut to path entry (along with shift+Return).
Changes in 0.11.28:
* Improved a long-standing very annoying problem, which caused a pane
to react by scrolling sideways when a quick vertical drag-select
was done. The fix isn't quite 100%, but it's better now at least.
* Fixed subtle bug in glob-to-regular expression translation code
which would break SelectRE for a pattern like "*.[ch]". Reported
by Jean-Yves Lefort.
* When copying a directory, if the destination exists, it will now
be completely deleted before the copying starts. This takes time,
but should ensure a proper result. Reported by Razvan Stranschi.
* Input check button field {Ix} now supports being checked by default,
and also knows about user-defined result texts. The complete syntax
is: {Ix[:LABEL][*][=TRUETEXT,FALSETEXT]}. Clear, huh? OK, here's an
example: {Ix:"gzip compress?"*="-czf","-cf"}. This would emit "-czf"
into the command when checked, "-cf" when unchecked. The box would
default to being checked, that's what the asterisk does.
* Modified default config's Module (for tracker music files) RE to
also match against files named *.mod, and not only mod.*. Reported
by "Mahen".
Changes in 0.11.27:
* MkDir now has an option to focus newly created directory, rather
than entering it. If disabled, gentoo will scroll the pane to
show the newly created directory. Suggested by Ernest Beinrohr.
* If you entered "20 kb", just like that, in the Split size box,
you got 20 bytes. Case-sensitivity is like that. It's nicer now.
* Fixed bug where SelectRow on an already selected row was stupidly
thinking it could select it again. Reported by Kamil Burzynski.
* Automounting now tries "/mountpoint/" if "/mountpoint" failed,
and vice versa. Should now work for both pane doubleclick and
TAB-completed paths, regardless of /etc/fstab format. Yay.
* Redid much of the internal logic for entering a new directory,
so that it's now possible to enter e.g. "/mountpoint/a/b/c",
and actually have gentoo first automount "/mountpoint", then enter
the dir. Previously this would fail if the device wasn't mounted.
* Investigated, found a reason, and speeded up the SelectNone command
by a factor of, oh, I don't know. Some big number, no doubt.
* Finally realized how to adjust labels, and cleaned up the layout
in the Information window a bit using this new knowledge.
Changes in 0.11.26:
* Fixed a XML parsing weakness which made a button label containing
a backslash break config loading. Reported by Roger Sondermann.
* Fixed stupid race condition bug in child process handling, which
sometimes caused a crash in "kill previous instance". Reported by
Joakim Larsson.
* Removed almost 300 redundant calls to gtk_widget_show(). This
should shave a few bytes off the executable size, and perhaps
even save a millisecond or so when building complex GUIs.
* Fixed weird bug where buttons got put above the panes when the
interface was rebuilt after a config change.
* The middle bar in the progress report window used by Copy and
other operations was behaving weirdly (always full). Fixed.
* Added display of elapsed time (in MM:SS format) as well as the
current processing speed and ETA to the progress window.
* Progress window's directory size computation was broken. Fixed.
* DpFocusPath now understands a boolean "clear" option.
Changes in 0.11.25:
* Added a command, DpReorient, to switch pane split orientation
between vertical and horizontal. Suggested by Roger Sondermann.
Bound to Ctrl+R by default. See docs/scratch/command_args.txt.
* view_video now calls mplayer, not xanim. My choice. :)
* Added WMV as a recognized movie format. MPlayer handles it.
* You can now chose *not* to override the base background color
in the panes (uncheck "Override Parent?" in the Root style).
This hopefully allows a theme, or the GTK+ RC file, to control
the default base background color. Thanks to Thomas Weberstaedt
for making me investigate and improve this.
* Applied a couple of tiny patches from Oliver Braun, the FreeBSD
maintainer, to help gentoo build cleanly on FreeBSD systems.
* Simplified automounting modes; it's now either on or off, the
vague "rare" mount mode has been removed.
* Removed the specialized Shortcut feature and associated config
page, and replaced it with another "sheet" of ordinary buttons.
Very very nice, and long overdue.
* Removed incorrect assignment of Tab as shortcut for Split in
the default config.
Changes in 0.11.24:
* Fixed a missing initialization that caused gentoo to crash on
startup, at least on Cygwin. Silly me.
* Improved window grouping even more, should now include most
commands, and the progress reporting windows, too.
* The "Pick Built-In" dialog used in Command configuration was
violently yet stealthily broken. Detected by quarto.
* Incorporated a fix to BSD mounting code, from Michael Ewe.
* SelectAll no longer messes up status numbers. Thanks to Martin
Stubenschrott for letting me know it used to.
* Rewrote Size content handling. Folded old "IQSize" behaviour into
the Size type, added support for "ticks" every 3 digits. Suggested
by someone on IRC whose name I've forgotten.
Changes in 0.11.23:
* Added support for laying out the two panes vertically rather than
horizontally, as has so far been the only way. Handy when you want
to see plenty of columns. Suggested by James Lucha.
* The SelectType command now understands a bareword argument, which
is a glob for type names to select. You can do "SelectType Arch*"
to select all archives in the source pane. Smooth, huh? :)
* Fixed bug in DirParent; parent of "/a/b/" is "/a", not "/a/b".
* Finally broke down and added tab-completion to the path entry
fields. Might require some minor touching up, but works. Nice.
* The Copy command now says something when trying to copy a non-
enterable directory, rather than just failing silently. Oops.
* Rename could falsely report failure under some conditions.
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| devel | ||
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| ham | ||
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$NetBSD: README,v 1.13 2001/12/03 21:33:56 agc Exp $ Welcome to the NetBSD Packages Collection ========================================= In brief, the NetBSD Packages Collection is a set of software utilities and libraries which have been ported to NetBSD. The packages collection software can retrieve the software from its home site, assuming you are connected in some way to the Internet, verify its integrity, apply any patches, configure the software for NetBSD, and build it. Any prerequisite software will also be built and installed for you. Installation and de-installation of software is managed by the packaging utilities. The packages collection is made into a tar_file every week: ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/tar_files/pkgsrc.tar.gz and you can sup the pkgsrc tree using the `pkgsrc' name for the collection. The pkgsrc tree is laid out in various categories, and, within that, the various packages themselves. You need to have root privileges to install packages. We are looking at ways to remove this restriction. + To install a package on your system, you need to change into the directory of the package, and type "make install". + If you've made a mistake, and decided that you don't want that package on your system, then type "pkg_delete <pkg-name>", or "make deinstall" while in the directory for the package. + To find out all the packages that you have installed on your system, type "pkg_info". + To remove the work directory, type "make clean", and "make clean-depends" will clean up any working directories for other packages that are built in the process of making your package. + Optionally, you can periodically run "make clean" from the top level pkgsrc directory. This will delete extracted and built files, but will not affect the retreived source sets in pkgsrc/distfiles. + You can set variables to customise the behaviour (where packages are installed, various options for individual packages etc), by setting variables in /etc/mk.conf. The pkgsrc/mk/bsd.pkg.defaults.mk gives the defaults which are used in pkgsrc. This file can be used as a guide to set values in /etc/mk.conf - it is only necessary to set values where they differ from the defaults. The best way to find out what packages are in the collection is to move to the top-level pkgsrc directory (this will usually be /usr/pkgsrc), and type "make readme". This will create a file called README.html in the top-level pkgsrc directory, and also in all category and package directories. You can then see what packages are available, along with a short (one-line) comment about the function of the package, and a pointer to a fuller description, by using a browser like lynx (see pkgsrc/www/lynx) or Mozilla (pkgsrc/www/mozilla), or Communicator. This is also available online as ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/README.html. Another way to find out what packages are in the collection is to move to the top-level pkgsrc directory and type "make index". This will create pkgsrc/INDEX which can be viewed via "make print-index | more". You can also search for particular packages or keywords via "make search key=<somekeyword>". It is also possible to use the packaging software to install pre-compiled binary packages by typing "pkg_add <URL-of-binary-pkg>". To see what binary packages are available, see: ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/<release>/<arch>/All/ where <release> is the NetBSD release, and <arch> is the hardware architecture. One limitation of using binary packages provided from ftp.netbsd.org is that all mk.conf options were set to the defaults at compile time. LOCALBASE, in particular, defaults to /usr/pkg, so non-X binaries will be installed in /usr/pkg/bin, man pages will be installed in /usr/pkg/man... When a packaged tool has major compile time choices, such as support for multiple graphic toolkit libraries, the different options may be available as separate packages. For more information on the packages collection see the file Packages.txt file in the same place where you found this README, usually in the top-level pkgsrc dir. directory.