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wpkg 0.7.2 patches

Many more updates in wpkg and a lot more documentation at http://windowspackager.org/ !

I fixed many things, especially, some compression problems with both z and bz2 were resolved for large and packages with "the wrong size".

I test many more fields which all need to be correct. As that grows you may discover that some of your control file fields are invalid!

Added support for compiling all the libraries as DLLs, including the bz2 library which compiles with the proper import/export. I added a copy of the libtld library to test the URIs validity (i.e. only official TLDs can be used!)

wpkg supports symbolic links under Linux. Still need to implement that function under Windows 7.

Now run the prerm script as expected when deconfiguring a package.

Fixed some absolute path checks under MS-Windows, that would generate errors if you used a --root, --admindir, or --instdir. There were such problems with mkdir_p() too.

Much better support for variables and expressions in your control files.

Fixed the --help output so it really works in 80 columns consoles.

Renamed borrowed libraries as wpkg_<name> so we can have them along the corresponding official library.

Fixed the Installed-Size and Extra-Size values to use Kb as expected in Debian packages.

Fixed a bug with a size computation that would end up negative and prevent upgrade of larger packages.

Well... if you want to know more, you'll have to check out the ChangeLog or do a diff with the previous version. This version is much more complete and has now been tested on a larger number of packages some of which are around or over 250Mb.

Enjoy!

Posted by Alexis Wilke 2013-02-25 Labels: patch wpkg

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