[pkgbuild] pkgbuild-1.3.0 released

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Announcing pkgbuild 1.3.0.


What is pkgbuild?


pkgbuild is a tool for building Solaris SVr4 packages from rpm-like
spec files.

pkgbuild is also available as part of the JDS CBE:
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/jds/contributing/building
You can also find some nice instructions and examples there.
(Note: at the time of writing this, the JDS CBE includes
pkgbuild 1.2.0 but will be soon upgraded to 1.3.0)

Looking for spec files?  100s of spec files are available from the
following projects:

 -  SFE - spec-files-extra: href=http://pkgbuild.sf.net/spec-files-extra
 -  JDS - GNOME based desktop: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/jds
 -  Xfce desktop at opensolaris.org: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/xfce


Changes in this release


	Bugs fixed: 

	- fix detecting GNU tar for versions >= 1.15.1.  Patch from
	  Mike Bristow.

	- expand macros in the argument of %files -f.  Patch from
	  Mike Bristow.

	- do not send build failure emails for DEP_FAILED specs

	- [ 1786439 ] Regex characters need quoting

	- [ 1812491 ] pkgtool with a unresponsive server takes too long
          to timeout.  Bug report and fix from Ananth Shrinivas S.

	- [ 1767423 ] pkgtool error when download_to dir has corrupted file
	  Reported by Shiv.

        - handle tar.Z tarballs.  Patch from Thomas Wagner.

	- [ 1705877 ] defattr takes an optional 4th arg in rpmbuild
	  Patch from Mike Bristow

	- { } characters get deleted from %files entries.  Reported by
	  Dave Lin.

	- macros not expanded in the arguments of %files.  Reported by
	  Dave Lin.

	- generate xhtml reports, patch from Damien Carbery.

	New features:

	- pkgtool --autodeps
	  The new --autodeps option allows pkgtool to pick up spec files
	  from the directories specified by the "specdirs" configuration
	  setting to satisfy dependencies.  Consider this example:

	  $ cd SFE
	  $ pkgtool build --download SFEgit.spec
	  INFO: Copying %use'd or %include'd spec files to SPECS directory
	  INFO: Processing spec files
	  WARNING: skipping package SFEgit: required package SFEcurl not i...
	  WARNING: and no spec file specified on the command line provides it
	  WARNING: skipping package SFEgit: required package SFEasciidoc n...
	  WARNING: and no spec file specified on the command line provides it
	  WARNING: skipping package SFEgit: required package SFExmlto not ...
	  WARNING: and no spec file specified on the command line provides it
	  WARNING: skipping package SFEgit: required package SFEcurl-devel...
	  WARNING: and no spec file specified on the command line provides it

	  Summary:

				   package |      status | details
	  ---------------------------------+-------------+----------------...
				    SFEgit |  DEP_FAILED | Dependency chec...

	  This tries to build SFEgit, but SFEgit requires SFEasciidoc
	  SFExmlto and SFEcurl-devel.  So you need to build these first.
	  With the --autodeps option, pkgtool adds them to the build
	  automatically:

	  $ pkgtool build --download --autodeps SFEgit.spec
	  INFO: Copying %use'd or %include'd spec files to SPECS directory
	  INFO: Processing spec files
	  WARNING: Added /export/work/SFE/SFEcurl.spec to the build to sat...
	  INFO: Finding sources
	  INFO: Downloading source http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.17....
	  INFO: Running pkgbuild -ba [...] SFEcurl.spec (SFEcurl)
	  INFO: SFEcurl PASSED
	  INFO: Installing SFEcurl
	  INFO: Installing SFEcurl-devel
	  WARNING: Added /export/work/SFE/SFEasciidoc.spec to the build to...
	  INFO: Finding sources
	  INFO: Downloading source http://downloads.sourceforge.net/asciid...
	  INFO: Running pkgbuild -ba [...] SFEasciidoc.spec (SFEasciidoc)
	  INFO: SFEasciidoc PASSED
	  INFO: Installing SFEasciidoc
	  INFO: Installing SFEasciidoc-root
	  WARNING: Added /export/work/SFE/SFExmlto.spec to the build to sa...
	  WARNING: Added /export/work/SFE/SFEfindutils.spec to the build t...
	  INFO: Finding sources
	  INFO: Downloading source http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/findutils/fi...
	  INFO: Running pkgbuild -ba [...] SFEfindutils.spec (SFEfindutils)
	  INFO: SFEfindutils PASSED
	  INFO: Installing SFEfindutils
	  INFO: Finding sources
	  INFO: Downloading source http://cyberelk.net/tim/data/xmlto/stab...
	  INFO: Running pkgbuild -ba [...] SFExmlto.spec (SFExmlto)
	  INFO: SFExmlto PASSED
	  INFO: Installing SFExmlto
	  INFO: Finding sources
	  INFO: Downloading source http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/...
	  INFO: Running pkgbuild -ba [...] SFEgit.spec (SFEgit)
	  INFO: SFEgit PASSED
	  INFO: Installing SFEgit

	  Summary:

				   package |      status | details
	  ---------------------------------+-------------+-------------------
				    SFEgit |      PASSED | 
				   SFEcurl |      PASSED | 
			       SFEasciidoc |      PASSED | 
				  SFExmlto |      PASSED | 
			      SFEfindutils |      PASSED | 

          you can set specdirs in ./.pkgtoolrc or ~/.pkgtoolrc

	- Requires: /path/to/file
	  (also BuildRequires: /path/to/file and 
                BuildConflicts: /path/to/file)

	  This is based on patches provided by Mike Bristow. [ 1707525 ]

	  When using Requires: /path/to/file, pkgbuild tries to
	  find the file in the Solaris package contents file
	  and adds the package to the depend file.  If more than
	  one package owns the file (which can be a directory too),
	  it prints a warning and picks one.

	- %error and %warning macros:

	      %error foo

	  prints "ERROR: foo" in logs and build reports, aborts
	  the build.

	      %warning foo

	  prints "WARNING: foo" but the build continues

        - implement the %check scriptlet.  It gets run after %install
	  for sanity testing the build.  A typical command in the %check
	  section is "make check" whenever the build system of the module
	  supports it.

	- pkgtool looks for spec files with a .spec suffix if not found
	  without the suffix.

	  $ pkgtool build SFEclutter
	  INFO: Copying %use'd or %include'd spec files to SPECS directory
	  INFO: Processing spec files
	  INFO: Finding sources
	  INFO: Running pkgbuild -ba [...] SFEclutter.spec (SFEclutter)
	  INFO: SFEclutter PASSED
	  INFO: Installing SFEclutter
	  INFO: Installing SFEclutter-devel


More information

	http://pkgbuild.sf.net/
	http://sf.net/projects/pkgbuild/