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Spack is a standalone package manager with its own CPIO-based package format but aiming to keep total compatibility with Slackware Linux. Written in POSIX shell as much as it makes sense, it attempts to provide a fairly complete toolkit to build, install, remove, list, retrieve, and arrange your packages. It can be used as an alternative to Slackware's pkgtools, just to independently and properly manage your local software on any distribution, or as the main package manager of the distribution you build yourself.

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2009-07-20 02:12
1.0

This release is able to generate xz-compressed packages. In order to make the selection of the profiles you use often easier, a new way to proceed was added: to automatically call spack with the "foo" profile, you can use a "spack-foo" symlink pointing to the spack command. To speed up writing of make.sh scripts, a new environment variable appears: sysconfdir, which is automatically set to /etc when the used prefix is /usr, and prefix/etc otherwise. There are some minor bugfixes.
Tags: Stable, Major

2008-10-09 03:23
0.7

This release can directly get the source archive through the net with wget when its name begins with "http(s)://" or "ftp(s)://". It fixes a bug that allowed the custom profiles to overwrite the definitions of the build.
Tags: Minor feature enhancements

2008-08-24 04:08
0.6

The project was entirely recoded in (Ash/Bash) shell and renamed Spack. All of the generic modules are now integrated in the main script as routines, which can still be individually removed from the process according to your needs. The general usage and interface of the software were significantly simplified (it can work out-of-the-box) and all you need to play with it now stands in a single manual (spack.8). The frogz-tools, which were maintained separately, were also added directly into the sources.
Tags: Major feature enhancements

2007-11-09 23:34
053

The 'fgz' command was split into several ones (fgzadd, fgzbuild, fgzdel, fgzexport, fgzimport, fgzjump, fgzmod, and frogz) so that the distinction between primary and secondary options doesn't exist anymore. The '@' build syntax was also removed, so from now on all the options are introduced by the classic "-". The 'rainette' install script was rewritten in shell with some new features (and some useless ones were removed). This release also includes some other minor bugfixes and code improvements.
Tags: Major feature enhancements

2007-09-04 18:56
051

This release will print all names when importing notices from tadpoles, and no longer mentions the tutorial in the README file.

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