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ChangeLog


2012/05/11	- 4.2.31 -> 4.4.2
		- Updated Slackware note for 12.0 through 13.37, removed
		  older
2007/08/28	- 4.2.27 -> 4.2.31
		- Updated note for Slackware 11.0 and 12.0
		- Removed gawk, grep links (now at the top)
		- Only run removepkg if it exists
Dec 8, 2005	- Updated note for Slackware 10.2
		- 4.2.25 -> 4.2.27
Sep 8, 2005	- 4.2.20 -> 4.2.25
		- Rearranged options to shut up find when looking for old
		  source directories
		- Note about autoreconf
May 12, 2005	- Updated Slackware note for 10.1
		- Removed make, gcc, fileutils/coreutils, and binutils links
		- Added sha1sum verification
		- Added gpg verification
		- Moved source directory (see note <a href="howtos.php?msd">here</a>)
		- 4.1.20 -> 4.2.20
Sep 15, 2004	- Added note about the version that comes with Slackware
		- Added " or coreutils" to the fileutils prerequisite
		- Changed the md5sum -> textutils link to point to coreutils
		- Updated misc notes
Sep 11, 2003	- The pgp signature (.asc) file that was on alpha.gnu.org
		  isn't there any more, I'm guessing since ftp.gnu.org
		  (which hosts alpha too AFAIK) was cracked, replaced
		  verification with it with a "verified" md5sum from
		  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/before-2003-08-01.md5sums.asc
		  (it matches a tarball I have from June 4th)
		- Don't re-download the patch if applying it fails (wget -nc)
		- Added prerequisites
		- Create ~/installed with mode 700
		- Updated some of the notes to include the fact that
		  Slackware 9.0 comes with slocate and the findutils package
		  does not include GNU locate any more
		- Instead of running 'make install' then strip on the
		  installed binaries, just run 'make install-strip'
Jun 4, 2003	- 4.1.7 -> 4.1.20 - it's basically the same thing as 4.1.7,
		  but there is a new maintainer (and now you can get it from
		  alpha.gnu.org)
		- Added removepkg of findutils (in addition to 'find')
		- Added --disable-nls to configure line
		- Added a history part to the top
		- Updated my patch that sets it up to skip building locate
Feb 3, 2003	- Updated note about slocate
		- Added removal of previous versions' tarballs and source
Aug 23, 2002	- First entry

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