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ChangeLog


2009/07/22	- 4.21 -> 5.03
		- Changed home page URL from
		  ftp://ftp.gw.com/mirrors/pub/unix/file/
		  to
		  http://www.darwinsys.com/file/
		- Updated Slackware note for 12.0, 12.1, and 12.2, removed
		  older than 11.0
		- Added a removal section
2007 Jul 03	- 4.16 -> 4.21
		- Removed gawk and grep links (now at the top)
		- Updated Slackware note for 11.0 and 12.0
		- Added removepkg
		- Updated cleanup of the bin package file
		  of libmagic.*, another man page, the /etc/file directory
Oct 18, 2005	- 4.14 -> 4.16
		- Updated Slackware note for 10.2
		- After installing the Python bindings, make everything in
		  that directory owned by your non-root user so it can
		  remove the source later
Jul 7, 2005	- Removed make, gcc, binutils, and fileutils/coreutils links
		- 4.13 -> 4.14
		- Moved source directory (see note (a href="howtos.php?msd">here</a>)
		- Rearranged options to shut up the new version of find
		- root.root -> root:root, run when $UID = 0
		- Added -maxdepth 1 to run of find to find PYDIR when
		  installing the python bindings, that will speed it up
		  significantly and will prevent matches of subdirectories
		  that start with python*, changed the match name to
		  python?-*
Feb 17, 2005	- 4.12 -> 4.13
		- Updated Slack note for 10.1
Dec 21, 2004	- 4.10 -> 4.12
Nov 16, 2004	- 4.09 -> 4.10
Apr 15, 2004	- 4.08 -> 4.09
Mar 31, 2004	- 4.07 -> 4.08
		- Added " or coreutils" to the fileutils prerequisite
Feb 5, 2004	- Typo in the part about the 'bin' package (1 character),
		  minor update to those notes
		- Use 'unset FNAME' instead of just running 'FNAME='
Jan 14, 2004	- 4.06 -> 4.07
		- Create ~/backup/packages with mode 700
		- Added instructions for building and installing the
		  Python bindings
Oct 16, 2003	- 4.04 -> 4.06
		- Revamped the part that cleans up the bin package file and
		  removes the Slackware-installed /usr/bin/file, now it's all
		  cut and paste-able and it'll only do anything if there's a
		  line in the package file like this: "usr/bin/file"
		- Added removal of old libmagic.* shared lib files
		- Added run of ldconfig
		- Added cleanup of a "etc/mime.magic.new" and "etc/mime.new"
		  line from the bin package too
		- Added cleanup of old /etc/magic* files from file 3.x
		  versions
Sep 19, 2003	- 4.03 -> 4.04
Jul 30, 2003	- 4.02 -> 4.03
Apr 9, 2003	- 3.41 -> 4.02
		- Set to re-use existing tarball
Mar 4, 2003	- 3.40 -> 3.41
		  Takes care of this:
		  <a href="http://www.idefense.com/advisory/03.04.03.txt">http://www.idefense.com/advisory/03.04.03.txt</a>
Feb 22, 2003	- First entry

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