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