[schilytools] [RELEASE] 2022-10-16

Sun Oct 16 18:06:46 CEST 2022

Dear schilytools users,

I am proud to present the 2022-09-18 release of schilytools.
We have been very busy preparing this first release after
Jörg's passing and hope that you find it useful.

Obtain the release tarball schily-2022-10-16.tar.bz2 from:

Obtain release tarballs from:

	http://fuz.su/pub/schilytools
	ftp://fuz.su/pub/schilytools
	rsync://fuz.su/pub/schilytools
	https://schilytools.pkgsrc.pub/pub/schilytools/
	http://schilytools.pkgsrc.pub/pub/schilytools/
	https://mirrors.dotsrc.org/schilytools/
	http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/schilytools/
	ftp://mirrors.dotsrc.org/schilytools/
	rsync://mirrors.dotsrc.org/schilytools/

The SHA3-384 checksum is:

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New features with AN-2022-10-16:

With great sadness we report the death of schilytools main author and
long time maintainer Jörg Schilling (1955-03-27--2021-10-10).  Jörg, we
miss you!  After his passing, development has been picked up by a group
of volunteers who would like to keep the project alive and well.  Our
goal is to carefully preserve the portability and compatibility of this
project while extending it to new platforms and implementing new tools
and features that fit the tool set.

As a part of the change in management, the schilytools project has moved
from Sourceforge to Codeberg.  Please report bugs and send patches to
our bug tracker:

	https://codeberg.org/schilytools/schilytools

or to our mailing list schilytools at mlists.in-berlin.de:

	https://mlists.in-berlin.de/mailman/listinfo/schilytools-mlists.in-berlin.de

Obtain release tarballs from:

	http://fuz.su/pub/schilytools
	ftp://fuz.su/pub/schilytools
	rsync://fuz.su/pub/schilytools
	https://schilytools.pkgsrc.pub/pub/schilytools/
	http://schilytools.pkgsrc.pub/pub/schilytools/
	https://mirrors.dotsrc.org/schilytools/
	http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/schilytools/
	ftp://mirrors.dotsrc.org/schilytools/
	rsync://mirrors.dotsrc.org/schilytools/

If you have previously reported bugs to Jörg Schilling and they have not
been fixed, please report them again.  We do not have access to Jörg's
private emails and do not know what you have reported.

UPDATING:

-	man2html: The man2html utility has been removed from the
	schilytools distribution.  Users who wish to continue using this
	utility are advised to use Thomas Dickey's version instead.

		https://dickey.his.com/scripts/man2html.html

-	Various man pages have been renamed to follow BSD conventions.
	Users may need to manually remove the following old man pages on
	update: streamarchive.4, makefiles.4, makerules.4, changeset.4,
	sccschangeset.4, sccsfile.4, and star.4.

-	sdd: the tool now defaults to ssh(1) instead of rsh(1) as the
	remote shell.  The previous behaviour can be restored by compiling
	with -UUSE_SSH, passing the new rsh=$shell option, or setting the
	RSH environment variable to a suitable shell.

NEW FEATURES:

-	libfind/sfind: Fix incorrect error handling of -exec ... {} +
	primaries.  Previously in some cases the primary returned an
	error even though it should always return true and in other
	cases it completely disregarded the exit code.  Now the primary
	always returns true and sets the exit code of libfind and sfind
	to a non-zero value in case one of the commands returned with a
	non-zero exit code.
	Reported by Tavian Barnes.  Submitted by Nico Sonack.

-	libfind/sfind: Report failures to query the password/group
	database for -nouser/-nogroup.  Previously failure to query
	these databases was treated as if the user id/group id was not
	found.  We now print a diagnostic message and return a non-zero
	value if the getpwuid() or getgrgid() call failed.
	Reported by Tavian Barnes.

-	libfind/sfind: Report presence of directory loops.  Previously,
	such directory loops were silently ignored.  Now, upon
	encountering a directory loop, sfind prints a diagnostic message
	to standard error.  The search is continued but sfind will
	terminate with a nonzero exit status.  This change improves
	compatibility with POSIX (cf. PASC interpretation request 1606).
	All libfind consumers calling the treewalk() function (mkisofs,
	sccs, and star) are affected.
	Reported by Tavian Barnes.  Submitted by Nico Sonack.

-	star: rename tests/compress archives to avoid issues on case
	insensitive file systems.  These file systems do not like having
	multiple files whose names only differ in letter case.  Rename
	the archives to completely distinct file names to avoid this
	issue.
	Reported by tux <rosa.elefant at icloud.com>.

-	mkisofs/mkisofs.8: adjust reference of magic(4) to magic(5)
	Submitted by Martin Rehak.

-	*: With the switch of Solaris from SysV man page sections to BSD
	man page sections, man pages are now installed according to BSD
	conventions instead of SysV conventions.  This affects the man
	pages makefiles(4), makerules(4), streamarchive(4),
	changeset(4), sccsfile(4), sccschangeset(4), and star(4).
	Reported by Friedhelm Mehnert.

-	*: All references to Solaris man pages have been adjusted to BSD
	man page sections as used in Solaris 11.4.

-	libschily/getargs.3: document surprising behaviour that the
	the argument to a foo= parameter may be in the following
	argument.  Thus, shell scripts should write foo= "$bar" instead
	of foo=$bar if $bar could possibly be empty.
	Submitted by Nico Sonack.

-	libschily/getargs.3: improve spelling and grammar.

-	sdd: default to ssh for rmt connections.  Just like star, the
	sdd utility now defaults to ssh instead of rsh for rmt
	connections.  The old behaviour can be restored by compiling
	with -UUSE_SSH.
	Submitted by Nico Sonack.

-	sdd: add new option -rsh to set the remote shell program.  This
	option does the same thing as the RSH environment variable but
	permits setting the remote shell program through the command
	line, which might be more convenient for users.
	Submitted by Nico Sonack.

-	RULES: symbol versioning has been enabled for FreeBSD following
	intensive testing and preliminary enabling in the FreeBSD ports
	collection.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS:

-	Schilytools contains pxupgrade, a dummy for a closed-source
	component.  While the source code of this component is available
	to the maintainer, it cannot be published due to an existing NDA
	with Plextor.  Depending on whether we can get this NDA lifted
	or not, the pxupgrade dummy code may either be replaced with the
	real source code of the tool or removed altogether.

CONTRIBUTORS FOR THIS VERSION:

Robert CLAUSECKER <fuz at fuz.su>
Martin REHAK <martin.rehak at oracle.com>
Nico SONACK <nsonack at herrhotzenplotz.de>

The schilytools maintainer
Robert Clausecker <fuz at fuz.su>

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