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[Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>]

The much anticipated Sorcery 1.10.0 has been released.

Some of the new features are a new tool "cleanse", full depends ordering,
build split changes, addition of persistant variables between spell
files, local grimoire support in scribe, the addition of a "FUNCTIONS"
file to override certain sorcery functions in a grimoire, and a
significant speed improvement to our internal hash table library.

Enjoy!

Due to some issues with full depends resolution it is necessary to
run at least a portion of the cleanse process first. Otherwise if a
holey depends tree exists the ordering may bail out of cast with a
rather obscure error. A temporary hack has been put in place to prompt
the user about running cleanse. This will go away for the next major
release.

Here is the complete changelog from 1.8 to current. The 1.9.x series
seems to have had only a portion of the code transfered.


2004-05-28 Andrew Stitt <astitt AT sourcemage.org>
        * Sorcery Release 1.10.0

2004-05-28 Paul Mahon <pmahon AT sourcemage.org>
        * Nasty hack to force cleanse to run first time cast is run

2004-05-25 Neuron <vlmarek AT volny.cz>
        * libstate: bug #6898

2004-05-25 Neuron <vlmarek AT volny.cz>
        * libmisc: More robust handling of missing config files
        * libmisc: some \t changed to spaces

2004-05-24 Andrew Stitt <astitt AT sourcemage.org>
        * libsorcery excluded: revert Casey Harkins, blind removal of
        the "files", "directories" and "symlinks" functions (change 34187).

2004-05-21 Eric Schabell <eschabell AT sourcemage.org>
        * libcrossinstall: /tmp and /var/tmp given proper permissions,
          bug #6891.

2004-05-23 Neuron <vlmarek AT volny.cz>
        * config_query_* functions now respects reconfigure option for cast

2004-05-23 Neuron <vlmarek AT volny.cz>
        * cosmetic fix for libmisc/config_get_option

2004-05-21 Eric Schabell <eschabell AT sourcemage.org>
        * archspecs/amd64: added two versions for AMD64 specs, one
          is for -m64 and one is for 32 bit with -m32, bug #5487.
        * libcrossinstall, sorcery: added menu to libcrossinstall for
          user menu to set install root as he/she pleases, bug #4933.
        * sorcery: rigorous testing with help from sandall produced
          a need to reset install_root when turning off cross install.

2004-05-19 Neuron <vlmarek AT volny.cz>
        * libhash: Applied Afrayedknot's hint on speeding up things,
          version 2 :)

2004-05-18 Casey Harkins <charkins AT pobox.com>
        * libsorcery: modified filter() to accept patterns, bug #6423
        * excluded: added /lib/modules/*/modules.*, bugs #6423, #6331

2004-05-18 Neuron <vlmarek AT volny.cz>
        * libhash: reverted for now

2004-05-18 Neuron <vlmarek AT volny.cz>
        * libhash: Applied Afrayedknot's hint on speeding up things,
          which gives us nice -1s per cast

2004-05-17 Eric Schabell <eschabell AT sourcemage.org>
        * subroutines: added fix from alley_cat to make it "ls"
          anything independent.
        * libstate: fixed problem with libstate.modify_local_config()
          not passing more than one arg to be set with variable, thanks
          to CuZnDragon for pointing out the problem. I am not sure how
          this came to be... what has changed that might cause this? Or
          was this around longer and just unnoticed?

2004-05-17 Neuron <vlmarek AT volny.cz>
        * subroutines: Fixed 'ls' -> 'ls --color=no'

2004-05-15 Seth Woolley <seth AT tautology.org>
        * libdepends: rycee's fix for uninstalled providers

2004-05-08 Paul Mahon <pmahon AT sourcemage.org>
        * Fix for prune in cleanse

2004-05-06 Eric Schabell <eschabell AT sourcemage.org>
        * libdepends: slight adjustment to get the fix from yesterday
          to actually cast the spells chosen, fixes bug #6831.
        * groups, accounts: added scanlogd:126:126, fixes bug #6745.

2004-05-05 Eric Schabell <eschabell AT sourcemage.org>
        * sorcery: added a one line check for empty sections
          when trying to display menu, fixes bug #6829.
        * libsorcery: removed a basename cut show path where
          the 'provider' listings is coming from (which grimoire),
          fixes bug #6831 (might want to beautify this later?).
        * libsorcery, libdepends: changed the previous fix to show
          only the basename and also the version number, fixes #6831.

2004-04-03 Seth Woolley <seth AT tautology.org>
        * libdepends: spelling corrections.

2004-04-30 Andrew Stitt <astitt AT sourcemage.org>
        * cast, libdepends: Fixed the private_compute_installed_depends
          function. The function was failing to properly create a depends
          tree, and was taking too long to run. It now correctly builds the
          dependency tree out of installed spells and, most of the processing
          is now internal to awk, and thus much faster. One libhash operation
          per installed spell in contrast to three or more depending on the
          size, and amount of lint in the depends file.

2004-04-26 Andrew Stitt <astitt AT sourcemage.org>
        * libcast: add ability to override functions in the build pipeline 
with
          a FUNCTIONS file in a grimoire or section, and the USE_FUNCTIONS
          variable in DETAILS to control it.

2004-04-22 Neuron <vlmarek AT volny.cz>
        * Fixed 'empty string' warnings for cast -fix (Bug 6771)

2004-04-21 Andrew Stitt <astitt AT sourcemage.org>
        * libsorcery, libgrimoire, libtrack, libaccount, libstate:
          Move some functions around to hopefully more intuitive places
          in an effort to make sorcery more modular and understandable.
          Hopefully these efforts will make sorcery calls less of a web
          structure.

2004-04-20 Andrew Stitt <astitt AT sourcemage.org>
        * build_api/api1 build_api/api2: Add return values to run_build_spell
          so that the caller can do special stuff this may end up just getting
          passed back to the success/fail api specific function instead. Fixes
          issues with compile log generation after aborts from bad md5s during
          unpack.

2004-04-19 Andrew Stitt <astitt AT sourcemage.org>
        * Adding code for build split. Major changes to cast, libsorcery,
          libgrimoire libcodex and libapi. Addition of
          /var/lib/sorcery/modules/build_api directory and the files api1
          api2 and common to it.

2004-04-18 Eric Schabell <eschabell AT sourcemage.org>
        * install: added sorcery library removal before installing
          new version, should prevent problems in the future.

2004-04-16 Karsten Behrmann <bearperson AT gmx.net>
        * usr/sbin/cast: started eliminating the spaces-in-filenames problem

2004-04-16 Eric Schabell <eschabell AT sourcemage.org>
        * libmisc, libapi: spelling fix for 'persistant.'

2004-04-14 Martin Ruderer <martin AT lddd.org>
        * sort of added libstate::modify_config
        * added libstate::codex_is_local
        * added scribe localize and unlocalize (Bug 3607)

2004-04-14 Karsten Behrmann <bearperson AT gmx.net>
        * install: first file to get quotes around everything

2004-04-14 Paul Mahon <pmahon AT sourcemage.org>
        * Make cleanse not sweep twice (two functions had the same name)

2004-04-14 Eric Schabell <eschabell AT sourcemage.org>
        * libsorcery: removed pre-cleanse code for cleaning stale depneds,
          part of bug #6534.

2004-04-13 hgg <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>
        * libcrossinstall: adding /var/spool/mail to list of dirs to be made
        * Scribe,libcodex: make scribe work with INSTALL_ROOT, adding multiple
          grimoires not working yet, but "CROSS_INSTALL=on scribe add stable"
          works fine.

2004-04-12 Paul Mahon <pmahon AT sourcemage.org>
        * Addition of cleanse script and man page

2004-04-10 Eric Schabell <eschabell AT sourcemage.org>
        * libinitd: added touch $target_file for tracking of
          config scripts in /etc/sysconfig, bug #6640.

2004-04-08 Eric Schabell <eschabell AT sourcemage.org>
        * mirror/SORCERY: updated my mirror to work again.

2004-04-07 hgg <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>
        * libcrossinstall: minor fixes for a new install structure

2004-04-06 Andrew Stitt <astitt AT sourcemage.org>
        * /usr/sbin/sorcery: added shorter options to sorcery bug #1145
        * /usr/share/man/man8/sorcery.8: add short options to manual and
          add a listing for the upgrade option that seems to be missing.

2004-04-05 Eric Schabell <eschabell AT sourcemage.org>
        * mirror/APACHE: fixed typo in basis url, bug #6552.
        * accounts, groups: added ntop:132:125: uid/gid, bug #6520.

2004-04-02 Karsten Behrmann <anonymous AT sourcemage.org>
        * usr/sbin/gaze: fixed 'gaze md5sum' for files with spaces
        * usr/sbin/cast: might fix md5sum check for files with spaces

2004-03-31 Neuron <vlmarek AT volny.cz>
        * Missed one place where new config toys uses "$SPELL_CONFIG.p"
          instead of "$SPELL_CONFIG"

2004-03-30 Neuron <vlmarek AT volny.cz>
        * File holding persistent variables is "$SPELL_CONFIG.p" now

2004-03-30 Neuron <vlmarek AT volny.cz>
        * Persistent variables are now automatically (re)stored for:
          CONFLICTS CONFIGURE DEPENDS TRIGGERS PRE_BUILD BUILD INSTALL
          COMPILE POST_BUILD POST_INSTALL

2004-03-29 hgg <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>
        * /etc/sorcery/config,libcrossinstall: changing INSTALL_ROOT=* to
          INSTALL_ROOT=${INSTALL_ROOT:=*}

2004-03-27 hgg <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>
        * /etc/sorcery/config: add CROSS_INSTALL=${CROSS_INSTALL:=off}
          Sorcery should run correctly without the .../local/config file

2004-03-26 hgg <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>
        * libsorcery: remove my INSTALL_ROOT paths from LDFLAGS, didn't
          mean to submit them.

2004-03-25 hgg <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>
        * libcrossinstall: add * so it copies the gzipped man pages
          and don't copy GRIMOIRE_LIST or the .../depends/*
          /var/tmp needed writable permissions
        * etc/sorcery/config: turn patch and tmpfs off globally, change
          the doc dir to a FHS compliant /usr/share/doc.
        * libgrimoire: usr/src/deaddir now $INSTALL_ROOT/usr/src/deaddir
        * libsorcery: /usr/src/ now $INSTALL_ROOT/usr/src,
          OMIT now uses $INSTALL_ROOT also

2004-03-18 Eric Schabell <eschabell AT sourcemage.org>
        * libdepends, libstate: rycee patch fixing option_depends, bug #6365.

2004-03-17 Eric Schabell <eschabell AT sourcemage.org>
        * libsecurity: fixed head calls to -n #, mentioned on lists.
        * libsorcery: fixed to properly deal with tar compression, bug #2054.

2004-03-16 Martin Ruderer <martin AT lddd.org>
        * Documented some of cast's functions.
        * Fixed some formal mistake in the docs.

2004-03-16 Eric Schabell <eschabell AT sourcemage.org>
        * libsorcery: fixed check to prevent cast each time for sound spells,
          also adjusted spells so that no duplicate config entries made,
          bug #822.
        * config, libcast, dispel, gaze, sorcery, libsorcery: updated
          patch for current sorcery, sorcery menu option for compression
          choice for user (bzip/gzip), bug #2045.
        * Pulling groups and accounts into stable as verified and needed,
          will not make new release announcement.
        * groups, accounts: added mysql:121 to groups, small cleanup
          in accounts (too many :'s), bug #5547.

2004-03-15 Andrew Stitt <astitt AT sourcemage.org>
        * Changelog: fix several typos in previous Changelog message.
        * cast, libcast: pulled code from cast into libcast, added some
          documentation.

2004-03-14 Eric Schabell <eschabell AT sourcemage.org>
        * libmisc: arwed's patch to fix sed problem, bug #6350.
        * libdepends: andrew's patch to fix make depends output, bug #6267.

2004-03-12 Eric Schabell <eschabell AT sourcemage.org>
        * libapi, libgrimoire, cast: applied patches for conflicting dispel
          option to be set with auto 'y', bug #6344.
        * gaze: small adjustment to optimization patch.
        * gaze: added optimizations patch for search, thanks Neuron, bug 
#6335.

2004-03-11 Eric Schabell <eschabell AT sourcemage.org>
        * libsorcery: fixed a typo, damnit...
        * sorcery, libsorcery: added two functions and adjusted menu
          to deal nicely with sound theme selection, bug #822.
        * gaze: patch gaze html, now xhmtl/css validated, bug #6301.
        * libgrimoire: create_account() modified to allow spell writers
          to pass home dir and shell options to useradd functions, is
          optional so nothing should be affected, bug #6336.
        * libsorcery: typo fixed for LD_LIBRARY_PATH reference, bug #6332.

2004-03-10 Eric Schabell <eschabell AT sourcemage.org>
        * gaze: applied gaze orphans patch (minus -q flag), bug #6302.
        * libgrimoire: a bit of a cleanup, added another useradd
          return code to the loop, bug #6317.

2004-03-09 Eric Schabell <eschabell AT sourcemage.org>
        * groups, accounts: adjusted clamav uid:guid, bug #6317.

2004-03-08 Eric Schabell <eschabell AT sourcemage.org>
        * cast, summon, dispel, scribe: user allowed to --help now, bug #6291.
        * cast: added ldconfig after resurrect, bug #6278.
        * libgrimoire: reversing this fix... not borking sorcery, but seems
          not to work either... see bug for comments, #1817.
        * libgrimoire: install_xinetd_confs() patched to add xinetd to SPELLS
          to be cast, bug #1817.

2004-03-06 Paul Mahon <pmahon AT sourcemage.org>
        * Fix sorcery UI install queue locking problem
        * Fix for select_list and multi-word options

2004-03-04 Eric Schabell <eschabell AT sourcemage.org>
        * libmisc: explode function speedups from Arwed, bug #6296.

2004-02-27 Seth Woolley <seth AT tautology.org>
        * gaze, libsecurity: made sure to put checkmd5s in gaze and fixed
          a cosmetic bug in gaze checkmd5s

2004-02-27 Martin Ruderer <martin AT lddd.org>
        * Documented some of cast's functions.
        * corrected some mistakes in the docs.

2004-02-26 Eric Schabell <eschabell AT sourcemage.org>
        * config, summon, scribe, sorcery, cast, libsorcery: applied ally_cat
          patch for setting nice values for sorcery processes, bug #720.
        * libsorcery: small fix to bashdoc for set_nice().
        * gaze.1, gaze, libsecurity: added libsecurity, added checkmd5s option
          to gaze and updated man page, thanks to swoolley for the work,
          bug #1409

2004-02-25 Martin Ruderer <martin AT lddd.org>
        * added http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ to
          /etc/sorcery/mirrors/SOURCEFORGE

2004-02-25 Eric Schabell <eschabell AT sourcemage.org>
        * libsorcery: added stale depends cleaning to gaze prune, now
          provides depends.stale file for removed stale dependencies, bug 
#6237.
        * libsorcery: cleaned up ugly tabs.
        * libsorcery: added LC_ALL=C to optimize setup, bug #2910.
        * libsorcery: simplified the logic in stale deps cleanup, bug #6237.

2004-02-24 Eric Schabell <eschabell AT sourcemage.org>
        * accounts: mysql and clamav spell accounts added for treeve.
        * libsorcery: optimize() added "-O" to CXXFLAGS, bug #1514.
        * libsorcery: optimize() patch adjusted to add to CFLAGS and in
          proper order, bug #1514.
        * libgrimoire: fixed useradd checks in create_account(), bug #5790.

2004-02-23 Paul Mahon <pmahon AT sourcemage.org>
        * Bug 3765: Full dependency ordering for already cast spells

2004-02-23 Eric Schabell <eschabell AT sourcemage.org>
        * libgrimoire: added some return code checking for useradd function
          to try and make less fail sensitive to existing uid/guid's, related
          to bug #5790.
        * libgrimoire: fixed failing rejected casts, bug #6093.
        * config: added fallback mirror for Adam Clark's mirror and
          LEAPFORWARD_URL default set to empty (can specify default fallback).
        * libgrimoire: adjusted the useradd fixes, bug #5790.

2004-02-22 Eric Schabell <eschabell AT sourcemage.org>
        * groups: fix bug for firebird, bug #5790.
        * libgrimoire: added -f option to groupadd command, returns success if
          the group already exists, bug #5790.