Spack

This release replaces the "fmt" command used in spackdesc by POSIX awk, provides a better UI for this command, and make it generate totally Slackware-like output. It also more properly centralizes the spack-related configuration files into the "<sysconfdir>/spack" sub-directory.

The spackfind and spackindex commands have been mostly rewritten in order to be more flexible and compliant with POSIX. It is from now on possible to easily edit and update the data basis generated by spackindex, and to feed them with the packages of the Spack native format. Because the data basis format had to slightly change to complete this, it is nevertheless required to remake the existing basis for them to work with this release.

In this release, the CPIO-based package format is definitively adopted as the native Spack's package format. This allows the project to be a complete and standalone package manager instead of being just a package generator. Nevertheless, it is still possible to use it in this way and to generate traditional Slackware packages.

This release allows you to pass package names to spkadd through its standard input. It moreover reintroduces an --install option in this command to order a plain installation, without looking first for an upgrade. A bug was also fixed in spkcpio, which caused the CRC cpio format to be applied to the sub-archive instead of the leading one.

This release fixes another bug in spkadd, which caused the packages with regex significant characters in their name to be improperly uninstalled. The spktag command was also removed, and its successor will from now on be maintained as a separate project named GUST (Generates Ur Slackware Tagfiles).