Changelog

0.16.0, Thu Mar 22 2012

• Restore old progress bar behaviour on old SuSE releases
• Support for repomd.xml (now required for all 11.x+ versions)
• Support for openSUSE 12.4

0.15.8, Fri Oct 29 2010

• Huge performance improvement when checking delta rpms
• Properly self-check signature of fou4s on openSUSE 11.3

0.15.7, Sun Aug 15 2010

• Support for openSUSE 11.3
• Fix wrong parsing of option "--older-than"

0.15.6, Wed Jan 6 2010

• If available, use zypper vcmp to compare versions if structure is different

0.15.5, Mon Dec 14 2009

• Fixed auto-use-buildtime to actually work

0.15.4, Wed Dec 9 2009

• Re-enabled use-buildtime when version structure is different
• Fix kernel detection for pae kernel
• Work with multiple kernels on openSUSE 11.2
• Fix new acceptpreinstallinfo option

0.15.3, Mon Nov 30 2009

• Fix signature verification on openSUSE 11.2

0.15.2, Mon Nov 16 2009

• Bugfixes for openSUSE 11.2
• New parameter --acceptpreinstallinfo for non-interactive kernel updates

0.15.1, Sat Oct 17 2009

• Bugfixes for SLES10
• Fix reboot notification for kernels
• Huge performance improvement on subsequent calls
• Fix kernel version detection fault in certain cases

0.15.0, Sun Mar 22 2009

• Support for SuSE 10.1 to 11.1
• Support install/skipping through interactive mode for packages on RemarkList
• Fix inconsistent cache after fou4s updating itself

0.14.1, Sun Jun 5 2006

• Fixes for 0.14.0
  • Fix kernel check to work every time, not only during the first run

0.14.0, Sun Jun 4 2006

• Changed rsync to follow symlinks
• Added support for CURL
• Added support for https proxies and other https fixes (mostly for business products)
• Warn if more than one kernel is installed, because reboot check won't work
• Fixes for 0.13.1
  • Use only files in SuSE "directory" files, not all that are found (--usedir)
  • Downloading of server list works again (--server -w)
  • Fix wrong cache invalidation on business products
  • Fix renaming of module directory for kernel backups
• New config file options:
  • UseCurl (default:off)
• New parameters
  • usecurl
  • proxydigest (digest authentication, only supported by curl!)

0.13.1, Tue May 31 2005

• Fixes for 0.13.0
  • SuSE-release passed the architecture with "_" as delimiter, which broke the x86_64 arch

0.13.0, Sun May 22 2005

• Fixes for 0.12.6
  • Kernel reboot notification improved
  • Fixed Import-/Export downloading already installed packages after second run
• Removed compatibility for SuSE versions older than 8.1
• Added new support for getting source RPMs (was useless/broken before)
• Added support for delta RPMs (SuSE 9.2+)

0.12.6, Sun Feb 6 2005

• Fixes for 0.12.5
  • The patch description generator generates correct architecture entries now (caused packman/supplementary packages to be ignored silently)
  • Many bugfixes regarding x86_64 packages (for both i586 and x86_64) (thanks to Christoph Thiel!)
  • After a kernel update the next patch description was not shown correctly
• Added config file option for "--usedir"
• GPG key checking updated to support gnupg 1.4 (thanks to Matthias Andree)

0.12.5, Sat Nov 13 2004

• Fixes for 0.12.4
  • SuSE 9.2 support (bash 3.0 compatibility, x86_64 handling)
  • Kernel backup had wrong name of modules directory
• Accept packages with valid RPM signature on SuSE 9.x

0.12.4, Tue Oct 26 2004

• Fixes for 0.12.3
  • Reboot notification was wrong for kernel 2.6.5-7.111
  • Fix kernel backup (wrong path was used -> no copying)

0.12.3, Sun Oct 3 2004

• Fixes for 0.12.2
  • Updates that require interactive mode could not be installed by entering "yes", only "y" worked
• Detect deleted files that are still in use on SuSE 9.x
• Suppress some error messages related to the new kernel backup feature
• Added auto detection of SLES 9, SLOX 4.1 and SuSE Standard-Server 8
• Tested with SuSE 9.2 beta

0.12.2, Tue Sep 14 2004

• Fixes for 0.12.1
  • The --auto option (used in cronjob) installed certain scripts without requiring interactive mode

0.12.1, Mon Sep 13 2004

• Fixes for 0.12.0
  • The --checkdeleted option was broken in 0.12.0
  • The kernel reboot reminder did not work on SMP machines
  • Servers with user:password in URL did not work (user alone worked, though)
  • Nagios script updated (thanks to Christoph Wegener)

0.12.0, Sun Sep 12 2004

• Security fix
  • Possible execution of SuSE-release script owned by a foreign user fixed (root must start fou4s from a directory where a foreign user has placed his SuSE-release script)
• Fixes for 0.11.3
  • Interactive mode honors scripts
  • SuSEconfig is now called with GID root (no longer GID fou4s)
  • Some inputs take now upper and lower case
  • Some scripts (fetchXXXfirmware) were missed, because they don't use "Prescript" but "Postscript"
• Remote host functionality improved
  • Export of scripts and packages with interactive mode (kernel updates!)
  • Renamed export.tar.gz to export.tar because it is not really gzipped
  • Packages that are found outside of the exporting server are correctly exported
• Check for kernel updates
  • Create backup of current kernel
  • Notify user to reboot machine after kernel update
• New config file options: KernelBackup, KernelCheck
• Support of ftp://user:pass@server/ urls for updates
• Removed fou4s from AutoList, so it won't automatically update itself if the cronjob is installed. If you are upgrading, this change has to be done manually in your /etc/fou4s.conf, because the old config file is preserved.
• Nagios plugin example script (By William Jacqmein)

0.11.3, Wed Mar 31 2004

• Fixes for 0.11.2
  • Wrong detection of AMD64 arch (typo, again!)
  • Ignoring of Ignore/Remarklist
  • RpmCache overrides ARCH given on commandline
  • Summary had wrong values for the "to download" column
• Added -z (compress) option to rsync calls

0.11.2, Tue Feb 3 2004

• Fixes for 0.11.1
  • Fix wrong run of SuSEconfig sometimes after --export
  • Fix bad GPG checking when exporting on SuSE 9.0 for an older SuSE machine
• Show unicode texts in patch descriptions properly (for german/french info). Thanks to Matthias Andree for this!
• Arch checking now also uses the "Series:" field in update descriptions (Mostly useful if you installed packages with other arch [e.g. i386] than newer SuSE packages [e.g. i586]);
• Fix for possible read failure of cache file when using --host
• Fix for wrongly using group fou4s in rpm pre/postinstall scripts when installing packages as root

0.11.1, Tue Jan 27 2004

• Fixes for 0.11.0
  • Wrong detection of AMD64 arch (typo)
  • Import of fou4s gpg key fails on fresh install

0.11.0, Sun Jan 25 2004

• Fixes for 0.10.0
  • Fix for possible endless loop
  • Fix bad handling of patch RPM's that don't fit to the current version
  • Fix for bad parsing of some update description files
• New options:
  • --cronworkstation, --cronserver: Install cronjob for server/workstation use
  • --import, --export: Manage offline machines with fou4s
  • --usedir: Use "directory" files (if directory listing of patches is forbidden)
• Fix exit codes (no conflict with sg anymore)
• Workaround for rpm 4.0 systems (behave like 3.x, not 4.1 from SuSE 9.0) (some hosting providers use that)
• Add detection of s/390 arch and United Linux
• Display of missing download amount in summary

0.10.0, Tue Oct 14 2003

• Fixes for 0.9.3
  • gpd.sh does no longer try to generate descriptions for nosrc.rpm files
  • Using --only no longer prevents previous version numbers to be shown
• New options:
  • --src: Source RPM download support (only SuSE 8.1 and higher)
  • --nocache: Disable update description cache
  • --cleancache: Clean up fou4s cache (normally not necessary)
  • --rightsok: Don't change GID and umask
  • --language: Choose language of info in update descriptions (e.g. german)
  • --limit: Limit download to given rate (in kbyte/sec)
  • --host: Compare RPM DB from another host with local update descriptions
  • --end: Install all packages at the end of the fou4s run at once
  • --nocheckdeleted: Don't check for deleted files still in use
  • --allnew: Show all updates, but not those that are already updated
• SuSE 9.0/RPM v4 compatible
• 2-level cache mechanism, resulting in a huge performance improvement for subsequent fou4s runs!
• Cache files are now collected in /var/cache/fou4s/.cache.$HOSTNAME
• Installation of RPM's that are signed with fully trusted keys is now possible
• No more attempts to download fully retrieved files
• No prompt for already complete downloads in interactive mode
• Fix packages like kdegraphics-3D, which were not detected properly (-3D was used as version and not as part of the package name)
• Change to group fou4s and make files group writeable by default
• RSync server support, automatic calling of gpd.sh from inside of fou4s. This makes gpd.sh obsolete for users.
• Support for SuSE 8.1/8.2 packages on one host (descr_packages fixed)
• New output formatting and summary
• SuSE-release detection is now in its own script, to make fou4s --host easier

0.9.3, Tue Apr 7 2003

• Fixes for 0.9.2
  • Fix wrong check for http auth username (for business product updates)
  • Fix typo when processing user specified RPM list
• This release is SuSE 8.2 compatible! (needed a small hack)
• New config file option AcceptPreinstallInfo (don't require interactive mode for preinstall information)
• Fix too verbose output during script execution

0.9.2, Tue Apr 1 2003

• Fixes for 0.9.1
  • A hang during checking for deleted files introduced in 0.9.1 was fixed

0.9.1, Mon Mar 31 2003

• Fixes for 0.9.0
  • Preinstall information in patch descriptions is handled correctly
  • Fixed a typo for a function call

0.9.0, Sun Mar 30 2003

• Fixes for 0.8.1
  • Buildtime option works again
  • Return code fixed to 0 in case of success
  • Fixed wrong arch detection for some packages (e.g. glibc) on SuSE 8.1
• New options:
  • --getpackagedescriptions: For FTP installs of SuSE 8.1
  • --only: Install only the given patches, don't check others
  • --noprogress: disable progress bar during checking
• Changed options:
  • --all doesn't do downloading anymore (use with -d for old behaviour)
• More than 50% Speed improvement
• Progress bar during checking
• Script support added
• Fou4s tries to show the service name (rc...) for delete files still in use
• A Logfile is now written for installed packages (/var/log/fou4s.log)
• Grouped install of all RPM's in one patch description, not all at once (minimizes dependency problems)
• Show update info for each patch description and not each single package
• Interactive mode allows to skip updates forever (only whole update, not single packages inside) and show description of update even if not in verbose mode.
• Improvements for network shared update trees (separate local cache directory)
• New config file parsing mechanism
• installed-patches file is now called skipped-patches.$HOSTNAME.$suseversion
• --proxyuser/--proxypass options work now
• Automatic detection of SuSE SLES 8 and SuSE Openexchange-Server 4
• The --server option preserves structure of fou4s.conf now better
• Many, many code cleanups and minor bugfixes

0.8.1, Sun Nov 3 2002

• Fixes for 0.8.0
  • Duplicate patch detection fixed
  • Packagenames with '+' are now handled correctly
  • More patch description files can be handled now (previously it reported "No patch descriptions found", if there were too many)
• Colored output
• New options:
  • --nocolor: Disable colored output

0.8.0, Tue Oct 29 2002

• Fixes for 0.7.4
  • More 8.1 fixes (KDE update)
  • installed-patches file had wrong format which made it useless
  • fou4s -l uses new technique for reading patch descriptions
  • Count of packages was wrong in interactive mode (cosmetical)
• New options:
  • --exclude: Skip specified patch description or series (wildcards supported!)
  • --nogenerated: Skip generated packages (from supplementary tree)
  • --product: For SuSE business products that are note auto-detected
  • --suseuser: Login name for business product updates
  • --susepasswd: Password for business product updates
• Support for SuSE business products (eMail-Server, SLES, etc.)
• Support for "supplementary" tree (KDE/GNOME/XFree updates) using gpd.sh With gpd.sh it should also be possible to update SuSE 7.0 again!
• Wildcard support in IgnoreList and RemarkList
• Show status of package in examination (ok or to be downloaded)
• Tell user to run fou4s -in to install downloaded patches from auto mode

0.7.4, Fri Oct 11 2002

• Fixes for 0.7.3
  • More 8.1 compatibility fixes
• New options:
  • --nopatchrpms: Avoid using patch rpm's on 8.1

0.7.3, Wed Oct 2 2002

• Fixes for 0.7.2
  • No more download of robots.txt
  • More than one parameter for -f now allowed (additional RPMs)
  • fou4s GPG key is imported into the rpm keyring for correct operation on 8.0
• SuSE 8.1 compatibility (format of patch description file changed!)

0.7.2, Fri Aug 30 2002

• Fixes for 0.7.1
  • Wrong "wget error 1" message bug fixed (different cause!)
  • Cache of server turned off for patch description download
  • Installation will no longer fail, if more than one server is configured

0.7.1, Thu Aug 29 2002

• Fixes for 0.7.0
  • Warning message about ftp_proxy, even if not set, fixed
  • Man page/cronjob-template cleanups
  • Wrong "wget error 1" message bug fixed
• Suppression of common wget error messages (that are no errors)
• The patches.cont directory is now only checked on SuSE 7.3
• Option --nocont changed to --patchescont

0.7.0, Tue Aug 27 2002

• Fixes for 0.6.1
  • Paths are now quoted to support paths with blanks (current dir. only)
• New options:
  • --checkdeleted: Check for deleted files that are still in use and exit
  • --nocompatible: behave like old fou4s, but not 100% like YOU (see man page)
  • --safemode: Disable install triggers
  • --arch, --suseversion: override detected values (for network distribution)
• Complete new version comparison mechanism and many other improvements by Lars Ellenberg <l.g.e@web.de>, THANKS!
• Honor UpdateOnlyInstalled flag like YOU does.
• Check for correct format of http_proxy environment variable
• The --all option supports -q now
• Pre- and postinstall information is displayed. Packages with preinstall information can only be installed in interactive mode
• The cronjob example cleans up the packagelist directory once a month (recommended)
• Missing version numbers in patch descriptions are now compensated by using the version number from filename (if existing).
• Better parsing of patch description files (several lines are now used as possible seperators)

0.6.1, Sat Jul 6 2002

• Fixes for 0.6.0
  • The -f option was processed wrong
  • Version numbers with different length are correctly compared now (e.g. 3.0 and 3.0.1)
  • Packages with CAPITAL LETTERS in the version number are compared correctly now (e.g. squid-2.4.STABLE3)

0.6.0, Wed Jun 5 2002

• Fixes for 0.5.0
  • Fixed error "too many arguments", if Auto= in config file was empty or not set
  • lsof now uses -n parameter to disable network resolution (faster!)
  • If there are installation problems, a recommendation for -a option is printed
  • "Need to download ... packages" counted packages from remarklist too
• Multiple Server support!! This should make multi-configfile hacks obsolete.
• /etc/fou4s.conf will not be overwritten anymore. The new version is now saved as /etc/fou4s.conf.rpmnew when updating. This behaviour will be kept as long as possible from now on.
• Fou4s public GPG key is now delivered with fou4s itself and not downloaded from the keyservers (some people behind proxies had problems with this).
• Support for patch.rpm files (has always worked, but now it's official ;)
• Use http://ftp.gwdg.de as default server, because ftp doesn't work with proxy and http is faster

0.5.0, Mon May 27 2002

• Fixes for 0.4.1:
  • UseFullPath installation fixed
  • Cleanup of packagelist directory fixed (missed some patch descriptions)
• Config file /etc/fou4s has been renamed to fou4s.conf
• New options: --proxy, --noproxy
• New option --all downloads all available updates (no checking) for network installations of fou4s).
• New option --auto: Automatic installation of packages specified in config file.
• Fou4s GPG key download moved from rpm installation to fou4s itself.

0.4.1, Tue May 21 2002

• Fixes for 0.4.0:
  • Removed forgotten debug output

0.4.0, Mon May 20 2002

• Fixes for 0.3.0:
  • Environment variable LANG is unset, because GPG sig check fails with non- english environment
  • Check if /etc/suseservers exists
• New options: --buildtime, --force, --fullpath, --version
• New config file options: CheckFou4s, UseFullPath, DefaultVerbosity, ProxyUser, ProxyPasswd, Interactive, PatchesCont, Benchmark, RemoveAfterInstall
• Downloaded files can now be placed in subdirectories (a1, n1, ...)
• The -f option supports more than one RPM now (if used as last option)
• Less messages with verbosity level 1 (-v), to see update info from cronjobs
• Update descriptions are formatted now for better readability
• New option handling with getopt, supporting now "-ab" in addition to "-a -b"
• Options -u and -e/-i are allowed together now (package list update and check/ installation in one step)

0.3.0, Thu May 10 2002

• Fixes for 0.2.1:
  • PHP update packages are available again (were filtered out due to a bad wget option)
  • Patch descriptions with missing number after Size: won't crash fou4s now
  • The "Provides" line in the patch descriptions is no good seperator either, we use "StartCommand" now.
  • The RemarkList option actually works now. Previously it disabled downloading of all packages after the first entry was found.
• All platforms are now supported (i386, sparc, ...):
  • RPM is now a noarch.rpm
• More information: Downloadsize of all packages (for -e)
• Packagelist directory is automatically cleaned from old patch descriptions
• New options:
  • --proxyuser and --proxypassword
  • --nocont, to disable checking of patches.cont directory on SuSE 8
  • -b, to use fou4s-benchmark and download from the fastest server.
  • --config, to use another config file (for different servers)
  • --checkfou4s, checks for an update of fou4s
• New version of fou4s-benchmark (by G. Sommer)
• The fou4s RPM is now signed with key fou4s@gaugusch.at (ID AFB66D7C)
  • Fou4s now supports updating itself, using the checkfou4s switch
  • New cron script with saner defaults
• Option parsing cleanups

0.2.1, Tue Apr 16 2002

• Bugfixes for 0.2.0:
  • Some patch descriptions for 8.0 and NVIDIA drivers contain no "Requires" line - fou4s uses the "Provides" line now for seperating packages.

0.2.0, Tue Apr 16 2002

• Bugfixes for 0.1.0:
  • Version comparison was broken! Using 0.0.4 mechanism again.
  • If gpg is not installed, an error is now given before package installation.

0.1.0, Sun Apr 14 2002

• Bugfixes for 0.0.4:
  • HTTP server and proxy support works now
  • RemarkList and IgnoreList can handle simple package names without version information
• FTP Benchmarking tool included (by Guenther Sommer <gue@rettung.at>)
• Better verbosity handling
• Litte re-structuring
• -l honors -o and -s option
• History from fou4s removed, because we have a changelog now
• Manual pages added
• Speed improvements

0.0.4, Wed Apr 10 2002

• Bugfix-Release for 0.0.3:
  • /etc/suseservers was updated without telling the user in help
  • If patch description says different version than downloaded RPM has, it was skipped. This is WRONG, fou4s compares now the downloaded RPM version with the installed RPM version, too.
• IgnoreList and RemarkList options in config file
• More wget options
• HTTP Server support

0.0.3, Sun Apr 7 2002

• MAJOR speed improvements
• RPMs are installed all at once, and not each seperately (makes dependency checking easier! In fact we don't do any dependency checking ;)
• Config file support (for server, pkgdescpath, rpmpath)
• Check for deleted files that are still in use after update
• Skip patches.cont directory for SuSE <= 7.2
• Interactive server selection (--server)
• User requested RPMs can be installed, too. (-f)
• List available RPMs (-l, this is for -f option)
• Cleanups ...

0.0.2, Tue Apr 2 2002

• New version comparison - 0.0.1 missed some updates!
• Interactive mode
• Global wget options (Christian Erpelding <che@ce-data.de>)
• GPG signature checking
• SuSEconfig is called after update
• New options: skip-optional, only-security, nodownload, remove-after-update, skip-gpg
• Handle more than one package in one patch description file
• "normal" option names like "-u" instead of "update"

0.0.1, Thu Mar 28 2002

• Initial release