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4.5_vs_4.5.1.

Changes in EPM 4.5

Dropped support for AIX, AT&T (Solaris), Tru64, HP-UX, IRIX, LSB, and Slackware packages.

"make install" failed due to the README filename changing (Issue #59)

The mkepmlist utility did not correctly handle filenames containing the $ character (Issue #62)

The configure script incorrectly substituted "NONE" for the installation prefix (Issue #67)

Fixed some over-zealous permissions on temporary build directories (Issue #71)

Fixed the mantohtml helper program - was depending on private CUPS headers for some reason (Issue #72)

Fixed some build system issues (Issue #75, Issue #76)

Documentation updates (Issue #74, Issue #77)

Cleaned up old sprintf and strcpy usage in many places.

Changes in EPM 4.4

The default prefix is now the usual /usr/local (Issue #45)

Really fix 64-bit Intel packages on Debian-based OS's (Issue #48)

Fixed a build issue on Solaris 11 (Issue #50)

Fixed a bug in temporary file cleanup when symlinks are used (Issue #51)

Added DESTDIR support to makefiles (Issue #55)

Fixed RPM support on AIX (Issue #56)

Reverted the hard links optimization from EPM 4.2 since it is causing problems with the latest version of RPM (Issue #57)

Packages on macOS now use "macos" as the operating system name for consistency.

Changes in EPM 4.3

Now use pkgbuild on newer versions of macOS, and added support for signed packages (Bug #497)

Fixed some file handling issues when creating RPM packages (Bug #523)

EPM now maps the x86_64 architecture to amd64 when creating Debian packages (Bug #295)

%format stopped working in EPM 4.2 (Bug #296)

%literal(spec) did not insert the literal content in the correct location (Bug #302)

Fixed some incorrect string handling (Bug #290)

Fixed a compatibility issue with RPM 4.8 (Bug #292)

Fixed a build dependency problem (Bug #291)

The EPM makefile now uses CPPFLAGS from the configure script (Bug #300)

Updated the standard path used by portable package scripts to include /usr/gnu/bin for Solaris (Bug #301)

Added support for %literal(control) in Debian packages (Bug #297)

Changes in EPM 4.2

EPM now supports a %arch conditional directive (STR #27)

EPM now uses hard links whenever possible instead of copying files for distribution (STR #21)

EPM no longer puts files in /export in the root file set for AIX packages (STR #15)

EPM did not work with newer versions of RPM (STR #23, STR #25)

EPM did not clean up temporary files from Solaris packages (STR #20)

Building Solaris gzip'd packages failed if the pkg.gz file already existed (STR #16)

Fixed handling of %preremove and %postremove for AIX packages (STR #22)

Fixed directory permissions in HP-UX packages (STR #24)

Removed unnecessary quoting of "!" in filenames (STR #26)

Added support for signed RPM packages (STR #19)

Added support for inclusion of format-specific packaging files and directives via a %literal directive (STR #5)

*BSD init scripts were not installed properly.

EPM now displays a warning message when a variable is undefined (STR #10)

*BSD dependencies on versioned packages are now specified correctly (STR #4)

EPM now uses /usr/sbin/pkg_create on FreeBSD (STR #2)

FreeBSD packages are now created with a .tbz extension (STR #1)

FreeBSD packages incorrectly assumed that chown was installed in /bin (STR #3)

Added support for an "lsb" package format which uses RPM with the LSB dependencies (STR #7)

The configure script now supports a --with-archflags and no longer automatically builds universal binaries on macOS.

The epm program now automatically detects when the setup GUI is not available, displays a warning message, and then creates a non-GUI package.

RPM packages did not map %replaces to Obsoletes:

Changes in EPM 4.1

macOS portable packages did not create a correct Uninstall application.

The temporary package files for portable packages are now removed after creation of the .tar.gz file unless the -k (keep files) option is used.

The RPM summary string for subpackages did not contain the first line of the package description as for other package formats.

The setup and uninst GUIs now support installing and removing RPM packages.

The setup GUI now confirms acceptance of all licenses prior to installing the first package.

Subpackages are no longer automatically dependent on the main package.

Multi-line descriptions were not embedded properly into portable package install/patch/remove scripts.

Updated the setup and uninstall GUIs for a nicer look-n-feel.

macOS portable packages now show the proper name, version, and copyright for the packaged software instead of the EPM version and copyright.

Fixed a problem with creation of macOS metapackages with the latest Xcode.

EPM now removes the individual .rpm and .deb files when creating a package with subpackages unless the -k option (keep files) is used.

EPM now only warns about package names containing characters other than letters and numbers.

EPM now generates disk images as well as a .tar.gz file when creating portable packages on macOS.

Changes in EPM 4.0

New subpackage support for creating multiple dependent packages or a combined package with selectable subpackages, depending on the package format.

Added support for compressing the package files in portable packages which reduces disk space requirements on platforms that provide gzip.

Added support for custom platform names via the new -m name option.

Added support for non-numeric %release values.

Added new --depend option to list all of the source files that a package depends on.

The setup GUI now sets the EPM_INSTALL_TYPE environment variable to the value of the selected TYPE line in the setup.types file.

Fixed NetBSD and OpenBSD packaging support by no longer using FreeBSD-specific extensions to pkg_create on those variants.

Fixed PowerPC platform support for RPM and Debian packages.

Many fixes to AIX package support.

Tru64 packages with init scripts now work when installing for the first time.

RPM file dependencies should now work properly.

Portable product names containing spaces will now display properly.