[CFT] jail-update 0.2.0-rc2 Ready for Testing

Posted by Jesco Freund at Oct. 10, 2009 4:35 p.m.

I am happy to announce that the second release candidate for the upcoming jail-update-0.2 release is ready for testing. You can grab the archive either from SourceForge or from my personal server (more convenient if you would like to download it using wget or fetch).

What's new? Most changes are not visible to users and only concern implementation internals. However, there are some major changes having a visible impact on the application behaviour:

• The new -n option prevents any escape sequences in the output of jail-update. This is useful if you would like to run jail-update in a non-interactive way (e. g. as a cron job) and redirect its output into a file, email or similar.
• Warnings and errors occurring entail a clearly visible, colour-coded output (amber for warnings, red for errors) – of course these colour markings get deactivated when run with the -n option…
• The unpredictable behaviour concerning the jail order should be fixed by now; jails are now always processed in ascending order of their numeric jail ID.
• The portmaster output indicating available port updates is more detailed now and contains the old version as well as the new one. Furthermore, the output is now grouped among the package classes used by portmaster (root, trunk, branch and leaf ports).

Please test this release candidate. Should you discover any issues, please let me know. Any feedback, particularly concerning the new output format, is welcome and will be taken into account.

Happy Testing!

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