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About
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This is opkhelper, a collection of utilities to automate common tasks in
building distribution packages using opkbuild.

Included in opkhelper are programs to automatically work with package
build systems, fix file owners and modes, strip binary files, and
install files into binary packages, etc.

opkhelper is inspired by debhelper, a similar collection of programs for
Debian.

Here is the Web page for opkhelper:

    http://www.proteanos.com/dev/opkhelper/

Downloading
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Source archives are available in gzip, bzip2, or xz compression from the
ProteanOS files site by HTTP or FTP:

    http://files.proteanos.com/pub/opkhelper/3.0.0/
    ftp://files.proteanos.com/pub/opkhelper/3.0.0/

Here are the MD5 checksums:

    5292641a896cb3d45f26402287bbec84  opkhelper-3.0.0.tar.bz2
    90b23fe0c122b64cb66f2a2196507dd6  opkhelper-3.0.0.tar.gz
    d5ceb705dc5cc7c85d857f906462171b  opkhelper-3.0.0.tar.xz

Here are the SHA-256 checksums:

    cdee479ff971f6dca16a2abf0e0cab3f590a9dd6076cfe674f975655bce85736  opkhelper-3.0.0.tar.bz2
    d816869c605647e9d0474d139a46bc6aa3d0cb5c0b7e210b761dc1fcae691ef0  opkhelper-3.0.0.tar.gz
    1410cf8ed9d0b7350081d13b54a57436b7be8896a82c906f72dbb1023fd83978  opkhelper-3.0.0.tar.xz

The sources are maintained in a Git repository:

    http://git.proteanos.com/opkhelper/opkhelper.git/
    git://git.proteanos.com/opkhelper/opkhelper.git/

This release is marked by the "opkhelper-3.0.0" tag.

NEWS for Version 3.0.0
======================

Changes in this release:

  * The kbuild build system plugin now no longer guesses the wrong
    package-specific architecture name in certain cases.
  * opkhelper now includes its own (simpler and more robust) output and
    locale library modules and no longer depends on opkbuild's library.
    opkhelper can now be built without opkbuild being installed first.
  * Variable definitions are improved and enforced with "set -u".
  * The old and hard-to-maintain custom build system has been replaced
    with one generated with GNU Autoconf and Automake.
    - Library files are installed into subdirectories of datadir instead
      of into subdirectories of libdir (but still under /usr/local/share
      by default).
    - The "--with-multiarch-libdir" option has been replaced with a
      "--disable-multiarch-libdir" option.
  * tests/testlib.sh is now distributed in released archives.
  * NEWS now contains summaries of changes in each released version.
    ChangeLog is now populated with the Git commit log.
  * A helper configuration script is now installed to allow opkbuild
    3.0.0-beta3 or later to set up the build environment to use
    opkhelper.
    - The location of the helper configuration script can be set with
      the "--with-opkbuild-helpers=PATH" configure option.
    - The ProteanOS package containing the current version of opkhelper
      is named "opkhelper-3.0", so this helper configuration script will
      need to be renamed from "opkhelper" to "opkhelper-3.0" to build
      ProteanOS packages that depend on "opkhelper-3.0".

-- 
Patrick "P. J." McDermott
  http://www.pehjota.net/
Lead Developer, ProteanOS
  http://www.proteanos.com/