Hello,
it's been a long time since the last jigdo release, more than a year!
For various reasons, I haven't had as much time as before to dedicate to it
- still, development never stopped completely, and I'm looking forward to
continuing to support and develop it.
This is mostly a bugfix release. Most important news:
- Includes a workaround for big files (DVD images) with GCC 3.0 to 3.3.
This allows DVD support for some non-i386 Debian arches, and makes it no
longer necessary to compile with GCC 2.95 for DVD support.
- DVD support for Windows! However, this is UNTESTED (due to lack of
space on my Windows partitions) - please test and report about
success/failure! (CD image creation tested and working.)
- Numerous bugfixes
- Quite some work on the GUI, but it's still not usable
New official .deb packages will take until Wednesday or so - this has been
a busy weekend... :)
Jigdo homepage: <http://atterer.net/jigdo/>
Source code: <http://atterer.net/jigdo/jigdo-0.7.1.tar.bz2>
Statically linked binary: <http://atterer.net/jigdo/jigdo-bin-0.7.1.tar.bz2>
Windows binary: <http://atterer.net/jigdo/jigdo-win-0.7.1.zip>
Downloading Debian CDs: <http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/>
The detailed changelog entry:
- Workaround for problems with big files (DVD images) when compiling
with GCC 3.0 to 3.3.
- Fix for Windows version: "wget: BUG: unknown command `timeout'" no
longer occurs (was spurious anyway, but irritated many people)
- Windows version compiled with GCC 3.4, can hopefully create big
files (DVD images)
- removed "too many files missing, won't attempt to download them
from fallback mirror" logic in jigdo-lite because it was broken
- .jigdo file format: Semantics of multiple [Image] sections have
changed: Formerly, the idea was that one .jigdo could provide
multiple images, but the idea never caught on and the idea "one
.jigdo => one image" is firmly planted in people's minds now. The
original incentive of allowing multiple [Image] sections was to
make it possible to avoid duplication of .jigdo data, by providing
all 7 CDs and the single DVD in one .jigdo. This duplication can
now be avoided by [Include]ing the CDs' files from the DVD's,
because all except the first [Image] section are ignored.
- Fixed minor bug in jigdo-lite; it would sometimes abort even if no
error code was returned by jigdo-file
- GUI: Added code for processing of .jigdo files and [Include]
- GUI: Added simple caching of downloaded data during .jigdo
downloads
- Bugfix for "jigdo-file make-image" (Steve McIntyre): Failed
assertion `nextAlignedOff>off' and huge .template with >4GB image.
- Bugfix for "jigdo-file make-template": Sometimes *incorrectly*
reports: "You have found a bug". (Maxim Reznik)
- Bugfix for "jigdo-file make-image": Handle I/O errors more
gracefully (Brian Bennett)
- Bugfix for "jigdo-file make-image" (Andreas Krüger): Do not
allocate on the stack an array whose size is the number of matched
files in the image. This gave, er, "funny" results with tens of
thousands of matches... <slap>
- Added comfortable debugging aids ("debug(fmt,...)", --debug=...)
- Various documentation updates (manpages, Hacking.txt, changelog;-P)
- Fix for build problems if size_t is 64 bits wide
- Various fixes to allow compilation with GCC 3.4
- Added unit tests for many parts of the code, with support in
depend.awk
- Fixed bug in html-beautify.awk
- Vanity meter reports 26000 lines of code in 120 files
Have fun!
Cheers,
Richard
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