Hi, Since now, I will also periodically compute an ISO with all FDNPKG repositories. This makes it easy to download all the up to date packages in one file, burn it on a CD, and feed FDNPKG with on offline FreeDOS systems.
The ISO is here: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.1/repos Mateusz On 06/19/2013 10:07 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm happy to announce the release of a new version of my FreeDOS package > manager - FDNPKG v0.94. > > Big changes: this new version brings support for offline (on disk) > repositories, and update features (FDNPKG is able to update itself now). > > Exact changelog below: > > FDNPKG v0.94 [19 Jun 2013] > - [fix] FDNPKG is quitting if networking (Watt32) fails to initialize > (was trying to continue anyway, possibly leading to crashes), > - [new] added support for on-disk package repositories, > - [new] added the 'showinstalled' action (display the list of > installed packages), > - [new] added the 'checkupdates' action (checks for availability of > updates for installed packages), > - [new] added the 'update' action (updates given package to newer > version from repositories), > - [new] added support for custom configuration file location via the > FDNPKG.CFG environment variable. > > Since now, FDNPKG is not requiring networking anymore to be useful - one > could imagine burn a CD with latest packages, and use it to update any > offline FreeDOS system. Or even use FDNPKG to install a whole FreeDOS > system from scratch. > > FDNPKG is available at the usual place: > http://www.viste-family.net/mateusz/software/fdnpkg/ > > cheers, > Mateusz > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: > > Build for Windows Store. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
