gfs
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gfs (GNU From Scratch) is a simple timestamp-based package management
system, consisting of the three scripts gfsadd, gfsdel, and gfscheck.
Information about packages are kept in the directory /usr/share/gfs.

The project homepage is http://www.freecode.dk/software/index.html. Current
version is 0.1.

gfs is written by Henrik S. Hansen <hsh@freecode.dk>, and released
under the GNU General Public License.  See the file named COPYING.
The man pages are available under the modified BSD license.


News
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2004-10-26: Version 0.1 released.


Files
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README
Makefile
COPYING
gfsadd
gfsdel
gfscheck
gfsadd.8
gfsdel.8
gfscheck.8


Installation
------------

Check the makefile.  You may want to alter the GFSDIR, MANDIR and
BINDIR variables.  If you change GFSDIR, be sure to run 'make' or
'make fix-gfsdir'.

Then simply run 'make install'.


Portability
-----------

gfsadd, gfsdel and gfscheck should be sh and POSIX compliant.
However, they have only been checked with Bash as the interpreter.

gfs is made on GNU/Linux, but should work on other Unixes.


Bugs and Problems
-----------------

The path to the logfiles, /usr/share/gfs, is hardcoded in both the
code and the docs.  The Makefile works around this by a sed
substitution.  This could be handled better.
