SlackPack 0.3.0

During the week I released the new version 0.3.0 of SlackPack. After the efforts made in the past months I'm pleased to announce what was done compared to the previous 0.2.0 version:

• the status of the package determines whether it's obsolete or problematic. Problematic packages are removed from the repository;
• check for MD5 check sum;
• review of package's signature;
• the search engine could select only the newest packages;
• donations are not accepted (through Epay and MoneyBookers).

The details are as always in the ChangeLog file.

I've released SlackPack (at least)

After long delay at least I've released SlackPack - my site for my Slackware packages. The whole site is written in Perl with the use of Template and is like the popular software for bug tracking - Bugzilla. Naturally the idea is quite a lot different - a system for management of Slackware packages and repositories. However, for the moment the system is rather representative, because the administrative part is not ready at all. Only the public side, which presents the packages and give the possibility for download works and is available to the public. Currently SlackPack will offer its users:

• full packages information;
• possibility for review of the package contents;
• possibility for download;
• possibility for automatic update of a system from the repositories;
• quick search, advanced search and review of the packages by Slackware version or category;
• always current feeds, generated on the moment.

Unfortunately currently the site is only in English, but I hope the soon I'll have the time to localize it in Bulgarian, because a significant part of my packages are localized in Bulgarian and I don't want to cause difficulties to the users who don't use English. I have also lot of interesting ideas for the site development, but its all matter of future and enough free time. I hope the site will be liked both by the professionals as well as enthusiast working with one of the best distributions.

18-th in linuxpackages.net

Today I noticed, that I had took 18-th place in the Top Contributors list of linuxpackages.net - 48 packages. This, to some extent makes me happy, because the work on the creation of the packages is not easy, and is expensive. Although the created by me packages are build with scripts, the lack of generalized system for building of packages is still a minus for Slackware.

Unfortunately I still don't have the possibility to run my own site for Slackware packages, because I have no time remaining to complete the advanced search. My repositories currently contain around 130 packages of about 60 different software distributions, and this indices along with the space taken grow constantly.

This Saturday thanks to Vassil Kolev I managed to made mirror of the packages on marla.ludost.net. I hope this way they will be accessible even when I have problem with the Internet connection or the machine at home.