v5.45

pkgmk v5.45 - Release Notes

A documentation-heavy release focusing on consistent manual pages, synchronized CLI usage output, and incremental improvements to pkgmk’s behaviour, messages, and code structure.

Changes

Manual Pages

• Broad cleanup and standardization across all pkgmk* man pages (scdoc).
• SYNOPSIS refactors, uniform option descriptions, improved SEE ALSO references.
• Multiple refinements to pkgmk(8), pkgmk.conf(5), pkgmk.Pkgfile(5), pkgmk.md5sum(5), pkgmk.footprint(5), pkgmk.nostrip(5), and pkgmk.32bit(5).
• Improved clarity around exit statuses; added 126/130, E_INTERRUPT, E_CMDEXEC, and updated documentation accordingly.
• Cleaned markup, fixed references, improved formatting for readability and consistency.
• Added missing man page skeletons and new content where necessary.

CLI & Behaviour

• Usage output updated and synced with manual pages; now fits 72-column width.
• Fixed inverted --no-strip logic.
• Improved error, warning, and info messages.
• Relative path resolution fixes for -c / -f.
• More robust interruption handling with explicit work-directory cleanup.
• Minor internal refactoring, function reordering, and comment improvements.
• Added support to build packages without system config (more predictable behaviour for isolated builds).

Code Quality & Infrastructure

• Major inline code documentation pass over pkgmk.in.
• Removed obsolete lint targets; updated workflows to match.
• Added release target and SUBDIRS-based recursion.
• Cleanup of .gitignore entries for src/ and man/.
• Introduced extra/genchangelog.sh for future changelogs making.
• README refinements: updated requirements, man page references, and general cleanup.
• Updated COPYRIGHT years.

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Full Changelog: v5.44...v5.45