About
Zenpakt or ZENwalk PAcKage Tools is a complete rewrite of the Slackware pkgtools in BASH.Some of improvements that have been made are:
- database locking to prevent parallel run
- backup of files being overwritten or removed for restoration in cases like error in processing packages and interrupts
- improved option and argument handling
- improved handling of spaces and other characters in package names and directory names and other inputs.e.g. upgradepkg "downloaded packages/foo.txz" doesnot break
- upgradepkg no longer calls installpkg and removepkg for each package but makes use of the new shared functions to call functions directly to install and remove.
- new options in removepkg and upgradepkg to have more control on what gets removed or upgraded
- improved handling of filenames with escaped quoting used by tar-1.13 and later tars.
See the man pages for more detail about each commands' new features.
