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From: Gilles Detillieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Saturday, December 11, 1999 6:44 AM
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] ht://Dig 3.1.4 RPMs for Red Hat
>I've just uploaded source and binary rpms for the ht://Dig 3.1.4 web
>site search engine to incoming.redhat.com, for eventual inclusion
>on contrib.redhat.com. I've also placed them on the htdig.org site,
>in http://www.htdig.org/files/binaries/. They can also be downloaded
>from the SCRC web site, at
>
> http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/htdig/rpms/
>
>This is the latest stable release and is recommended for all production
>servers.
>
>The following RPMs were built on Red Hat Linux 4.2, 5.0* and 6.0
respectively:
>
>htdig-3.1.4-0.i386.rpm
>htdig-3.1.4-0.sparc.rpm
>htdig-3.1.4-0.src.rpm
>htdig-3.1.4-0glibc.i386.rpm * (see note below)
>htdig-3.1.4-0glibc.src.rpm * (see note below)
>htdig-3.1.4-0glibc21.i386.rpm (for glibc-2.1, Red Hat 6.0)
>htdig-3.1.4-0glibc21.src.rpm (for glibc-2.1, Red Hat 6.0)
>
>Run /usr/sbin/rundig after installing, to (re)build all your databases.
>(A complete reindexing isn't necessary if you had htdig-3.1.2 previously
>installed, unless you want to take advantage of the new compound word
>indexing feature.)
>
> ----
>
>Name : htdig Distribution: (none)
>Version : 3.1.4 Vendor: (none)
>Release : 0 Build Date: Fri Dec 10 10:13:38
1999
>Install date: Fri Dec 10 12:05:04 1999 Build Host:
cliff.scrc.umanitoba.ca
>Group : Networking/Utilities Source RPM:
htdig-3.1.4-0.src.rpm
>Size : 3053918
>Packager : Gilles Detillieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>URL : http://www.htdig.org/
>Summary : A web indexing and searching system for a small domain or
intranet
>Description :
>The ht://Dig system is a complete world wide web indexing and searching
>system for a small domain or intranet. This system is not meant to replace
>the need for powerful internet-wide search systems like Lycos, Infoseek,
>Webcrawler and AltaVista. Instead it is meant to cover the search needs for
>a single company, campus, or even a particular sub section of a web site.
>
>As opposed to some WAIS-based or web-server based search engines, ht://Dig
>can span several web servers at a site. The type of these different web
>servers doesn't matter as long as they understand the HTTP 1.0 protocol.
>
> ----
>
>* Note to Red Hat 5.0 & 5.1 users:
>
>There's an obscure bug in vixie-cron on Red Hat 5.0 and 5.1 systems,
>in its SIGCHLD signal handling. It causes htmerge to fail consistently
>with a "Word sort failed" error, when run from a cron job. It could
>potentially cause similar problems with other jobs. I recommend upgrading
>to the latest vixie-cron from the 5.2 distribution updates:
>
>vixie-cron-3.0.1-37.5.2.alpha.rpm
>vixie-cron-3.0.1-37.5.2.i386.rpm
>vixie-cron-3.0.1-37.5.2.sparc.rpm
>vixie-cron-3.0.1-37.5.2.src.rpm
>
>They can be obtained from any Red Hat Linux update mirror site, or
>along with the htdig RPMs from my web site above.
>
> ----
>
> Release notes for htdig-3.1.4 9 Dec 1999
> This version cleans up some remaining bugs in the 3.1.3 release. As
> the latest stable release of ht://Dig, it is recommended for all
> production servers.
> * Fixed a nasty bug in URL parameter parsing, which was gobbling up
> bare ampersands (&) and CGI parameter names.
> * Fixed a bug where htdig would go into an infinite loop if an entry
> in local_urls, local_user_urls or server_aliases was
> missing the "=".
> * Fixed a bug in htsearch, where it failed when reading long queries
> via the POST method.
> * Fixed a bug in htdig, where it failed to close the connection
> after certain errors.
> * Fixed a bug that clobbered the hop count of initial documents.
> * Fixed bugs in HTML parser's handling of META tags. It no longer
> continues indexing meta tags when indexing is turned off for the
> document, and it no longer gets confused by punctuation in META
> descriptions and keywords.
> * Fixed a bug in the handling of the case_sensitive attribute, so
> that it's not limited to robots.txt parsing. Now, if false, it
> causes URLs to be mapped to lowercase, to avoid mixed case
> duplicates as expected.
> * HTML parser now indexes text in alt parameter of img tags, and
> calculates word locations more accurately than before.
> * Digging via the local filesystem can now be done even without an
> HTTP server running, and a few more file types can be indexed
> locally, without having to rely on the server.
> * Sender name in htnotify's e-mail messages is now quoted.
> * The external_parsers attribute is now extended to support
> external converters, to avoid a lot of the complications of
> writing external parsers.
> * Added support for several new configuration attributes:
> authorization, start_highlight, end_highlight,
> local_urls_only, page_number_separator, script_name,
> template_patterns, and valid_extensions.
> * The keywords input parameter to htsearch is now propagated to
> followup searches, as for other input parameters.
> * The query string can now be passed to htsearch as a single command
> line argument, for use in scripts.
> * Added better examples and comments in sample htdig.conf, and added
> boolean match type to sample search.html form.
> * The HTML parser in htdig now turns off indexing between <style>
> and </style> tags.
> * A variety of other bug fixes, and many documentation updates. See
> the ChangeLog for details.
> * Once again, thanks to everyone who reported bugs and bug fixes.
>
> The full ChangeLog for this release is available from:
> http://www.htdig.org/ChangeLog
>
>--
>Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW:
http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/~grdetil
>Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Phone: (204)789-3766
>Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) Fax: (204)789-3930
>
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