New TruePackager2 Release

It's taken a good while to release this significant update to the packaging suite; but hopefully it will be worth it. This software package consists of over 35,000 lines of Perl code and around 200 pages of documentation; hence the time between releases!

As normal there are a whole host of fixes but some notable additional functionality too:

• The "tp2 list --namespaces --all" functionality will list the capabilities the current user has in the namespaces listed.

• A new "allow_list" capability has been added. This allows the system administrator to restrict UNIX permissions for a namespace, but still allows users access to view the content if they are allowed.

• The "tp2 show_ns" has been extended to show additional details, including namespace package signing requirements and also lists known DSA signatures for the namespace.

• The functionality offered by the TP2 daemon has been enhanced and so the install with "--diffs" works via the daemon and current repository settings are passed across for installs to.

If you've not come across TP2 now might be a time to look; it has been written to provide robust, audited package installation facilities aimed at corporations when require cross-environment deployments. It offers some unique features including "preview installs/removes", a complete audit log; flexible dependency handling; automatic file system growth; access control lists; flexible package signature enforcements; package bundles; atomic installs, etc.