JFYI ----- Forwarded message from Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com> ----- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 11:20:47 +0200 (EET) From: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com> To: rpm-announce@lists.rpm.org, rpm-maint@lists.rpm.org Cc: lwn@lwn.net Subject: [Rpm-maint] RPM 4.8.0 released! We're pleased to announce the availability of RPM release 4.8.0. Download instructions and more detailed information are available from: http://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.8.0 Here's the executive summary of user-visible changes since RPM 4.7.x: General bugfixes and enhancements: * Fix ftp/http proxy options (RhBug:529214) (regression originating from 4.6.0) * Fix remote package retrieval in rpm2cpio (RhBug:523260) * Fix --tid and --querybynumber query selectors (regression originating from 4.6.0) * Fix extranuous dependency type characters in --filerequires/provides output * Fix package relocatability checking (broken since forever) * Fix --excludepath (RhBug:409637) * Fix verification result depending on verbosity level (RhBug:510213) * Fix filename starting with '-' treated as stdin * Fix --nodirtokens yet again (RhBug:546663) * Query error code fixes (SuseBug:527191) * Report multiple scriptlet dependency bits in deptype format extension * Permit user specified query formats to behave differently on rpm's verbosity level * Dependency information queries now return the dependency type too in verbose mode * New tag extensions: o DBINSTANCE (record number of installed packages) o HEADERCOLOR (multilib "color" of header) o EVR, NVR, NEVR, NEVRA, NVRA (convenience formatting of name, epoch, version, release and arch tags) o EPOCHNUM (epoch of header, returns 0 for no epoch) o VERBOSE (is rpm in verbose mode or not) * New format extensions: o :fstate (human readable file state information) o :vflags (human readable file verifyflags information) * Major speed improvement in file list queries (eg -qal) * Major speed improvements in installation dependency calculations * Error out early when trying to install to readonly filesystem (ticket #99, RhBug:464750) * Disk space problems are only reported for affected packages (RhBug:517418) * Skip %posttrans scriptlets of failed transaction elements * Package erasures are now ordered too (ticket #48) * Improved ordering of packages with dependency loops - loopy sets are now guaranteed to be installed together (ticket #51) * Install ordering now differentiates between "colored" dependencies, giving better order with multilib package sets * Handle Requires(pre,preun) ordering correctly on erasure * %_netsharedpath is evaluated for erasures too (RhBug:494640) * Validate rpmlib() dependencies on src.rpm install (RhBug:490613) * Various minor corner-case memory leaks fixed * Several documentation fixes (ticket #72, #63) * Several translation updates (Spanish, Portugese Brasilian, Polish, German, Japanese, French, Serbian) Package building: * Automatic extraction of OCaml dependencies * Automatic extraction of mime-handler provides from .desktop files * Automatic extraction of font provides * OSGi dependency generator fixes (ticket #101) * Extra options can be now specified and passed to dependency extractor scripts * %files now accepts multiple filelists through -f (ticket #70, RhBug:475359) * Use 444 permissions for all .debug files (RhBug:522194) * Handle .desktop files with spaces in filename (RhBug:520920) * Fix duplicate dependency checking on build (RhBug:490378) * Various commonly used Python macros added (ticket #83) * Support for multiple major python versions in brp-python-bytecompile * Packages can now have a separate bug reporting url by setting BugUrl in spec or through %_bugurl in macro configuration (RhBug:512774) * Fix %sources and %patches containing the same items multiple times (ticket #82) * Add default %clean section unless overridden in spec (ticket #81) * %patch macro supports new -d option (ticket #69) * New %make_install macro which does the right thing wrt modern autotools (ie "make install DESTDIR=...") * Unset CDPATH (and DISPLAY) environment variables on build-scripts * Always run build-scripts in C-locale * Don't set --target in %configure (RhBug:458648) * Fix segfault on %include of empty file * Add XZ and LZMA recompress support to brp-compress (ticket #84) * Correctly inherit default %attr(-,-,-) from %defattr (RhBug:515685) * Support DWARF-3 in debugedit (RhBug:505774) * Much stricter set of allowed characters in various tags like Name, Version etc (ticket #59, RhBug:493157) * PreReq and BuildPreReq are now officially deprecated, with warnings at build-time * PreReq is mapped to Requires(pre,preun) at build-time * Permit %ghost to be used on non-existent files (RhBug:495040) * Configurable changelog trimming in rpm files (ticket #47) * Error out on unsupported payload compressor (RhBug:495429) * Correctly handle "./" in file paths (RhBug:491388) * Various tweaks to the internal file classifier (RhBug:491349) * Handle XZ in %uncompress macro * New built-in %getconfdir macro for getting rpm configuration "home directory" * Support for signing with the ancient PGP has been removed * Backwards compatibility macros %{PACKAGE_VERSION} and %{PACKAGE_RELEASE} are no longer supported in spec. Use %{version} and %{release} instead. Changes since rpm-4.8.0-beta1: - Avoid noise from python bytecompile on non-python packages (RhBug:539635) - Avoid exposing libmagic dependency in public headers - Several refcount-error caused memory leaks in python bindings fixed - Move python transaction element refcounting back to C-level - Permit unexpanded macros in spec tags again (RhBug:547997) - Remove the internal-only disk-space related functions from public API - Hardwire lead major version to 3 (RhBug:546663) On behalf of the rpm-team, - Panu - _______________________________________________ Rpm-maint mailing list Rpm-maint@lists.rpm.org http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-maint ----- End forwarded message ----- --- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-softwaremgmt+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-softwaremgmt+help@opensuse.org