rpm-4.0.3 released (finally)

[Jeff Johnson <jbj JBJ ORG>]

Rpm 4.0.3 is now available (finally) at

	ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-4.0.x/rpm-4.0.3-*

The final part of the release (5x, 6x, 7x) indicates the version
of Red Hat Linux for which the package has been built. For example,
the i386 packages for Red Hat 6.2 are
	rpm-4.0.3-6x.i386.rpm
	rpm-devel-4.0.3-6x.i386.rpm
	rpm-build-4.0.3-6x.i386.rpm
	rpm-python-4.0.3-6x.i386.rpm
	popt-1.6.3-6x.i386.rpm

This is the last version of rpm that will be built for Red Hat 5.x.

This version is also available through anonymous cvs:
	cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.rpm.org:/cvs/devel login
	(no password, just carriage return)
	cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.rpm.org:/cvs/devel get rpm
	cd rpm
	cvs up -r rpm-4_0_3-release
You will need the versions of libtool, autoconf, and automake identified
in autogen.sh if you wish to build from CVS.

rpm-4.0.3 has an internal copy of Berkeley db-3.3.11, so you no longer
need to install/upgrade db3 packages. OTOH, support for db-1.85 databases
has been removed, only db3 format is supported. In order to upgrade from
db1 format you should
	1) Immediately do a "rpm --rebuilddb".
	2) Install the *-6x or *-5x rpm packages. Don't forget popt.
	3) Do another "rpm --rebuilddb" to convert from db1 -> db3 format.

Most (all that I've seen and been able to fix) database corruption problems
are addressed in rpm-4.0.3, so try that first.

Please report any difficulties, problems, issues, feature requests, whatever at
	http://bugzilla.redhat.com

Here's the CHANGES file for rpm-4.0.3:
=============================================================================
4.0.2 -> 4.0.3:
	- update per-interpreter dependency scripts, add sql/tcl (#20295).
	- fix: rpmvercmp("1.a", "1.") returned -1, not +1 (#21392).
	- add cpuid asm voodoo to detect athlon processors.
	- add %exclude support (i.e. "everything but") to %files.
	  (Michael (Micksa) Slade" <micksa@knobbits.org>)
	- add --with/--without popt glue for conditional builds(Tomasz Kloczko).
	- python: strip header regions during unload.
	- add -g to optflags in per-platform config.
	- permit confgure/compile with db3-3.2.9.
	- permit manifest files as args to query/verify/install modes.
	- fix: parameterized macro segfault (Jakub Bogusz <qboosh@pld.org.pl>)
	- fix: i18n tags in rpm-2.5.x had wrong offset/length (#33478).
	- fix: AIX has sizeof(uint_16) != sizeof(mode_t) verify cast needed.
	- fix: zero length hard links unpacked incorrectly (#34211).
	- fix: --relocate missing trailing slash (#28874,#25876).
	- fix: --excludedoc shouldn't create empty doc dir (#14531).
	- fix: %_netsharedpath needs to look at basenames (#26561).
	- fix: --excludepath was broken (#24434).
	- fix: s390 (and ppc?) could return CPIOERR_BAD_HEADER (#28645).
	- fix: Fwrite's are optimized out by aggressive compiler(irix) (#34711).
	- portability: vsnprintf/snprintf wrappers for those without (#34657).
	- more info provided by rpmdepOrder() debugging messages.
	- merge (compatible) changes from top-of-stack into rpmlib.h.
	- cpio mappings carry dirname/basename, not absolute path.
	- fix: check waitpid return code.
	- remove support for v1 src rpm's.
	- re-position callbacks with ts/fi in cpio payload layer.
	- state machines for packages (psm.c) and payloads (fsm.c)
	- add --repackage option to put erased bits back into a package.
	- fix: (ppc) copy va_list in loop (#36845).
	- cpanflute perl dependency needs explicit epoch (#37034).
	- regenerate rpm.8 man page from docbook glop (in max-rpm).
	- lib/depends.c: diddle debugging messages.
	- fix: readlink return value clobbered by header write.
	- fix: ineeded count wrong for overlapped, created files.
	- globalize _free(3) wrapper in rpmlib.h, consistent usage throughout.
	- internalize locale insensitive ctype(3) in rpmio.h.
	- boring lclint annotations and fiddles.
	- transaction iterator(s) need to run in reverse order on pure erasures.
	- erasures not yet strict, warn & chug on unlink(2)/rmdir(2) failure.
	- more boring lclint annotations and fiddles.
	- yet more boring lclint annotations and fiddles.
	- still more boring lclint annotations and fiddles.
	- enough lclint annotations and fiddles already.
	- fix: specfile queries with BuildArch: (#27589).
	- fix: debugging message displays header keys (#38454).
	- use internal db-3.2.9 sources to build by default.
	- don't build db1 support by default.
	- create rpmdb.la so that linkage against rpm's db-3.2.9 is possible.
	- rpm database has rpm.rpm g+w permissions to share db3 mutexes.
	- expose more db3 macro configuration tokens.
	- move fprint.[ch] and hash.[ch] to rpmdb directory.
	- detect and fiddle incompatible mixtures of db3 env/open flags.
	- add DBI_WRITECURSOR to map to db3 flags with CDB database model.
	- add rpmdbSetIteratorRewrite to warn of pending lazy (re-)writes.
	- harden rpmdb iterators from damaged header instance segfaults.
	- add cron/logrotate scripts to save installed package filenames.
	- upgrade to db-3.3.4.
	- fix: filter duplicate package removals (#35828).
	- add armv3l arch.
	- fix: i18n strings need 1 on sucess return code (#41313).
	- fix: skip %ghost files when building packages (#38218).
	- headerFree() returns NULL, _free is C++ safe.
	- remove all header region assertion failures, return NULL instead.
	- perform db->verify when closing db files.
	- eliminate db-1.85 and db-2.x configuration.
	- fix: popt arg sanity checks broken, optarg != optArg.
	- fix: popt range checks on floats/doubles broken.
	- popt: return POPT_ERROR_ERRNO on config open/read/close failure.
	- fix: popt exec doesn't add '--', --target et al no longer need '='.
	- fix: popt consume-next-arg "!#:+" w/o side effect (#41956).
	- fix: for busted db1, attempt chain reconnection to following record.
	- return multiple suggested packages
	  (Pawel Kolodziej <pawelk@pld.org.pl>).
	- fix: return suggested packages when using Depends cache.
	- merge sparc64/ia64 fiddles back into linux.{req,prov}.
	- automagically generate perl module dependencies always.
	- fix: lclint fiddles broke uCache initialization (#43139).
	- always use db cursors.
	- permit duplicates for btree indices.
	- document build modes in rpmbuild.8, rpmbuild is born.
	- default to dbenv with mpool, --rebuilddb with nofsync is much faster.
	- fix: QUERY_FOR_LIST file count clobbered.
	- create top level rpmcli API, factor top level modes into popt tables.
	- popt: add POPT_BIT_SET/POPT_BIT_CLR to API.
	- autogen.sh checks for latest libtool-1.4 and automake-1.4-p2.
	- rpm --verify reports failure(s) if corresponding tag is not in header.
	- rpm --verify honors %config(missingok), add -v for legacy behavior.
	- remove dead code frpm popt table reorg.
	- more CLI typedefs/prototypes moved from rpmlib.h to rpmcli.h.
	- rpm --verify skips files in non-installed states.
	- rpm --verify skips content checks for %ghost files.
	- rpm --verify displays config/doc/gnost/license/readme atrrs for files.
	- rpm --verify checks immutable header region digest if available.
	- rpmbuild adds header region digest (SHA1 as string).
	- use rpmTag* typedefs in new hge/hae/hme/hre header vectors.
	- remove rpmrc Provides: Yet Again, use virtual packages.
	- dump cursor debugging wrappers.
	- rpm --verify can disable rpmFileAttr checks.
	- add rpmdbSetIteratorRE() for regex matching in database iterators.
	- permit rpm -qa to take RE args applied to name tag.
	- permit dbiFindMatches() to use version/release patterns.
	- eliminate all uses of rpmdbSetIterator{Version,Release}.
	- fix: db1 end-of-file not detected in legacy compatible way.
	- fix: remove (harmless) chown error message from %post.
	- add --target/--host to %configure, add example cross-build/config.site
	  scripts to /usr/lib/rpm <arjanv@redhat.com> (#44581).
	- rpmdb iterator selectors permit default/strcmp/regex/glob matching.
	- rpmdb iterator selectors permit negative matches.
	- alpha: don't add "()(64bit)" dependency markers.
	- ia64/sparc: <arch>.{req,prov} identical to linux.{req,prov}.
	- add "rpmlib(ScriptletInterpreterArgs)" to track
	    %post -p "/sbin/ldconfig -n /usr/lib"
	  incompatibilities.
	- popt: add POPT_ARGFLAG_SHOW_DEFAULT to display initial values(#32558).
	- popt: add POPT_CONTEXT_ARG_OPTS for all opts to return 1 (#30912).
	- fix: fsm reads/writes now return error on partial I/O.
	- fix: Ferror returned spurious error for gzdio/bzdio.
	- check for API/ABI creep, diddle up some compatibility.
	- preliminary abstraction to support per-header methods.
	- finalize per-header methods, accessing headerFoo through vector.
	- make package ordering loop messages debug, not warning.
	- remove {ia64,sparc}-linux.{prov,req}, changes merged into linux.*.
	- fix: partial sets of hardlinked files permitted in payload.
	- fix: mark rpmdb files with %config to prevent erasure on downgrade.
	- work around a (possible) compiler problem on ia64.
	- fix: rpm -qlv link count for directories dinna include '..'.
	- fix: rpm -qlv size for directories should be zero.
	- add --noghost to filter non-payload files from rpm -qlv output.
	- add %{_gnu} macro to append "-gnu" to %{_target_platform} to
	  support --target/--host flavored %configure. Legacy behavior
	  available by undefining %{_gnu}.
	- propagate %{_gnu} to per-platform configuration.
	- fix: parameterized macros with massive mumber of options need
	  "optind = 1" "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@alt-linux.org>.
	- add athlon per-platform configuration.
	- remove executable bit to disable autogenerated perl requires until
	  perl provides can be vetted.
	- disable per-platform %%configure use of %%_gnu until libtool package
	  stabilizes.
	- fix: permit partially enumerated hardlink file sets during build.
	- fix: resurrect rpm signature modes.
	- fix: sanity checks on #tags (<65K) and offset (<16Mb) in header.
	- fix: add -r to useradd to prevent /etc/skel glop (#46215).
	- fix: disambiguate typedef and struct name(s) for kpackage.
	- update intl dirs to gettext-0.10.38.
	- fix: sanity check for header size added in headerCopyLoad() (#46469).
	- fix: redundant entries in file manifests handled correctly (#46914).
	- map uid/gid from metadata into payload headers.
	- add removetid to header during --repackage.
	- expose rpmShowProgress() and rpmVerifyDigest() in rpmcli.h.
	- portability: avoid st_mtime, gendiff uses basename, etc (#47497).
	- glibc-2.0.x has not __va_copy().
	- popthelp.c: don't use stpcpy to avoid portability grief (#47500).
	- permit alias/exec description/arg text to be set from popt config.
	- python: rhnLoad/rhnUnload to check header digest.
	- package version now configureable, default v3.
	- rename rpm libraries to have version with libtool -release.
	- fix: -i CLI context broken Yet Again.
	- unlink all __db.nnn files before 1st db open.
	- python bindings should not segfault when fed bad data.
	- fix: adjust arg count for --POPTdesc/--POPTargs deletion.
	- add linux per-platform macro %_smp_mflags <sopwith@redhat.com>.
	- document more popt aliases for --help usage.
	- remove --tarbuild from man page(s), use -t[abpcils] instead (#48666).
	- fix: scope multi-mode options like --nodeps correctly (#48825).
	- isolate cdb access configuration (experimental, use at your own risk).
	- fix: hard fail on locked dbopen if CDB locking not in use.
	- fix: dbconfig with mp_mmapsize=16Mb/mp_size=1Mb for
	  "everything ENOSPC" failure check.
	- fix: don't total hard linked file size multiple times (#46286).
	- add %dev(type,major,minor) directive to permit non-root dev build.
	- fix: _smp_flags macro broken.
	- python: bind rhnUnload differently.
	- fix: rescusitate --querytags.
	- fix: short aliases broken (#49213).
	- python: "seal" immutable region for legacy headers in rhnUnload() .
	- python: add poptmodule.so bindings.
	- fix: %dev(...) needs to map rdev and mtime from metadata.
	- resurrect --specedit for i18n.
	- fix: 4 memory leaks eliminated.
	- fix: yet another segfault from bad metadata prevented.
	- add sha1 test vectors, verify on ix86/alpha/sparc.
	- add (but disable for now) rpm-perl subpackage from Perl-RPM.
	- python: parameterize with PYVER to handle 1.5 and/or 2.1 builds.
	- add build dependency on zlib-devel (#49575).
	- enable rpm-perl subpackage.
	- add pmac/ppciseries/ppcpseries varieties to ppc arch family.
	- include tdigest.c tkey.c and trpmio.c to "make dist".
	- re-enable dependency resolution source from package NVR.
	- rename pmac to ppcmac.
	- ia64: revert -O0 compilation.
	- upgrade to db-3.3.11 final.
	- fix: don't segfault when presented with rpm-2.4.10 packaging (#49688).
	- fix: --noscripts is another multimode option.
	- add tmpdir to configure db3 tmpdir into chroot tree.
	- permit lazy db opens within chroot.
	- fix: diddle dbenv path to accomodate backing store reopen in chroot.
	- add support for mips (#49283).
	- add __as, _build_arch, and __cxx macros (#36662, #36663, #49280).
	- detailed build package error messages.
	- fix: i18n tags not terminated correctly with NUL (#50304).
	- add explicit casts to work around a s390 compiler problem.
	- fix: autoconf glob tests (#50845).
	- portability: some compilers squawk at return ((void) foo()) (#50419).
	- remove fdFileno() from librpmio, use inline version instead (#50420).
	- fix: linux find-requires needs quotes around [:blank:].
	- remove /var/lib/rpm/__db* cache files if %__dbi_cdb is not configured.
	- python: add hiesenbug patch.
	- add legacy (compile only) wrappers for fdFileno et al.
	- add -D_REENTRANT (note rpmlib is still not thread safe).
	- fix: segfault on headerFree given malicious data.
	- fix: don't verify hash page nelem.
	- better error messages for verification failures.
	- include directory /usr/lib/rpm in rpm package.
	- always use dl size in regionSwab() return.
	- ppc: revert ppcmac to ppc.
	- ppc: autoconf test for va_copy.
	- python: add exception to detect bad data in hdrUnload.
	- change dir creation message from warning to debug for now.
	- verify perms (but not mode) on %ghost files.
	- headers without RPMTAG_NAME are skipped when retrieved.
	- within a region, entries sort by address; added drips sort by tag.
	- fix: error message on failed package installs resurrected.
	- python: memory leaks in headerLoad/headerunload bindings.
	- python: retrofit sha1 digest using RPMTAG_SHA1RHN.
	- python: change rhnUnload bindings.
	- python: teach rhnLoad about RPMTAG_SHA1RHN as well.
	- fix: Provides: /path did not work with added packages (#52183).
	- fix: progress bar scaling did not include source rpm count.
	- fix: hash page nelem failure to verify.
	- fix: initialize "verify" transaction stepName with -vv (#53582).
	- fix: ftp remote globs broken (#46892).
	- popt: clarify X consortium license in popt.3 man page.
	- close/discard Depends index after rpmdepCheck() use.
	- lclint-3.0.0.15 fiddles.
	- fix: harmless typo in db3 chroot hack.
	- fix: big-endian's with sizeof(time_t) != sizeof(int_32) mtime broken.
	- fix: add Korean message catalogs (#54473).
	- add RPHNPLATFORM and PLATFORM tags.
	- rpm-4.0.3 released.

-- 
Jeff Johnson	ARS N3NPQ
jbj@jbj.org	(jbj@redhat.com)
Chapel Hill, NC