rpm-4.0.4 test release, take 0

[Jeff Johnson <jbj JBJ ORG>]

I've copied an initial build of rpm-4.0.4 packages at

	ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/test-4.0.4

There are packages for all supported Red Hat platforms there.

These packages have not been tested *AT ALL*, I'm getting my
ducks in a row for releasing rpm-4.0.4 in the next 7-10 days.

I am however interested in problem reports, in bugzilla please:

	http://bugzilla.redhat.com

particularly on non-i386 and non-linux platforms. I'm very certain that
there are gonna be build problems on non-linux platforms, as rpm now has
a hard wired
	LIBS=-lrt -lpthreads
in configure, and that can't possibly be right for non-linux platforms.

I'll try to get a description posted here on rpm-list of what has changed
in rpm-4.0.4 in the next day or two.

Meaanwhile, here's the CHANGES from rpm-4.0.4:

- turn off rpm-perl until it's self-hosting.
- jigger up rpm-python with python-2.2b2 for now.
- remove libtoolize from %%configure for now (#57039).
- teach find-requires to autogenerate GCC_3.0 dependencies.
- solaris: translate i86pc to i386 (#57182).
- fix: %GNUconfigure breaks with single quotes (#57264).
- look for PY_VERSION 2.2c1.
- fix: typo in find-requires.
- tru64 compiler message cleanup.
- add buildarch lines for hppa (#57728).
- sparc: make dbenv per-rpmdb, not per-dbi.
- handle lazy db open's in chroot with absolute path, not prefix strip.
- Depends should use CDB if configured.
- autodetect python 1.5/2.2.
- use db-4.0.14 final internally.
- make rpm-perl package self-hosting (#57748).
- permit gpg/pgp/pgp5 execs to be reconfigured.
- fix: signing multiple times dinna work, discard immutable region.
- remove poptmodule.so for separate packaging.
- permit subset installs for %lang colored hardlink file sets.
- missing key(s) on keyring when verifying a signature is now an error.
- remove dependency whiteout.
- calculate rpm-4.1 ordering/orientation metrics in rpmdepOrder().
- use beecrypt routines to calculate digests in rpm.
- dump legacy support for broken md5 signatures.
- sync popt and rpmio with rpm-4.1, rpmio has OpenPGP API.
- sync rpmdb and build with rpm-4.1, lots of splint annotations.
- add :armor and :base64 query format qualifiers for binary signatures.
- fix: query format qualifiers needed header.c merge.
- ppc64 arch added (#58634,#58636).
- turn on auto-generated perl requirements (#58519, #58536, #58537).
- add internal (customized) version of zlib.
- fix: %exclude functional (again).
- trap SIGILL for ppc64 inline asm voodoo fix from cross-dressed ppc32.
- rpm-perl: force numeric comparison on rpm version (#58882).
- fix: fancy hash fiddles if not a tty.
- fix: handle /.../ correctly in rpmCleanPath().
- transaction rollback code in rpmRollback().
- Red Hat 6.2 portability cruft.

73 de Jeff

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