Re: rpm-4.0.4 test release, take 0

[Ian Peters <itp ximian com>]

Hey Jeff,

I'm going to make it a priority to download and test Red Carpet with
this release as soon as I can.  Off hand, do you know of any binary
incompatibilities that may exists (ABI) between RPM 4.0.3 and 4.0.4?

Thanks for the heads up,

Ian

On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 20:23, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> 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
> 
> -- 
> Jeff Johnson	ARS N3NPQ
> jbj@jbj.org	(jbj@redhat.com)
> Chapel Hill, NC
> 
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