Fedora 9 Update: rpm-4.4.2.3-3.fc9

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-11390
2008-12-17 03:34:14
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Name        : rpm
Product     : Fedora 9
Version     : 4.4.2.3
Release     : 3.fc9
URL         : http://www.rpm.org/
Summary     : The RPM package management system
Description :
The RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a powerful command line driven
package management system capable of installing, uninstalling,
verifying, querying, and updating software packages. Each software
package consists of an archive of files along with information about
the package like its version, a description, etc.

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ChangeLog:

* Fri Dec 12 2008 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at redhat.com> 4.4.2.3-3
- abort transaction on python callback crash
- package signing fixes (#442761, #463482)
- fix uncompress macro wrt bzip
- force cloexec all open descriptors on scriptlet execution
- make find-lang --with-man brp-compress friendly
- handle headerLoad() failure in rpmReadHeader() correctly
- fix --nodirtokens build option (#462391)
- drop no longer necessary jar.so.debug kludge (#442264)
- remove buggy, i386-specific RDTSC timing code (#435309)
- fix retrieval of multiple package through a proxy (#450205)
- ensure default SIGPIPE handler for --pipe (#444389)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #442761 - *** glibc detected *** /usr/lib/rpm/rpmk: free(): invalid next size (normal): 0x0000000001f5fee0 ***
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=442761
  [ 2 ] Bug #463482 - rpm signing cannot be checked on openoffice.org upstream packages
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463482
  [ 3 ] Bug #462391 - Cannot creative legacy packages: --nodirtokens still broken
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=462391
  [ 4 ] Bug #442264 - Don't exempt *.jar.so.debug from buildroot checks
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=442264
  [ 5 ] Bug #435309 - Floating point exception sometimes when running rpm
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435309
  [ 6 ] Bug #450205 - rpm --httpproxy can't handle multiple rpm packages
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450205
  [ 7 ] Bug #444389 - rpm broken pipe error
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=444389
  [ 8 ] Bug #440994 - [PATCH] Make find-lang.sh --with-man brp-compress friendly
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=440994
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update rpm' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
http://fedoraproject.org/keys
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