[Rpm-announce] RPM 4.11.0 beta1 released

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at redhat.com
Tue Dec 11 09:48:23 UTC 2012


As nothing out of the ordinary has come up, here comes 4.11 beta, well 
on schedule. There aren't any big changes since alpha, just various 
minor tweaks and fixes here and there, including those that went into 
4.10.2. Here's a brief summary of changes between 4.11 alpha and beta:

- Fix signature checking (regression introduced in 4.10.0)
- Fix --setperms (regression introduced in 4.10.0)
- Fix double-free on %caps in spec (regression introduced in 4.11 alpha)
- Fix rpm2cpio.sh locale dependent behavior (breakage) with gawk >= 4.0
- Fix disk-space accounting wrt intermediate space requirement during
   transaction on update and forced replace
- Fix disk-space accounting wrt inodes (broken since forever)
- Fix special %license files not getting marked as RPMFILE_LICENSE
- Add --undefine cli-switch for undefining macros from the cli
- Add --licensefiles cli-switch for querying license files
- Add $RPM_CONFIGDIR/macros.d/ directory to default macro path
- Various NSS-related cleanups and minor improvements


As usual, the full details and download information can be found in the 
(draft) release notes at http://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.11.0

On behalf of the rpm-team,

	- Panu -


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