RPM 4.18.1 released!

[Miro Hrončok]

On 14. 03. 23 12:27, Michal Domonkos wrote:
> This is a bug fix release addressing a number of regressions and other issues.
> Highlights include:
> 
>      * Preserve packages bit-by-bit when adding and then removing signatures
>      * Fix install of block and character special files
>      * Disable debuginfod server lookups during package builds
>      * Plugin fixes (fapolicyd and selinux)
>      * Various OpenPGP and macro parser fixes
> 
> Details and download info at
> 
>      https://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.18.1

Hello.

 > Restore BuildRequires check in rpmbuild -bp (regression in 4.15.0)

Does this mean I cannot run rpmbuild -bp (and hence e.g. fedpkg prep in Fedora) 
without installing all the build dependencies? Or did I understand that wrongly?


 > Issue a deprecation warning on %patchN syntax

Is there a timeframe for actual removal? There are ~10k such lines in ~3.3k 
Fedora Rawhide packages.


 > Don’t embed CPU count of build system in packages (#2343)

I worry that the way this was fixed is probably a breaking change. Packages out 
there use e.g. SPHINXOPTS='%{?_smp_mflags}' (~50 Fedora packages) which will 
turn into SPHINXOPTS='-j${RPM_BUILD_NCPUS}' which will not work.

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