[Rpm-maint] RPM 4.7.0 beta1 available

[Mark Rosenstand]

Hi Panu,

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Didn't expect a new version this soon? Frankly, we didn't either :)
> In the months that RPM 4.6.0 spent in stabilization phase of numerous
> release candidates we had plenty of time to work on new things, and as
> things have been fairly stable for a while now, it started looking like a
> good time to cut out a release.

>From my limited testing I've run into two minor problems:

If RPM is not already present on the build host, the platform
directories are created
unexpanded, i.e. literally /usr/lib/rpm/platform/%{_arch}-%{_os} and
/usr/lib/rpm/platform/noarch-%{_os}

If the xz utilities and library is present on the build host, there
doesn't seem to
be any way to disable the use of them in RPM, and RPM won't build against
the xz 4.999.8beta running here. But this was also the case for 4.6.0.

Thanks for tidying up RPM with each release :-)

- Mark