[Rpm-maint] RPM 4.7.0 beta1 available

[Panu Matilainen]

On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote:

> 2009/3/10 Jindrich Novy <jnovy at redhat.com>
>       On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 12:24:17PM +0100, Mark Rosenstand
>       wrote:
>       > RPM won't build against
>       > the xz 4.999.8beta running here. But this was also the case
>       for 4.6.0.
> 
> Fixed. The HEAD rpm should build (and work) fine with
> xz-4.999.8beta.
> 
> Jindrich
> 
> Yet it's still left incompatible with existing lzma payload support in
> OpenSuSE, rpm5 & Mandriva..
>
> Me and pixel has both reported this several times and provided patches to
> fix since long time ago, trivial to fix, still no fix happens and
> incompatible rpm versions are knowingly released.

Ugh, I thought this had already been taken care of, haven't been paying 
attention to the XZ/LZMA side at all.

> One could start wondering if you deliberately try to introduce
> incompatibilities, but I'm giving you more credit than that, and I really
> prefer to not start making up any paranoid claims, but *PLEASE* get this
> fixed _ASAP_ before it gets adopted and "impossible" to fix in any clean
> fashion.

Not intentional, more a matter of miscommunication/misunderstanding I 
think. Jindrich is on vacation far away from keyboard so I took care of it 
myself. The patch in Mandriva rpm was a bit big for my taste (combining 
trivial renames and added functionality etc) so I split it up a bit and 
left the unnecessary rpmio-internal lz->xz rename out:
http://rpm.org/gitweb?p=rpm.git;a=commitdiff;h=8078d0ba24662308b10d9eb0f0da978584b7e757
http://rpm.org/gitweb?p=rpm.git;a=commitdiff;h=fa0898552d3c52249bc41e8104eda02c1bbd3359

AFAICT this is now compatible with Suse, Mandriva (these two tested) and 
rpm5 too, but I'd appreciate if you can eyeball for any missed bits. I'm 
going to roll a new beta tarball in a few days with these changes 
included.

 	- Panu -