[Rpm-maint] RPM 4.7.0 beta1 available

[Per Øyvind Karlsen]

2009/3/18 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at laiskiainen.org>

> On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, Per Ųyvind 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.

Ah, great! :)

I just glanced at them, seems okay, I'm happy now. :D
I was starting to worry about fugly incompatibilities in each and every
direction there for a moment. ;)

Thx!

--
Hugs & kisses,
Per Øyvind
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