[Rpm-maint] RPM 4.11.0 beta1 released

[Thierry Vignaud]

On 17 December 2012 17:25, Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com> wrote:
> Humm, the new pool API has side effects.
> There was a bug in URPM where it would sometimes create empty transactions.
> With previous releases of rpm, that was harmless but now rpm abort with:
>
> perl: rpmal.c:98: rpmalCreate: Assertion `pool != ((void *)0)' failed.

(...)

> I've fixed the underneath bug in URPM but I think it would be better
> not to fail in such a way.
> It's not a "regression" that would affect lot of users but it may
> break other package managers.
> It would be better to return if no packages has been added to the transaction.

Eg, for the record, this is breaking perl-RPM4 too...