[Rpm-maint] RPM 4.17.0 alpha released!

[Thierry Vignaud]

Le lun. 26 avr. 2021 à 11:34, Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at redhat.com> a
écrit :

>
> The beginning of this year has gone nothing like planned, and
> consequently we had to postpone and even revert some things originally
> planned for 4.17. But what the hey, there's plenty of good stuff here as
> it is, and there will always be another release.
>
> Highlights include:
> - More robust install failure handling
> - Many macro improvements, in particular wrt Lua integration
> - Some long-needed transaction API enhancements
> - Beginnings of a reference manual
>
> In particular macros have seen a big overhaul: built-in and user-defined
> macros have been unified internally, and in general can be called by
> using either syntax. The Lua-macro interface is much improved, macro
> arguments are passed as native Lua arguments, parametric macros can be
> called as native Lua functions and all rpm macros can be natively
> accessed via a handy 'macros' table. In theory this is all backwards
> compatible, but with as with any changes there could be something we
> missed.
>
> For further details and download info, head over to
>
>         https://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.17.0
>
> On behalf of the rpm team,
>
>         - Panu -
>
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For the record, rpm-4.16.90's testsuite has an unexpected failure here:
323: rpm -i hardlinks                                FAILED (rpmi.at:758)
(…)
+++
/ff/rpm/BUILD/rpm-4.16.90-git15395/tests/rpmtests.dir/at-groups/323/stderr
 2021-04-26 10:35:59.602608319 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1 @@
-error: unpacking of archive failed: cpio: Archive file not in header
-error: hlinktest-1.0-1.noarch: install failed

./rpmi.at:758: exit code was 0, expected 1
323. rpmi.at:728: 323. rpm -i hardlinks (rpmi.at:728): FAILED (rpmi.at:758)

For the record, the generated package is also installable with rpm-4.16.1.3:
$ rpm -Uvh --test
./BUILD/rpm-4.16.90-git15395/tests/rpmtests.dir/323/testing/build/RPMS/noarch/hlinktest-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
Verifying...                          #################################
[100%]
Preparing...                          #################################
[100%]

This is a new test introduced in commit
a82251b44ee2d2802ee8aea1b3d89f88beee4bad
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