RPM 4.10.1 Release Notes
Summary of changes from RPM 4.10.0
General bugfixes and enhancements
- Permit key imports on transactions where signature checking is
disabled, regression of sorts introduced in 4.10.0 (RhBug:856225)
- Fix RPMPROB_FILTER_FORCERELOCATE aka –badreloc, regression introduced
in 4.9.0 (RhBug:828784)
- Verify files from non-installed packages again, regression introduced
in 4.9.0 (RhBug:826589)
- Fix large (> 4GB) package support, regression introduced in 4.9.0
(RhBug:844936)
- Only create the first instance of a file shared between multiple
packages on install (speedup + improved verification timestamp
behavior)
- Report config and missinok flags too in deptype format extension
- Fix relative path handling in –whatprovides query
- Accept em64t architecture as an alias for x86_64 (RhBug:800489)
- Fix 32bit ppc getting misidentified as ppc64p7
Package building
- Add –noclean and –nocheck options to rpmbuild (RhBug:756531)
- Permit non-existent %ghost directories to be packaged (RhBug:839656)
- Dont silence patch by default (RhBug:678000, RhBug:773503)
- Accept “owner” as an alias to “user” %verify attribute (RhBug:838657)
- Add “power64” arch macro for all supported PowerPC 64 processors
(RhBug:818320)
- Fix bogus “unclosed %if” error when %include is used in conditionals
- Report starting line for unclosed %if errors in spec
- Always print out package dependencies on build
API changes
- Restore pre-4.10.0 fdFree() behavior, ie return the fd itself
while references exist, returning NULL introduced fd leak regressions.
Internal improvements and cleanups
- Fix memory leak on config file disposition calculations, regression
introduced in 4.10.0
- Fix memory leak in spec changelog parsing error paths
- Fix memory leak in spec buildarch parsing recursion
- Fix rpmdsMatchesDep() behavior on obsoletes
- Honor RPMSENSE_MISSINGOK flag in dependency checking
- Some added cases to the internal test-suite
- Valgrind suppression file included for filtering /proc/self/auxv
related false positives