RPM 4.4.2.1

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• rpm-4.4.2.1.tar.gz source

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Changes from version 4.4.2 to 4.4.2.1

• remove internal sqlite, zlib, gettext

• remove obsolete utilities

• remove vendor gpg keys

• fix spec parenthesis parsing

• allow building without neon

• disable hkp lookup by default

• re-enable file-conflicts detection (151609)

• fix potential segfault in available file provides checking

• fix Requires(pre,postun) (155700)

• fix db build wrt newer CFLAGS

• fix popt CHARSET for various languages (172155)

• fix install size calculation with excludes in manifest (89661)

• use full path in the rpm cronjob (174211)

• filter out incorrect perl(main) provides (177960)

• fix scriptlet deadlock (146549)

• fix netshared path comparison (52725)

• make fcntl lock sensitive to --root (151255)

• fix rpmvercomp for strings with trailing null segments (178798)

• fix doxygen generation (187714)

• fix potential segfault if no rpmlock_path defined (231146)

• fix for thinko in debugedit on ppc

• fix debugedit wrt OOo

• fix debugedit with ../../ in paths

• fix various other issues in debugedit (205339)

• allow customisable diff and use -p by default (146981)

• handle fork failure

• fix a typo causing compiler warning (178055)

• fix a %{buildsubdir} typo/thinko

• fix uncompress waitpid logic to shut up the compiler (160434)

• add support for %{_docdir} macro (125514)

• fix segfault on rpmbuild with empty file list

• allow --ignoresize for erase operations

• don't attempt to execute empty transaction (43267)

• don't segfault if Fileno() is called with NULL

• don't attempt to execute empty transaction (43267)

• don't segfault if Fileno() is called with NULL

• abort build if cwd not determinable

• fix --noghost query option (103207)

• fix off-by-one error in glob

• check rpmtsInitDB() return value

• build internal Lua without readline support

• make rpmdbSync obey the no_dbsync flag

• fix package verification for packages with header+payload RSA but no header-only RSA

• drop any s-bits early when deleting files (50376, 125517)

• fix handling of old packages that use HEADERIMAGE

• catch disk-space errors when writing signed packages

• fix default verify flags for %doc (235353)

• fix debugedit for relative paths (232222)

• add configurable preferable elf colour policy (235757)

• python: always treat changelog as list

• use older perl helper scripts by default

• add mono req/provides support

• remove SELinux context verification (193488)

• fix building without Lua support

• fix --rebuilddb with --root option

• fix --setperms and --setugids with uninstalled packages

• don't run pre- and posttrans scripts in test mode

• dbmatch keys can be unicode objects also (219008)

• gendiff: let diff arguments be specified in the environment

• gendiff: emit diff headers (237561)

• improved error messages in verification of unreadable files

• python: raise exception if tsAdd fails

• check for supported package payload format (140052)

• fail build if beecrypt headers not found

• build: check unpackaged files even if other errors are present

• restore SIGILL handler in machine detection code

• add --dupes popt alias for detecting duplicate packages in rpmdb

• fix typo in check-prereq (203182)

• add --dupes popt alias for detecting duplicate packages in rpmdb

• fix typo in check-prereq (203182)

• python: fix rpm.te Key() refcount (182063)

• python: always treat fileverifyflags as list

• disable strict aliasing if compiler supports it (type-punning warns)

• add zh_TW translation

• add support for srcdefattr macro (48870, 125515)

• detect python 2.5 automatically in configure

• python: reference counting for match-iterators (241751)

• updated fi translation

• fix format string errors in de translation

• allow characters > 127 that don't fit the current locale in spec

• treat null epoch equal to zero epoch in freshen (143301)

• python: treat null epoch equal to zero labelCompare (227860)

• permit installing multiple package versions with -i (213399)

• fix <name>.<arch> query output for non-installed package (124016)

• updated pl translation

• don't read packages with non-verifiable signatures (239557)

• don't try to open non-existent file twice in query

• flush query format buffer before listing files (212833)

• check all header strings to resize buffer (212833)

• don't segfault on a header without RPMTAG_NAME (239557)

• fix file status for replaced files (237478)

• make %_signature default to gpg instead of none

• don't skip directories in fingerprinting (140055, 223639, ...)

• remove vendor, release specific dependency whitouts

• remove upstream spec files for rpm and popt

• don't open temporary databases in rpmdbOpenAll()

• open non-temporary db's before chroot (103952, 173285)

• don't treat provides as implicit obsoletes (111071, ...)

• fix CVE-2007-1536, CVE-2007-2799 in internal libmagic

• support specifying fuzz factor to %patch (243720)

• enable ordering on erase mode

• transaction ordering fixes (196590, 202540, 202542, ...)

• added IPv4/6 and EPSV support

• transaction ordering fixes (196590, 202540, 202542, ...)

• added IPv4/6 and EPSV support

• remove hardcoded /var/log/lastlog kludgery

• don't mmap large files (139539, 177616)

• detect and provide a requirement for DT_GNU_HASH

• ARM architecture update

• update popt version for clean upgradability

• remove hardcoded libtermcap vs bash kludge

• updated Russian man pages (185620)

• fix a sparse warning in popt.h (202005)

• disable broken "make check" tests

• treat /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/ as a docdir

• plug some minor memory leaks

• use --wildcards with tar for compatibility with tar >= 1.15.91

• fix segfault on errors if neon transport is used (220392)

• new buildroot sanity checker scripts check-buildroot and check-rpaths

• new debugedit option for recomputing build ID