On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 3:42 PM Ben Cotton bcotton@redhat.com wrote:
== Detailed Description == RPM 4.19 contains various improvements over previous versions. Many of them are internal in nature such as moving from automake to cmake, improvements to the test suite, stripping copies of system functions, splitting translations into a separate project and more. There are still several user facing changes:
- New rpmsort(8) utility for sorting RPM versions
Handy!
- x86-64 architecture levels (v2-v4) as architectures
Could you explain more what this means, exactly?
- Support for %preuntrans and %postuntrans scriptlets
- Creating User and Groups from sysusers.d files including Provides
and Requires or Recommends
I may have cried a little bit in joy here. This is huge!
([https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/pull/2432 PR], [https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/discussions/2277 Discussion])
Dynamic Spec generation]
This could be a real winner for glibc, texlive and fedora-release.
** find_lang now being able to generate language sub packages
Could you provide more info on this? It's written almost like a side-note, but this could be a big deal.
The 4.19 alpha release is expected in April and the final release is expected in time for the Fedora 39 release cycle as usual.
But I want it now... <petulant pout>