* Florian Festi:
On 3/31/23 15:40, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
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?
No! But here is the commit:
https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/commit/cd46c1704ccd8eeb9b6007...
It looks like it adds x86_64_v2, x86_64_v3 and x86_64_v4. Something about some x86_64 processors having additional capabilities.
Are these fully separate architectures, or can x86_64_v3 packages fulfill dependencies on x86_64 packages?
It's not clear to me yet how this new feature is supposed to be used.
(Detection for x86-64-v3 and x86-64-v4 is not correct because it does not examine XCR0. I'm going to file an upstream bug for that.)
Thanks, Florian