Heads up: rpm 4.11 alpha coming soon to rawhide near you

[Jon Ciesla]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 2:28 AM, Panu Matilainen
<pmatilai at laiskiainen.org>wrote:

>
> Now that FESCo accepted http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/**Features/RPM4.11<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/RPM4.11>for F19... (in what might well be a record time - less than a minute in the
> meeting from proposal to acceptance :)
>
> Rpm 4.11 alpha (or actually post-alpha snapshot to pull in a few
> accumulated fixes + enhancements) will be hitting rawhide shortly. There's
> no soname bump involved this time, so no rebuilds required.
>
> There's one thing that does affect nearly every package: new warnings
> about bogus spec changelog dates. The most common cause is the day name not
> matching the given date, such as:
> warning: bogus date in %changelog: Tue Jun 03 2009 Panu Matilainen <
> pmatilai at redhat.com> - 4.7.0-5
>
> Jun 03 2009 was Wednesday, not Tuesday, hence the warning. As rpm hasn't
> hasn't previously validated changelog dates make sense as a whole, nearly
> every spec has one or more of these mistakes. It's just a warning though
> and doesn't cause build failures.
>
> Other than that, chances are you wont notice much anything at all.
> Assuming all goes well that is. So its the usual drill: keep your eyes open
> on rawhide builds and report any new oddities found ASAP. I'm not expecting
> any major issues with this but you never really know.
>
> For further details see the draft release notes at
> http://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/**4.11.0<http://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.11.0>
>
> I can't build the latest wesnoth in rawhide, but I can in all older
releases.  Fails because some of the data is missing.

http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//work/tasks/9837/4709837/build.log

Is this RPM related?

-J


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