Heads-up on rpm 4.12 coming to rawhide soon

Igor Gnatenko ignatenkobrain at fedoraproject.org
Sat Jun 28 17:45:32 UTC 2014


On Fri, 2014-06-27 at 18:38 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote: 
> Hi all,
Hi, 
> Rpm 4.12 alpha just got released: 
> http://lists.rpm.org/pipermail/rpm-announce/2014-June/000045.html
Wow. Cool!
> The plan is to update rawhide to this shiny new version first thing on 
> Monday morning and babysit as needed (ie the usual drill), but if you're 
> feeling bored over the weekend or its as rainy wherever you live as it 
> is in here now, and you're feeling a little bit brave, give it a spin in 
> the meanwhile:
> 
> https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/pmatilai/rpm-snapshot/
> 
> The copr packages are for rawhide only and should be very close to what 
> goes into rawhide on Monday. If you're dying to test but not willing to 
> rawhide all the way, they can be used on F20 too if you
> 1) install perl-generators from rawhide
> 2) remove rpm-python3 package before updating
> 
> As the announcement says, there are some rough edges still (as in, 
> there's a reason its alpha). I run it on my systems and it's not 
> expected to eat anybody (or their systems) alive, but do pay attention...
> 
> Bug reports and other feedback welcome.
Sure! 
> 	- Panu -


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-Igor Gnatenko
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