Heads-up on rpm 4.12 coming to rawhide soon

[Panu Matilainen]

On 06/30/2014 03:12 PM, Vít Ondruch wrote:
> Dne 27.6.2014 17:38, Panu Matilainen napsal(a):
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Rpm 4.12 alpha just got released:
>> http://lists.rpm.org/pipermail/rpm-announce/2014-June/000045.html
>>
>> 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.
>
> Interesting, it breaks Ruby build it seems:
>
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=7090194
>
> Not sure about the reason, though.

Seems the ruby macros are not expanding properly throughout the spec, 
please file a bug.

	- Panu -