Chip 1998 February/CHIP_2_98.iso/misc/src/rpm/CHANGES

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2.4.7 -> 2.4.8:
    - added noarch build compatibilities for ppc, m68k
    - fixed some minor typos (Florian La Roche)
    - added Obsoletes: tag, an upgrade removes packages which
      have been obsoleted
    - updated rpmdepUpgradePackage() to deal with obsoletes tag

2.4.6 -> 2.4.7:
    - had some wrong month lengths in changelog date parsing
    - updated fine-requires (Linux version) to add lines for shell
      scripts (Donnie Barnes)
    - didn't package / properly
    - pre/post script processing had some erroneous free() calls
    - fixed typos for HP archs in lib/rpmrc.c
    - uname() results should go through *_canon tables before anything
      else happens
    - set -x in debug shells, not -xs

2.4.5 -> 2.4.6:
    - added os_canon entries for BSD/OS and NextStep
    - replaced include of <malloc.h> with includes of <stdlib.h>
    - fixed md5sum of source packages w/ a buildroot is used
    - fixed bugs installing version 1 packages
    - remove hyphens from uname() result (specifically for HP-UX)
    - hacks to recognize architecture under parisc
    - RPM_INSTALL_PREFIX wasn't being set properly (this should be
      fixed now)
    - replaced temporary file creation to be race-condition safe
    - prerequisites may not specify versions

2.4.4 -> 2.4.5:
    - call getpwnam()/endpwent() once before a chroot(), forcing name
      service shared libs to be loaded from outside of the root path
    - added vesrion stamp to lib/misc.o (and librpm.a by extension)
    - fixed config.sub, config.guess to recognize i686
    - ARCHIVESIZE tag didn't get filled in properly, breaking progress
      meters

2.4.3 -> 2.4.4:
    - restore working directory after installing a package w/ a chroot
    - dump the package stack when a dependency loop is encountered
    - when a user/group lookup fails, end*ent() and retry
    - fixed broken --scripts argument (it was --s2)
    - only display the packager and url in -qi output if they have defined
      values
    - print "(not installed)" as the install time for -p queries rather
      then "not a number"
    - almost completely rewrote rcfile parsing; I'm sure this will
      break things eventually but it's much more flexible now
    - added buildarch/buildos compatibility tables, listed values
      in --showrc
    - added cpio archive building code; GNU cpio is no longer used!
      packages created w/ rpm 2.4.4 and later cannot be installed with
      rpm 2.4 - rpm 2.4.3 however (version of RPM before 2.4 will
      work fine, however). An "error -2 reading header" happens when
      this is attempted
    - removed cpiobin from rpmrc
    - added rpmrc "provides" tag to allow easy fulfillment of
      automatically generated dependencies
    - look for random() in libm if it can't be found be default
    - fixed problems in Solaris's autodeps stuff (Eric Mumpower)
    - --setperms should work properly on directories now
    - --justdb on install, upgrade, and erasure causes a database
      update w/o the filesystem being touched
    - fixed version comparison of a package w/ a serial tag against
      a package w/o one
    - added BuildArchitectures: tag to spec file to enable builds
      for alternate/multiple architectures
    - look for random() in -lucb
    - changed the licensing terms for librpm to allow redistribution
      under the LGPL
    - applied man page changes from Alex deVries
    - configure.in builds up LIBS by appending (Benedict Lofstedt)
    - rpm2cpio reported wrong zlib error string
    - removed \n from (none) generated by query format code
    - queries of fssizes w/o fsnames didn't work (Till Bubeck)
    - added --noorder option to skip package reordering (Elliot Lee)

2.4.2 -> 2.4.3:
    - implemented install time prerequisites
    - repaired %{#TAG} query format
    - implemented ternary operator as query expression
    - fixed --scripts to only print information on scripts which
      are present
    - check symlink() return for < 0, not != 0 (Bob Tanner)
    - uses chroot() for installs --root option
    - archive expansion doesn't create new devices or symlinks when
      the proper files already exist
    - added -p to %post (etc) to specify the program which a script
      is run through
    - if -p is used w/ an empty script, the specified program is
      executed directly
    - the -p argument (or /bin/sh) is automaticall added as a prereq

2.4.1 -> 2.4.2:
    - completely rewrote queryformat code
    - added fsnames, fssizes virtual query tags
    - added rpmdbFindByHeader() and rpmdbFindByTag() public functions
    - added rpmfilename tag to rpmrc to define the filename format to
      use for binary packages (note the rpmdir is prepended to it)
    - used pclose() instead of fclose() in -t code
    - updated man pages
    - changed "struct rpmdb" to "struct rpmdb_s" for C++
    - netsharedpath entries shouldn't match partial directory names
      anymore (a nersharedpath of /usr/lib shouldn't affect /usr/libexec)
    - don't backup config files on netsharedpaths (take 2)
    - added "day" query format which is like date, but doesn't print
      any time
    - added --changelog alias to query a packages changelog entry
    - added mntctl() support for AIX (I think, I can't test this)
    - fflags query type displays 's' for specfiles, 'm' for missingok
      files, and 'n' for noreplace files
    - implemented %config(missingok) flag in install
    - added --allfiles flag for -i and -U, which forces all files (even
      missingok files) to be installed
    - implemented %config(noreplace) for the install, but it hasn't
      been tested in any way
    - added i18n support to headers
    - added ppc/rs6000 differntiation for AIX
    - all IP* from uname() is changed to just IP
    - IP is considered the same as mips (not sgi)
    - added IRIX64 OS, it's compatible w/ IRIX

2.4 -> 2.4.1:
    - take advantage of lchown() if it's available
    - fixed configure script to assume chown() doesn't follow symlinks
      if lchown() isn't available and configure is not being run as root
    - more header file changes for AIX
    - added :shescape query format type for strings, which prints strings
      which will survive a single level of shell expansion
    - fixed --setperms and --setugids to handle empty packages and
      packages with odd filenames
    - include <sys/time.h> before <sys/resource.h>
    - include "miscfn.h" first in every file which needs it
    - created noarch architecture which everything is compatible with
    - fixed group verification (Benedict Lofstedt)
    - don't backup config files on netsharedpaths
    - added info on --build{arch|os} to --help and usage messages

2.3.11 -> 2.4:
    - changed RPMNLSDIR directories to and @datadir@ to better
      conform with autoconf
    - set RPM_INSTALL_PREFIX environment variable when running
      verify scripts
    - beginnings of SCO support (though I suspect it will take one
      or two more iterations to get it right)
    - switched to CVS and updated some Makefile rules
    - look for gethostbyname() instead of gethostname() in -nsl
      (this could break some things)
    - added check for strcasecmp() in -lucb on systems which don't
      have strcasecmp() in libc
    - don't build -static on hpux10
    - don't try and NLS empty strings
    - changed index() call to strchr() in macro code
    - include <time.h> in build/spec.c for various platforms
    - added update-po rule to po/Makefile.in
    - updated de.po (thanks to Karl Eichwalder)
    - rpmFindByFile() removes trailing and duplicate /'s
    - made many string in rpm program (though not yet in the various
      libraries) translatable
    - eight character user names could break -qlv
    - requirements which begin with a leading / require files (in
      the database!) instead of packages
    - clean up conflictsindex during --rebuilddb
    - get path to gzip from /usr/lib/rpmrc rather then just hoping it's
      in the path
    - use dbpath for error messages with include database path in
      their text
    - don't set owner/group if binaries installed by "make install"
    - include <strings.h> on SCO
    - don't use cpio when installing packages <gulp>
    - fixed bug which affected dependencies on the Alpha
    - made '=' work for long arguments (the switch to popt broke this)
    - handle solaris systems better
    - complain if critical rpmrc variables (cpiobin, gzipbin, etc) aren't
      set anywhere
    - allow --dbpath for --rebuilddb
    - added check for systems whose chown() follows symlinks. If configure
      is run as root, this should get it right, otherwise it assumes
      chown() does not follow symlinks. You can use --enable-broken-chown
      to force configure to think chown does indeed follow symlinks.
    - if chown() follows symlinks, we don't chown() symlinks during cpio
      unpacking and we don't verify the owner or group of symlinks
    - added packager and url to default -qi output
    - look for <sys/select.h> and use it if it's there (for AIX)

2.3.10 -> 2.3.11:
    - fixed newlines in --scripts output
    - fix handling of source files with bad owners/groups

2.3.9 -> 2.3.10:
    - --allmatches handling in -e broke some cases
    - new predefined macros: %SOURCEn %PATCHn %SOURCEURLn %PATCHURLn
    - fix anomoly with %files -f <file> and %doc
    - ignore config bit when it's set on directories (which allows
      users to replace directories with symlinks)
    - don't set config bit on directories
    - strip trailing slashes from files (during build)
    - %tags are now case sensitive (macros too)

2.3.8 -> 2.3.9:
    - reworked %setup to allow multiple -a and -b options, which
      should noticeably ease the task of unapcking multiple tar files
    - md5 sum's were calculated incorrectly on big endian machines
      from 2.3.2 through 2.3.8 -- this was fixed and some hacks were
      done to keep verification working
    - updated README
    - added --allmatches to allow erasing multiple versions/releases
      of a package
    - changed ftp URL's to use \r\n, not just \n (this should let RPM
      work w/ some picky (but rfc compliant) ftp servers
    - fix problem where parts at end of spec file were dropped
    - added %config(noreplace missingok) (build-side)
    - simple spec file macros
    - should now process entire file list before failing

2.3.7 -> 2.3.8:
    - added -t? options to build packages from tarballs which contain
      .spec files instead of from the .spec files directly
    - fixed error in man page where ftp URLs are discussed
    - don't strlen(NULL) in headerAddEntry()
    - minor portability changes
    - stopped building oldrpmdb.c as part of rpmlib
    - added Makefile rule for building rpmconvert (which is almost
      never needed) -- this isolated gdbm dependence to this target
    - fixed checking of popt stack overflow
    - --requires shouldn't imply -q
    - fixed error message issued when a groupname does not exist
    - fixed but in changelog processing which made it hang on '*' in a
      changelog entry
    - generate S_ISSOCK and S_ISLNK macros on systems w/o them
    - "rpm --erase" wasn't returning proper error codes w/ package
      removal failed

2.3.6 -> 2.3.7:
    - fixed nasty memory link in -Va
    - configure checks for -lnsl explicitly rather then linking it
      to -lsocket (for NCR SysVR4)
    - configure checks for dirent.h
    - modified glob.c to include config.h and use HAVE_DIRENT_H
    - cleanup of LIBS/LIBPATH mess a bit more

2.3.5 -> 2.3.6:
    - -Vf uses realpath() now
    - -Vp lets you use --ftpproxy, --ftpport
    - changed popt format, breaking all popt alises :-(
    - added ability to alias character arguments to popt
    - moved --requires, --info to /usr/lib/rpmpopt
    - RPM is more forgiving of blank user names (dumb)
    - popt searches for aliases in the correct order now
    - cleanup query code to handle missing uid lists better
    - cleanup up configure.in a tad

2.3.4 -> 2.3.5:
    - %{#TAG} in query format prints the array length
    - cleanup up protoypes in rpmlib.h
    - let -Vp work on URLs
    - don't set umask(0) anymore -- that confused programs which
      link against rpmlib quite badly
    - moved print out in "rpm -v -i" to occur after any warnings
      to pretty up the output a bit
    - added default optflags for powerpc
    - run shell for post/pre scripts in debug mode with -sx for
      some silly shells
    - installing source packages with --root checked for the
      sources/specs directory to exist outside of the root -- fixed
    - modified toplevel Makefile to run dependency generation only
      against referenced sources
    - array size mismatches in --qf should send error to stderr
    - tried to make the locale stuff a bit more portable (again)
    - reworked the owner/group setting on installs to be more generic
      (in preperation for getting rid of cpio)
    - made verify verify owner and groups by name rather then by id -- if
      the symbolic names aren't available use the uids
    - cleaned up relocateFilelist() and related code thanks to
      new header introduced in 2.3.3 -- this could break relocateable
      packages but they seem okay
    - fixed a bug which could cause relocateable packages to not get
      relocated -- I think this bit some people during hard drive
      installs of all things (Jason Salopek pestered me consistently
      enough to keep this on the front burner for me)
    - removed FILEUIDS and FILEGIDS from the header in the database --
      we never used it and it jsut wasted room
    - convert uid/gid lists in v1 headers to symbolic names

2.3.3 -> 2.3.4:
    - %changelog processing
    - fixed broken requires/conflicts parsing for spec file
    - vastly improved --rebuilddb's robustness
    - fixed misplaced free() (only affected inconsistent databases)
    - added conflicts documentation to docs/dependencies
    - using multiple query formats has them all concatenated
    - removed stdin based query and verify selectors
    - installs rpmpopt in libdir
    - moved --provides and --scripts to rpmpopt
    - added --setperms, --setugids
    - incorporated newer de.po from Karsten Weiss
    - --resign/--addsign was broken in 2.3.3 from popt conversion

2.3.2 -> 2.3.3:
    - Ripped out header internals and redid them. Any compatibility
      problems this causes are *bugs* as it should be completley
      transparent. If this works the devil better buy some Prestone (TM).
    - Use "cp -pr" instead of "cp -ar" for %doc expansion
    - use <string.h> instead of (non standard) <strings.h> in some places
    - look for non-POSIX (broken) chmod
    - include local copies of glob/fnmatch
    - removed getopt() check from configure.in
    - fixed bug in ftp code which prevented proper logins to some sites
    - switched to popt from getopt, which allows command line aliasing
    - read initial aliases from /usr/lib/rpmpopt then /etc/popt and
      $HOME/.popt
    - cleanup up rdev verification (only verifies device files, checks
      device related mode bits as well)
    - fixed allocation of temporary paths (Eugene Kanter noticed this)
    - made tools/dumpdb read the rpmrc so it can find the database
    - added --nomd5 for -V and -K
    - don't assume mkdir -p will succeed if the dir exists
    - use RPMNLS* defines to avoid header file conflicts
    - bunch of minor cleanups to avoid warnings on other OS's

2.3.1 -> 2.3.2:
    - fixed bug in new rpmVersionCompare() which made it worse then
      useless (thanks to Norbert Kiesel)
    - fixed silly message

2.3 -> 2.3.1:
    - changed --help routing to have intelligent line wrapping
      to make i18n efforts easier
    - NLSDIR should be used for nls catalogs, not a hardcoded path
    - NLSDIR should be in share, not lib
    - renamed sweedish catalog from se to sv
    - added german catalog
    - treat RPM_CHAR_TYPE as RPM_INT8_TYPE for queries
    - made rpmEnsureOlder() internal to lib/install.c
    - added rpmVersionCompare() to compare version/release/serial numbers
      for packages -- returns like strcmp()
    - stdout/stderr were getting closed after running a verify script
    - relocting packages didn't work w/ the packages contained the
      directory which was it's prefix

2.2.11 -> 2.3:
    - replaced putenv/setenv which calls which malloc() buffer -- these
      are memory leaks, but the functions are only used between a fork()
      and exec() so it doesn't matter
    - created directroies are stamped with mtime from the file list

2.2.10 -> 2.2.11:
    - fixed some include file problems for FreeBSD
    - fixed find-provides script for Linux (silly typo)
    - -qvl didn't print out sticky bit
    - linux.prov won't print provides info for symlinks which point
      to libraries w/ proper sonames

2.2.9 -> 2.2.10:
    - changed how installArchive() handles running out of gzread()
      bytes while the child is still alive
    - changed tag for Alpha's to "alpha" from "axp" <gulp>
    - made ./configure look for --quiet support in cpio
    - netsharedPath's were having mkdir()'s done on them and had
      bad interactions with rooted directories
    - made -qp accept '-' to query the package on stdin
    - dependency checking was broken when no database was being used
    - don't *ever* let cpio make directories -- we do a better job
      (esp because we don't kill symlinks!)
    - plugged memory leaks in upgrade (again thanks to mpr) -- install,
      erase, upgrade, query, and verify all seem to be leakproof
    - use select() rather than busy waiting in cpio_gzip()
    - use half as much temp space during package assembly
    - fail if spec file check fails
    - changed canonical name for 68k to m68k (sorry)
    - integrated FreeBSD changes from Jared Mauch
    - integrated Irix changes from Hermann Lauer
    - i18n support can be disabled w/ configure by --disable-nls
      (thanks to Remy Card)
    - integrated more AmigaOS patches, played with configure some
      more to allow cross compiling (Kristof Depraetere)
    - cleanups to rpm2cpio (closing the gz stream) (Elliot Lee)
    - made find-provides return filename for libs w/ no soname

2.2.8 -> 2.2.9:
    - fixed typo in default rpmrc
    - made getBooleanVar() a bit better
    - added triggers to package builds
    - tagged spec file in source package file list
    - added %verifyscript (controlled by --noscript, -v flags)
    - changed pkgReadHeader() mechanism to be more generic
    - added find-provides for Solaris, made find-provides setup
      more generic (w/ configure.in picking the right one)
    - fix -Q
    - The Great Renaming
    - use external OS specific script to generate requires lines
      (should work with ld.so 1.8.x) (find-requries)

2.2.7 -> 2.2.8:
    - added --ftpproxy, --ftpport (and wrote about them in rpm.8)
    - added --nodeps to man page
    - added --showrc to man page
    - added conflict checking (use conflicts tag, which looks
      just like the requires tag)
    - fixed RPM's return code when package removal fails
    - cleaned up lib/install.c a bit for readability
    - plugged a bunch of memory leaks thanks to mpr -- install,
      uninstall, verify, and query all seem clean now
    - added support for trees shared over a network via netsharedpath
      in rpmrc
    - don't exit when there is an unknown option in an rpmrc, just
      give an error and continue
    - tried once again to get things working properly with 2.1's
      write behavior
    - added -E option for %patch
    - added UltraSPARC support to lib-rpmrc
    - moved default topdir and optflags settings to lib-rpmrc from
      /etc/rpmrc
    - removed /etc/rpmrc from standard distribution
    - use separate chgrp/chown commands in %setup macro
    - kill(2) arguments were backwards in lib/install.c
    - fileFile logging needed stdio to handle NULL args to %s
    - default docdir (for %doc macro) set in lib-rpmrc rather then
      hardcoded
    - removed some of the \n from args to error() [though many are
      still left]
    - uninstall should fail if the preuninstall script fails
    - --root works with --initdb now

2.2.6 -> 2.2.7:
    - applied lots of portability patches
    - builds on Solaris machines now!
    - will build w/o i18n support if GNU gettext isn't installed
    - added inet_aton, setenv functions for libmisc
    - added Sun4c, Sun4m architectures
    - use vfork() if fork() doesn't exist (for AmigaOS)
    - look for GNU cpio, complain if it doesn't exist at build time
    - put path for GNU cpio in /usr/lib/librpmrc
    - install rpm.shared if rpm wasn't built (for Solaris)
    - readHeader() in librpm.a should work on sockets (which may
      return partial reads)
    - package file query (-q -p) accepts ftp:// style URL's
    - if gzread returns 0 bytes (at EOF), don't call write w/ 0 byte
      argument as it's behviour isn't portable
    - fixed -Vp behavior (doesn't seg fault w/ packages have dependencies)

2.2.5 -> 2.2.6:
    - added --rebuilddb to rebuild database, updated man page
    - fix fd leak in md5sum
    - fixed group cache bug

2.2.4 -> 2.2.5:
    - if rename() for moving .spec file from SOURCES to SPECS fails,
      try copying it instead
    - -h and -v work for source package >= V2
    - -h output is much smoother now
    - new AutoReqProv: tag in spec file can disable automatic
          require/provide generation
    - fixed md5sum problem on big endian machines in a way that's
      mostly backwards compatible; this hack will be removed someday
    - added :fflags tag
    - fixed a couple of minor memory leaks in lib/install.c
    - --test for building

2.2.3 -> 2.2.4:
    - only remove docdir if %doc occurs
    - allow -R to %patch
    - moved to use GNU autoconf, though it probably isn't perfect yet
      (thanks Kristof Depraetere)
    - spec file sanity: no - chars in version or release,
      must be a regular file :-)
    - version specifications for requirements can use "-<release number>"
    - default lib path, tmp path, topdir, and /usr/lib/rpmrc get set
      by configure script relative to --prefix

2.2.2 -> 2.2.3:
    - fixed script file md5 checking when files are in a root
    - implemented proper strdup/free logic for dependency conflict
      lists
    - strip leading directories from ldd output
    - fix non-null-terminated readlink() result
    - fixed sscanf() in ftp code to use proper types

2.2.1 -> 2.2.2:
    - added functionality to rpmlib to suggest resolutions for
      dependency problems
    - fix stupid allocation problem in exclude/exclusive stuff
    - fix nasty bug where pointers in to the header were getting
      stale after some realloc()s in addEntry()
    - ignore OS tag for v2 packages -- it was wrong anyway
    - match shared libs on ".so" rather than ".so."
    - skip blanks from objdump for auto-provide
    - if objdump gets us _end, provide the file name
    - do not ldd non-regular files
    - do not pass leading "/" to ldd
    - fix ExcludeOs: and ExclusiveOs:
    - -V verifies dependencies, can be controlled with --nodeps
      and --nofiles
    - added information on --nodeps to usage messages
    - implement --timecheck and rpmrc timecheck:
    - implement -bl
    - catch duplicate files in file lists
    - some random sanity checking on the file list

2.2 -> 2.2.1:
    - made rpmRemovePackage() print message in verbose mode
    - added support for ftp://user:[e-mail]/ URL's
      during installation - the password will be prompted for
      if only the user is given, and anonymous ftp will be used
      it both user and password are omitted (as before)
    - Remove Exclusive: Exclude:
      Replace with: ExclusiveArch: ExclusiveOs:
                ExcludeArch: ExcludeOs:
    - fixed dependency cheking for packages that are installed
      at the same time
    - fixed version number dependency checking
    - fixed problem installing v1 source packages (thanks to
      Nikita Borisov)
    - fixed minor spelling/spacing problems (Nikita Borisov)
    - assume all v1 packages were made for Linux so OS check works
    - began to implement proxyftp, though it doesn't work yet
    - fixed spacing when reporting dependency conflicts
    - fixed bug where a long name (uname()) was mapping to itself

2.1.2 -> 2.2:
    - don't fail, and do report, if -K can't find a PGP key
    - handle file names with quotes and spaces when passed to ldd
      (still can't have spaces in %files)
    - do not allow Buildprefix: in sub packages
    - removed require_group from rpmrc -- groups are always required
    - removed arch_sensitive from rpmrc -- always on
    - removed docdir from rpmrc -- always /usr/doc
    - fixed nasty bug in installing packages with large filelists
    - made -R work
    - --provides and --requries don't print anything if no information
      is present (rather then (none) )
    - -qi prints Summary now
    - changed Buildprefix: -> Buildroot: (spec file, rpmrc)
          --buildprefix -> --buildroot (command line)
          RPM_BUILD_PREFIX -> RPM_BUILD_ROOT
                    (%prep, %build, %install, %clean)
      sorry :-)
    - allow Prefix: for sub-packages
    - allow packager: in rpmrc
    - --arch and --os are now --buildarch and --buildos
    - magic arch/os handling through arch_canon and os_canon
      see /usr/lib/rpmrc (in short: uname short_name num)
    - removed build_arch: from rpmrc
      Replacing it is buildarchtranslate: and buildostranslate:
      to allow building with arch/os other than what uname() returns.
      Can still be overriden with --buildarch and --buildos
    - rpmrc keywords are now case-insensitive
    - check os at install time
    - check return code from gzread() during installs
    - implemented os_compat
    - added arch_compat and os_compat information to --showrc (the
      changes needed to do this removed any lingering questions about
      the efficiency of the compat lookups for large tables or tables
      with loops -- it should all work fine)
    - made -u (--uninstall) exit with an error and not do anything
    - added --ignoreos
    - fixed error message given when a file is missing
    - fixed hashing when multiple packages are being modified
    - changed man page for readability (thanks to Joseph L. Hartmann, Jr)

2.1.1 -> 2.1.2:
    - fixed error message for unrelocateable packages
        - automatic shared lib provides now work with buildprefix
    - fixed dependency checking during upgrades to work if the
      package wasn't previously installed
    - clean up temp file after signature check
    - dependencies weren't looking through packages that were
      being installed at the same time quite right

2.1 -> 2.1.1:
    - fixed -qi query format

2.0.11 -> 2.1:
        - added --requires, --whatrequires, --provides and
      --whatprovides queries
    - using a string array tag in a queryformat results in every
      item in the string being printed out with spaces in between
      (though this behaviour will probably go away shortly)
    - all packages are ftp'd before any are installed (required to
      do proper dependency checking)
    - if only source packages are being installed, the database is
      never opened
    - automatic shared library require/provides tags generated
    - added --nodeps flag for install and uninstall
    - added dependency checking for installs and uninstalls
    - misc fixes to compile with glibc
    - use PGPPATH if set (and no pgp_path: in rpmrc)
    - remove pgp_pubring, pgp_secring stuff
    - new extensible signature
    - signature section supports multiple signatures
    - --addsign to add a signature to a package
    - PGP key no longer limited to 1024 bits
    - always do at least an MD5 "signature"
      as a result, -K will always tell you something
    - signatures now include a simple "header+archive size" check
          just calling readSignature() checks this
    - --nopgp (with -K) to skip PGP check, just do MD5
    - allow '#' comments in preamble and %files section
    - fixed -qsv to print both the states and the file information
    - added --dump option to query to print all file attributes
    - installs with --root use the /etc/passwd and /etc/group from
      the target directory
    - added --initdb to aid in database initialization
    - --queryformat can print items of type INT8
    - "sourceless" packages with nosource: and nopatch:
    - [] now allows interation through query formats
    - '-' flag for query tags removed
    - :date and :perms supported as query format specifiers
    - new rpmrc entries "arch" and "os" to override
    - --arch and --os on the command line to override
    - arch and os are now strings in the package header
    - added arch_compat handling in /etc/rpmrc
    - added build_arch to /etc/rpmrc
    - support arch as string
    - added --ignorearch option
    - Prefix: in spec file to specify default installation prefix
    - rpmrc and command line may be used to override the path
      used for the rpm database
    - relocatable packages get installed properly
    - added support for --prefix and RPM_INSTALL_PREFIX environemtn
      variable
    - added dependency checking for version numbers
    - added correct dependency checking for upgrades
    - added :depflags query format flag
    - changes --provides, --requires, and --scripts queries to use
      queryFormats

2.0.10 -> 2.0.11:
        - fixed chmod(symlink) bug (since 2.0.9)

2.0.9 -> 2.0.10:
    - fixed the fix to rpm -q <num> bug
      to query by number you now need --querybynumber
    - made arch_sensitive on by default
    - handle # comments in preamble
    - don't barf if we can't canonicalize the hostname during builds
    - fixed --verify with --root

2.0.8 -> 2.0.9:
    - %files -f <file>
    - prelim Require/Provide handling
    - prelim strict checking of spec file
    - removed some bash-isms
    - fixed globbing/root bug
    - fixed rpm -q <num> bug
    - fixed ftw() related bug where symlinks were being
      followed in %files rather than just being noted!!
    - pass "upgrade" arg to pre/post scripts when upgrading
    - use PATH to find cpio when installing
    - fixed rpm.magic, added sun4, mips, 68k, sgi, sunos, solaris
    - added %attr(mode owner group) feature to file list
    - fixed dumb %verify() parse bug

2.0.7 -> 2.0.8:
    - explicitly turn off ASCII armor when running PGP
    - fixed --noscripts logic, which was on by default and
      off if you specified it!
    - uses a temp file to pass filenames to cpio in case when
      their are more then 500 filenames in a package
    - added --rcfile
    - fixed problem with $HOME/.rcfile not being read
    - undocumented --search, --where, --keep-temps which
      will probably won't be implemented in RPM 2.x anyway

2.0.6 -> 2.0.7:
        - builds now set umask 022 for all scripts
    - queries relative paths correctly (thanks to Johnie Stafford)
    - fixed error codes for failed installs
    - don't add NULL entry to group index for packages that don't
      have group information, add it to the "Unknown" group instead
    - added --scripts query option
    - added --noscripts for installing and uninstall without using
      the pre/post scripts
    - "rpm -qd" and "rpm -qc" work properly now (they didn't imply
       -l before)

2.0.5 -> 2.0.6:
    - internal changes to error messages

2.0.4 -> 2.0.5:
    - added support for generic querying
    - added --querytags option
    - updated man page for above two
    - short-circuit got added before 2.0.5, but I don't know when
    - query and installs should now return 0 on success and nonzero
      otherwise (rpm -i should return the number of packages that
      failed actually)
    - made rpm -qa fail if extra arguments are passed to it

2.0.3 -> 2.0.4:
    - added support for PowerPC, and OSF mklinux ports
    - added --resign
    - added --recompile
    - added verbose error messages from Tyson Sawyer
    - rpmconvert won't overwrite an existing database
    - won't core dump querying old format source packages
    - freed minor memory leak
    - more descriptive error messages during build
    - added support for not installing documentation

2.0.2 -> 2.0.3:
    - added support for 686, 786, 886, 986

2.0.1 -> 2.0.2:
    - fixed ftp.c to return an error code when select timeouts
    - added basic NLS support, along with a Sweedish message catalog
      (thanks to Michael Nyquist)

2.0 -> 2.0.1:
    - hashing and percentages no longer SIGFPE on 0 byte packages
    - when an ftp fails, install.c no longer tries to install the package
    - uses /var/tmp rather then /usr/tmp during for ftp space
    - added debugging messages to ftp.c
    - fixed some mistakes in the PGP section of the man page
    - added mdfile prototype to rpmlib.h - the Python module wants this
    - fixed struct oldrpmlead to align properly on the alpha

2.0    - everything done :-)

2.0b -> 2.0c:
    - an incredible number of changes - I won't bother trying to
      list them

2.0a -> 2.0b:
    - moved build stuff to main rpm command, though --rebuild is still
      not supported
    - install should work, although replaced files are not marked as
      replaced
    - %doc macro fixed
    - --percent, --hash work for installs
    - converted databases and packages get the file list in the correct
      order now
    - none of this is well tested
    - rpms are output to proper dirs (which are always arch sensitive)
    - basic rpmrc functions are implemented, full parsing is present
    - changed error messages for missing files to include full path
    - fixed detection of Alpha's

1.4.6 -> 2.0a:
    - completely rewritten in C
    - verification missing
    - build functionality not in main rpm, in rpmbuild instead
      (this will be corrected)
    - an awful lot is still missing - this is an ALPHA release

1.4.5 -> 1.4.6:
    - fixed rpmq problem with packages w/o groups (old RPM's would do this)
    - fixed uninstalling with --root

1.4.4 -> 1.4.5:
    - added support for mips processors
    - added support for osf1 and irix os's

1.4.3 -> 1.4.4:
    - fixed bug in arch detection code which caused i386 failure

1.4.2 -> 1.4.3:
    - added tokens for SPARC, MIPS, PowerPC, and 680x0 architectures
        - fixed sparc arch, added arch sanity check

1.4.1 -> 1.4.2:
    - added --root to man page, usage, and help messages
    - added a " " to the "Creating directory" debug message in install.pl
    - make --rebuild fail on binary packages
    - don't output prep/build/install sections if there aren't any

1.4 -> 1.4.1:
    - fixed man page
    - updated corruption messages to not mention --rebuild
    - added RPM_PACKAGE_VERSION and RPM_PACKAGE_RELEASE variables
      at build time
    - no longer allows installing binary packages across architectures
    - fixed handling of symlinks marked as config files

1.3.2 -> 1.4:
    - make -v the default when using -b and --rebuild
    - added %postbuild as an alias for %clean
    - added gendiff
    - added groups file installed in /usr/lib/rhs/rpm
    - made usage message different and more concise then the --help message
    - added --version option
    - updated man page
    - changed C build tree for concurrent building on multiple architectures

1.3.1 -> 1.3.2:
    - add -b option to %patch
    - fixed install/chroot temp file deleting

1.3 -> 1.3.1:
    - fixed bug when doing md5 of erased config file during rpm -u
    - fixed spec file searching

1.2 -> 1.3:
    - added --search and --where options
    - multiarchitecture support
    - added --rebuild option
    - started C rewrite - rpmq (query options only)

1.1 -> 1.2:
    - preuninstalls weren't getting handled properly
    - Alpha architecture is now recognized and builds are allowed
    - the database open is checked for success before continuing
    - rpm -b? checks the SPEC files for package names given as args