Re: F39 proposal: RPM 4.19 (System-Wide Change proposal)

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On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 3:42 PM Ben Cotton <bcotton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RPM-4.19

> == 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?

> * Support for %preuntrans and %postuntrans scriptlets
> * Creating User and Groups from sysusers.d files including Provides
> and Requires or Recommends
I may have cried a little bit in joy here. This is huge!

> ([https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/pull/2432 PR],
> [https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/discussions/2277
> Discussion])
> * [https://rpm-software-management.github.io/rpm/manual/dynamic_specs.html
> Dynamic Spec generation]

This could be a real winner for glibc, texlive and fedora-release.

> ** find_lang now being able to generate language sub packages

Could you provide more info on this? It's written almost like a
side-note, but this could be a big deal.

>
> The 4.19 alpha release is expected in April and the final release is
> expected in time for the Fedora 39 release cycle as usual.
But I want it now... <petulant pout>
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