[platform/upstream/rpm.git] / CHANGES

4.0.3 -> 4.1

4.0.2 -> 4.0.3
        - update per-interpreter dependency scripts, add sql/tcl (#20295).
        - fix: rpmvercmp("1.a", "1.") returned -1, not +1 (#21392).
        - add cpuid asm voodoo to detect athlon processors.
        - add %exclude support (i.e. "everything but") to %files.
                (Michael (Micksa) Slade" <micksa@knobbits.org>)
        - add --with/--without popt glue for conditional builds(Tomasz Kloczko).
        - python: strip header regions during unload.
        - add -g to optflags in per-platform config.
        - permit confgure/compile with db3-3.2.9.
        - permit manifest files as args to query/verify modes.
        - fix: parameterized macro segfault (Jakub Bogusz <qboosh@pld.org.pl>).
        - fix: i18n tags in rpm-2.5.x had wrong offset/length (#33478).
        - fix: AIX has sizeof(uint_16) != sizeof(mode_t) verify cast needed.
        - fix: --relocate missing trailing slash (#28874,#25876).
        - fix: --excludedoc shouldn't create empty doc dir (#14531).
        - fix: %_netsharedpath needs to look at basenames (#26561).
        - fix: --excludepath was broken (#24434).
        - fix: s390 (and ppc?) could return CPIOERR_BAD_HEADER (#28645).
        - fix: Fwrite's are optimized out by aggressive compiler(irix) (#34711).
        - portability: vsnprintf/snprintf wrappers for those without (#34657).
        - cpio mappings carry dirname/basename, not absolute path.
        - fix: check waitpid return code.
        - remove support for v1 src rpm's.
        - re-position callbacks with ts/fi in cpio payload layer.
        - state machines for packages (psm.c) and payloads (fsm.c)
        - add --repackage option to put erased bits back into a package.
        - fix: (ppc) copy va_list in loop (#36845).
        - cpanflute perl dependency needs explicit epoch (#37034).
        - regenerate rpm.8 man page from docbook glop (in max-rpm).
        - lib/depends.c: diddle debugging messages.
        - fix: readlink return value clobbered by header write.
        - fix: ineeded count wrong for overlapped, created files.
        - globalize _free(3) wrapper in rpmlib.h, consistent usage throughout.
        - internalize locale insensitive ctype(3) in rpmio.h.
        - boring lclint annotations and fiddles.
        - transaction iterator(s) need to run in reverse order on pure erasures.
        - erasures not yet strict, warn & chug on unlink(2)/rmdir(2) failure.
        - more boring lclint annotations and fiddles.
        - yet more boring lclint annotations and fiddles.
        - still more boring lclint annotations and fiddles.
        - enough lclint annotations and fiddles already.
        - fix: specfile queries with BuildArch: (#27589).
        - fix: debugging message displays header keys (#38454).
        - fix: specfile queries with BuildArch: (#27589).
        - use internal db-3.2.9 sources to build by default.
        - don't build db1 support by default.
        - create rpmdb.la so that linkage against rpm's db-3.2.9 is possible.
        - rpm database has rpm.rpm g+w permissions to share db3 mutexes.
        - expose more db3 macro configuration tokens.
        - move fprint.[ch] and hash.[ch] to rpmdb directory.
        - detect and fiddle incompatible mixtures of db3 env/open flags.
        - add DBI_WRITECURSOR to map to db3 flags with CDB database model.
        - add rpmdbSetIteratorRewrite to warn of pending lazy (re-)writes.
        - harden rpmdb iterators from damaged header instance segfaults.
        - add cron/logrotate scripts to save installed package filenames.
        - upgrade to db-3.3.4.
        - fix: filter duplicate package removals (#35828).
        - add armv3l arch.
        - fix: i18n strings need 1 on sucess return code (#41313).
        - fix: skip %ghost files when building packages (#38218).
        - headerFree() returns NULL, _free is C++ safe.
        - remove all header region assertion failures, return NULL instead.
        - perform db->verify when closing db files.
        - eliminate db-1.85 and db-2.x configuration.
        - fix: popt arg sanity checks broken, optarg != optArg.
        - fix: popt range checks on floats/doubles broken.
        - popt: return POPT_ERROR_ERRNO on config open/read/close failure.
        - fix: popt exec doesn't add '--', --target et al no longer need '='.
        - fix: popt consume-next-arg "!#:+" w/o side effect (#41956).
        - fix: for busted db1, attempt chain reconnection to following record.
        - return multiple suggested packages
                (Pawel Kolodziej <pawelk@pld.org.pl>).
        - fix: return suggested packages when using Depends cache.
        - merge sparc64/ia64 fiddles back into linux.{req,prov}.
        - automagically generate perl module dependencies always.
        - fix: lclint fiddles broke uCache initialization (#43139).
        - always use db cursors.
        - permit duplicates for btree indices.
        - document build modes in rpmbuild.8, rpmbuild is born.
        - default to dbenv with mpool, --rebuilddb with nofsync is much faster.
        - fix: QUERY_FOR_LIST file count clobbered.
        - create top level rpmcli API, factor top level modes into popt tables.
        - popt: add POPT_BIT_SET/POPT_BIT_CLR to API.
        - autogen.sh checks for latest libtool-1.4 and automake-1.4-p2.
        - rpm --verify reports failure(s) if corresponding tag is not in header.
        - rpm --verify honors %config(missingok), add -v for legacy behavior.
        - remove dead code frpm popt table reorg.
        - more CLI typedefs/prototypes moved from rpmlib.h to rpmcli.h.
        - rpm --verify skips files in non-installed states.
        - rpm --verify skips content checks for %ghost files.
        - rpm --verify displays config/doc/gnost/license/readme atrrs for files.
        - rpm --verify checks immutable header region digest if available.
        - rpmbuild adds header region digest (SHA1 as string).
        - use rpmTag* typedefs in new hge/hae/hme/hre header vectors.
        - remove rpmrc Provides: Yet Again, use virtual packages.
        - dump cursor debugging wrappers.
        - rpm --verify can disable rpmFileAttr checks.
        - add rpmdbSetIteratorRE() for regex matching in database iterators.
        - permit rpm -qa to take RE args applied to name tag.
        - permit dbiFindMatches() to use version/release patterns.
        - eliminate all uses of rpmdbSetIterator{Version,Release}.
        - fix: db1 end-of-file not detected in legacy compatible way.
        - fix: remove (harmless) chown error message from %post.
        - add --target/--host to %configure, add example cross-build/config.site
                scripts to /usr/lib/rpm <arjanv@redhat.com> (#44581).
        - rpmdb iterator selectors permit default/strcmp/regex/glob matching.
        - rpmdb iterator selectors permit negative matches.
        - alpha: don't add "()(64bit)" dependency markers.
        - ia64/sparc: <arch>.{req,prov} identical to linux.{req,prov}.
        - add "rpmlib(ScriptletInterpreterArgs)" to track
            %post -p "/sbin/ldconfig -n /usr/lib"
          incompatibilities.
        - popt: add POPT_ARGFLAG_SHOW_DEFAULT to display initial values(#32558).
        - popt: add POPT_CONTEXT_ARG_OPTS for all opts to return 1 (#30912).
        - fix: fsm reads/writes now return error on partial I/O.
        - fix: Ferror returned spurious error for gzdio/bzdio.
        - check for API/ABI creep, diddle up some compatibility.
        - preliminary abstraction to support per-header methods.
        - finalize per-header methods, accessing headerFoo through vector.
        - make package ordering loop messages debug, not warning.
        - remove {ia64,sparc}-linux.{prov,req}, changes merged into linux.*.
        - fix: partial sets of hardlinked files permitted in payload.
        - fix: mark rpmdb files with %config to prevent erasure on downgrade.
        - work around a (possible) compiler problem on ia64.
        - fix: rpm -qlv link count for directories dinna include '..'.
        - fix: rpm -qlv size for directories should be zero.
        - add --noghost to filter non-payload files from rpm -qlv output.
        - add %{_gnu} macro to append "-gnu" to %{_target_platform} to
          support --target/--host flavored %configure. Legacy behavior
          available by undefining %{_gnu}.
        - add athlon per-platform configuration.
        - propagate %{_gnu} to per-platform configuration.
        - fix: parameterized macros with massive mumber of options need
          "optind = 1" "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@alt-linux.org>.
        - remove executable bit to disable autogenerated perl requires until
          perl provides can be vetted.
        - disable per-platform %%configure use of %%_gnu until libtool package
          stabilizes.
        - fix: permit partially enumerated hardlink file sets during build.
        - fix: resurrect rpm signature modes.
        - fix: sanity checks on #tags (<65K) and offset (<16Mb) in header.
        - fix: add -r to useradd to prevent /etc/skel glop (#46215).
        - fix: disambiguate typedef and struct name(s) for kpackage.
        - update intl dirs to gettext-0.10.38.
        - fix: sanity check for header size added in headerCopyLoad() (#46469).
        - fix: redundant entries in file manifests handled correctly (#46914).
        - map uid/gid from metadata into payload headers.
        - add removetid to header during --repackage.
        - expose rpmShowProgress() and rpmVerifyDigest() in rpmcli.h.
        - portability: avoid st_mtime, gendiff uses basename, etc (#47497).
        - glibc-2.0.x has not __va_copy().
        - popthelp.c: don't use stpcpy to avoid portability grief (#47500).
        - permit alias/exec description/arg text to be set from popt config.
        - python: rhnLoad/rhnUnload to check header digest.
        - package version now configureable, default v3.
        - rename rpm libraries to have version with libtool -release.
        - fix: -i CLI context broken Yet Again.
        - unlink all __db.nnn files before 1st db open.
        - python bindings should not segfault when fed bad data.
        - fix: adjust arg count for --POPTdesc/--POPTargs deletion.
        - add linux per-platform macro %_smp_mflags <sopwith@redhat.com>.
        - document more popt aliases for --help usage.
        - remove --tarbuild from man page(s), use -t[abpcils] instead (#48666).
        - fix: scope multi-mode options like --nodeps correctly (#48825).
        - isolate cdb access configuration (experimental, use at your own risk).
        - fix: hard fail on locked dbopen if CDB locking not in use.
        - fix: dbconfig with mp_mmapsize=16Mb/mp_size=1Mb for
          "everything ENOSPC" failure check.
        - fix: don't total hard linked file size multiple times (#46286).
        - add %dev(type,major,minor) directive to permit non-root dev build.
        - fix: _smp_flags macro broken.
        - python: bind rhnUnload differently.
        - fix: rescusitate --querytags.
        - fix: short aliases broken (#49213).
        - python: "seal" immutable region for legacy headers in rhnUnload() .
        - python: add poptmodule.so bindings.
        - fix: %dev(...) needs to map rdev and mtime from metadata.
        - resurrect --specedit for i18n.
        - fix: 4 memory leaks eliminated.
        - fix: yet another segfault from bad metadata prevented.
        - add sha1 test vectors, verify on ix86/alpha/sparc.
        - add (but disable for now) rpm-perl subpackage from Perl-RPM.
        - python: parameterize with PYVER to handle 1.5 and/or 2.1 builds.
        - add build dependency on zlib-devel (#49575).
        - enable rpm-perl subpackage.
        - add pmac/ppciseries/ppcpseries varieties to ppc arch family.
        - include tdigest.c tkey.c and trpmio.c to "make dist".
        - re-enable dependency resolution source from package NVR.
        - rename pmac to ppcmac.
        - ia64: revert -O0 compilation.
        - upgrade to db-3.3.11 final.
        - fix: don't segfault when presented with rpm-2.4.10 packaging (#49688).
        - fix: --noscripts is another multimode option.
        - add tmpdir to configure db3 tmpdir into chroot tree.
        - permit lazy db opens within chroot.
        - fix: diddle dbenv path to accomodate backing store reopen in chroot.
        - add support for mips (#49283).
        - add __as, _build_arch, and __cxx macros (#36662, #36663, #49280).
        - detailed build package error messages.
        - fix: i18n tags not terminated correctly with NUL (#50304).
        - add explicit casts to work around a s390 compiler problem.
        - fix: autoconf glob tests (#50845).
        - portability: some compilers squawk at return ((void) foo()) (#50419).
        - remove fdFileno() from librpmio, use inline version instead (#50420).
        - fix: linux find-requires needs quotes around [:blank:].
        - remove /var/lib/rpm/__db* cache files if %__dbi_cdb is not configured.
        - python: add hiesenbug patch.
        - add legacy (compile only) wrappers for fdFileno et al.
        - add -D_REENTRANT (note rpmlib is still not thread safe).

4.0 -> 4.0.[12]
        - add doxygen and lclint annotations most everywhere.
        - rip out rpm{get,put}text, use getpo.sh and specspo instead.
        - consistent return for all signature verification.
        - use enums for almost all rpmlib #define's.
        - API: change rpmProblem typedef to pass by reference, not value.
        - unify rpmError and rpmMessge interfaces through rpmlog.
        - collect and display rpm build error messages at end of build.
        - don't trim leading ./ in rpmCleanPath() (#14961).
        - order packages using tsort, clipping PreReq:'s in dependency loops.
        - fix: avoid calling getpass twice as side effect of xstrdup macro
                (katzj@linuxpower.org) (#17672).
        - handle possible db3 dependency on -lpthread more gracefully.
        - fix: more (possible) xstrdup side effects.
        - detect (still need to test) rdonly linux file systems.
        - check available inodes as well as blocks on mounted file systems.
        - pass rpmTransactionSet, not elements, to installBinaryPackage et al.
        - verify MD5 sums of payload files when unpacking archive.
        - fix: runTriggers was not adding countCorrection.
        - add cscope/ctags (Rodrigo Barbosa<rodrigob@conectiva.com.br>).
        - remove getMacroBody() from rpmio API.
        - hide libio lossage in prototype, not API.
        - add brp-strip-shared script <rodrigob@conectiva.com.br>.
        - better item/task progress bars <rodrigob@conectiva.com.br>.
        - add support for SHA1 as well as MD5 message digests.
        - add rpmGetRpmlibProvides() to retrieve rpmlib(...) provides
                (Pawel A. Gajda<mis@k2.net.pl>).
        - add support for unzip <rodrigob@conectiva.com.br>
        - load headers as single contiguous region.
        - add region marker as RPM_BIN_TYPE in packages and database.
        - fix: don't headerCopy() relocateable packages if not relocating.
        - fine-grained Requires, remove install PreReq's from Requires db.
        - fix: duplicate headerFree() on installBinaryPackage() error return.
        - fix: segfault on exit of "rpm -qp --qf '%{#fsnames}' pkg" (#20595).
        - hpux w/o -D_OPEN_SOURCE has not h_errno.
        - syntax to specify source of Requires: (PreReq: now legacy).
        - md5 sums are little endian (no swap) so big endian needs the swap.
        - merge signatures into header after reading from package.
        - RPM_BIN_TYPE malloc'ed when retrieved through headerGetEntry().
        - add headerFreeData() to free any data malloc'ed during retrieval.
        - preserve exact image of original header when installing/upgrading.
        - add missing headerFree for legacy signature header.
        - fix: removed packages leaked DIRINDEXES tag data.
        - reload tags added during install when loading header from rpmdb.
        - avoid brp-compress hang with both compressed/uncompressed man pages.
        - improved find-{requires,provides} for aix4/hpux/irix6/osf.
                Tim Mooney<mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>
        - portability: remove use of GNU make subst in lib/Makefile (Joe Orton).
        - python: bind package removal (#21274).
        - autoconfigure building python bindings.
        - autoconfigure generating rpm API doco.
        - fix: don't fdFree in rpmVerifyScript, rpmtransFree does already.
        - use package version 3 if --nodirtokens is specified.
        - add package names to problem sets early, don't save removed header.
        - make sure that replaced tags in region are counted in headerSizeof().
        - support for dmalloc debugging.
        - filter region tags in headerNextIterator, exit throut headerReload.
        - add rpmtransGetKeys() to retrieve transaction keys in tsort'ed order.
        - python bindings for rpmtransGetKeys().
        - fix: include alignment in count when swabbing header region.
        - handle added dirtoken tags (mostly) correctly with header regions.
        - add FHS doc/man/info dirs, diddle autoconf goo.
        - fix: headerUnload handles headers w/o regions correctly on rebuilddb.
        - resurrect rpmrc Provides: as well as implicit dependency on packge
                info.
        - change dependency loop message to RPMMESS_WARNING to use stderr, not
                stdout.
        - fix: segfault on build path, ignore deleted drips.
        - gendiff: generate ChangeLog patches more intelligently (#22356).
        - identify install scriptlet failures with the name of the scriptlet.
        - handle install chroot's identically throughout the install process.
        - add rpmlib(HeaderLoadSortsTags) for tracking header regions
                "just in case".
        - create _tmppath on the fly if not present.
        - remove /etc/rpm/macros.db1 configuration file if db3 rebuilt.
        - whiteout mozilla loop for 7.1.
        - immutable headers, once installed by rpm3, need to lose immutablity.
        - fix: removed headers from db need a headerCopy().
        - send query/verify output through rpmlog().
        - resurrect rpmErrorSetCallback() and rpmErrorString().
        - use malloc'ed buffer for large queries.
        - fix: avoid FAT and other brain-dead file systems that have not inodes.
        - fix: hack around alpha mis-compilation signature problems.
        - rpmmodule.c(handleDbResult): return empty list when nothing matches.
        - (non-linux): move stubs.c to rpmio (#21132).
        - (python): bind initdb (#20988).
        - (popt): fix float/double handling (#19701).
        - (popt): non-linux needs <float.h> (#22732).
        - (popt): add POPT_ARGFLAG_OPTIONAL for long options with optional arg.
        - (popt): diddle auto-help to include type of arg expected.
        - use popt autohelp for rpm helper binaries.
        - fix: avoid locale issues with strcasecmp/strncasecmp (#23199).
        - remove almost all explicit uses of stderr in rpmlib using rpmError().
        - fix: pass scriptlet args, as in %post -p "/sbin/ldconfig -n /lib".
                (Rodrigo Barbosa)
        - fix: 3 packages from Red Hat 5.2 had bogus %verifyscript tag.
        - tsorted packages processed in successor count order.
        - fix: resurrect --excludepath (#19666).
        - fix: digests on input FD_t dinna work.
        - fix: remove rebuilddb debugging leakage.
        - successors from tsort are processed in presentation order.
        - fix: find-requires.perl needed update (#23450).
        - fix: don't hang on build error.
        - fix: remove "error: " prefix from signature verification message.
        - hack: permit installer to determine package ordering using 1000003 tag.
        - fix: extra newline in many error messages (#23947).
        - fix: rpm -Va with db1 needs per-iterator, not per-index, offset.
        - add install/remove transaction id tags.
        - tsort prefers presentation order.
        - 1st crack at Mandrake specific per-platform macros.
        - fix: insure that %lang scopes over hard links correctly.
        - fix: rpmCleanPath was nibbling at .. in macrofiles incorrectly.

3.0.6 -> 4.0
        - use DIRNAMES/BASENAMES/DIRINDICES not FILENAMES in packages and db.
        - API: change dbi to pass by reference, not value.
        - cram all of db1, db_185, and db2 interfaces into rpmlib.
        - convert db1 -> db2 on-disk format using --rebuilddb.
        - add db3 to the pile, isolate all with incremental link and vectors.
        - prefer db3 as default.
        - permit db3 configuration using macros.
        - create dbi from template rather than passed args.
        - use hashed access for package headers.
        - db3: save join keys in endian neutral binary format.
        - treat legacy falloc.c as "special" db[01] index for package headers.
        - API: pass *SearchIndex() length of key (0 will use strlen(key)).
        - API: remove rpmdb{First,Next}RecNum routines.
        - add explcit "Provides: name = [epoch:]version-release" to headers.
        - fix: cpio.c: pre-, not post-, decrement the link count.
                (from Fabrice Bellet <Fabrice.Bellet@creatis.insa-lyon.fr>)
        - make db indices as lightweight as possible, with per-dbi config.
        - db1.c will never be needed, eliminate.
        - API: merge rebuilddb.c into rpmdb.c.
        - API: replace rpmdbUpdateRecord with rpmdbSetIteratorModified.
        - API: replace rpmdbFindByLabel with RPMDBI_LABEL iteration.
        - API: replace rpmdbGetRecord with iterators.
        - API: replace findMatches with iterators.
        - Filter DB_INCOMPLETE on db->sync, it's usually harmless.
        - Add per-transaction cache of resolved dependencies (aka Depends).
        - Do lazy dbi{Open,Close} throughout.
        - Attempt fine grained dbi cursors throughout.
        - fix: free iterator *after* loop, not during.
        - fix: Depends needed keylen in dbiPut, rpmdbFreeIterator after use.
        - Rename db0.c to db1.c, resurrect db2.c (from db3.c).
        - simplify --last popt alias, date like -qi (bjerrick@easystreet.com).
        - fix: alloca'd memory used outside of scope (alpha segfault).
        - fix: define/eval options assumed sizeof(int) == sizeof(void *).
        - fix: sparc64 per-platform directory shouldn't be sparc64linux.
        - fix: (segfault) verify needs rpmdb while query does not.
        - add calculated nlink field to -qlv output (like ls -al).
        - detects and builds properly against the new fopencookie API in
          glibc 2.2.
        - change popt exec alias in oreder to exec rpm children.
        - split rpm into 5 pieces along major mode fault lines with popt glue.
        - turn on new, more complete version of %%configure.
        - add %%makeinstall analogue of new %%configure for autoconf packages.
        - mark packaging with version 4 to reflect filename/provide changes.
        - change next version from 3.1 to 4.0 to reflect package format change.
        - change %configure, add %makeinstall macros to handle FHS changes.
        - add optflags for i486 and i586.
        - fix: segfault with legacy packages missing RPMTAG_FILEINODES.
        - require db3 in default configuration.
        - create rpmio directory for librpmio.
        - make librpmio standalone.
        - fix: avoid clobbering db cursor in removeBinaryPackage.
        - expose cursors in dbi interfaces, remove internal cursors.
        - remove incremental link.
        - portability: sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1.
        - fix: don't count removed files if removed packages is empty set.
        - fix: permit '\0' as special case key (e.g. "/" in Basenames).
        - require --rebuilddb to convert db1 -> db3, better messages.
        - fix: open all db indices before performing chroot.
        - fix: typo in brp-compress caused i18n man pages not to compress.
        - API: uncouple fadio from rest of rpmio.
        - API: externalize legacy fdOpen interface for rpmfind et al.
        - put version on rpmpopt filename to avoid legacy filename collision.
        - change optflags for i386.
        - multilib patch, take 1.
        - add pre-transaction syscall's to handle /etc/init.d change.
        - don't bother saving '/' as fingerprint subdir.
        - prefix payload paths with "./", otherwise "/" can't be represented.
        - fix: compressFilelist broke when fed '/'.
        - fix: typo in --last popt alias (#12690).
        - fix: clean file paths before performing -qf (#12493).
        - remove build mode help from rpm.c, use rpmb instead.
        - fix: set multilibno on sparc per-platform config.
        - fix: legacy requires './' payload prefix to be omitted for rpm itself.
        - fix: remove verbose database +++/--- messages to conform to doco.
        - add S_ISLNK pre-transaction syscall test.
        - fix: initialize pretransaction argv (segfault).
        - fix: check rpmlib features w/o database (and check earlier as well).
        - rip out pre-transaction syscalls, more design is needed.
        - remove (dead) dependency checks on implicitly provided package names.
        - remove (dead) rpmdb API code in python bindings.
        - fix: make set of replaced file headers unique.
        - fix: don't attempt dbiOpen with anything but requested dbN.
        - create rpmbuild/rpmquery/rpmverify/rpmsign symlinks.
        - fix: look for any/all dbapi when rebuilding.
        - link rpm2cpio dynamically since cpio is linked dynamically.
        - fix: uniqify dependency problems when printing (#14034).
        - fix: segfault on erase if filestates is missing in header (#14679).
        - fix: popt POST callbacks typo.
        - fix: -Va broken, make db cursors per-iterator, not per-dbi.
        - fix: segfault when globbing on "" (#15593).
        - fix: rebuild db1 -> db3 ate 1st header (#16263).

3.0.5 -> 3.0.6
        - python bindings to query and verify signatures.
        - add callbacks on package erasure.
        - fix: preserve cpio errno when using Fclose with libio.
        - fix: initialize sigs everywhere in python header object.
        - translate rpm.8 man page (Peter Ivanyi <ivanyi@internet.sk>).
        - popt: support for float/double args.
        - fix: honor --test when doing --freshen.
        - add alpha* architectures.

3.0.4 -> 3.0.5
        - configure.in fiddles for BSD systems (Patrick Schoo).
        - solaris2.6: avoid bsearch with empty dir list (Ric Klaren - klaren@cs.utwente.nl)
        - include RPM-GPG-KEY in file manifest.
        - Add ia64 and sparc64 changes.
        - rpm.spec: add per-platform sub-directories.
        - FreeBSD fixes (bero@redhat.com).
        - handle version 4 packaging as input.
        - builds against bzip2 1.0
        - fix: resurrect symlink unique'ifying property of finger prints.
        - fix: broken glob test with empty build directory (Geoff Keating).
        - fix: create per-platform directories correctly.
        - update brp-* scripts from rpm-4.0, enable in per-platform config.
        - alpha: add -mieee to default optflags.
        - add RPMTAG_OPTFLAGS, configured optflags when package was built.
        - add RPMTAG_DISTURL for rpmfind-like tools (content unknown yet).
        - teach brp-compress about /usr/info and /usr/share/info as well.
        - update macros.in from rpm-4.0 (w/o dbi configuration).
        - fix: don't expand macros in false branch of %if (kasal@suse.cz).
        - fix: macro expansion problem and clean up (#11484) (kasal@suse.cz).
        - uname on i370 has s390 as arch (#11456).
        - python: initdb binding (Dan Burcaw <dburcaw@terraplex.com>).
        - internalize --freshen (Gordon Messmer <yinyang@eburg.com>).
        - support for separate source/binary compression policy.
        - support for bzip payloads.
        - fix: payload compression tag not nul terminated.
        - identify package when install scriptlet fails (#12448).
        - remove (unused) RPMTAG_CAPABILITY.
        - remove (legacy) use of RPMTAG_{OBSOLETES,PROVIDES} internally.
        - remove (legacy) support for version 1 packaging.
        - remove (legacy) support for converting gdbm databases.
        - eliminate unused headerGz{Read,Write}.
        - support for rpmlib(...) internal feature dependencies.
        - display rpmlib provides when invoked with --showrc.
        - fix: compare versions if doing --freshen.
        - disable rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) by defining _noVersionedDependencies.

3.0.3 -> 3.0.4
        - use compressed filenames on install side.
        - start unifying FD types, CFD_t now gone.
        - check for memory leaks (almost all leaks are plugged).
        - fix: resurrect multiple target platform builds.
        - freshen.sh: detect when all packages are up to date (Ian Macdonald).
        - fix: typo in error message (#6858).
        - add/update dependency scripts (Ken Estes).
        - use directory tokens internally to reduce memory usage.
        - permit --whatprovides to lookup file dependencies.
        - fail to package if absolute symlink points within build root.
        - initial version of check-prereqs.
        - expose enough of legacy fdio interface to compile rpmfind/rpm2html.
        - fix: Fopen should use 0666 as default (umask will be applied later).
        - fix: default for rd_timeoutsecs is 1 sec (avoid ufdio assertion).
        - fix: new FILENAMES tags require package index, not pointer in lookups.
        - rename new FILENAMES tags to BASENAMES/DIRNAMES/DIRINDEXES.
        - fix: don't look at password when searching urlCache.
        - add contentLength sanity check on rpmdb headerWrite.
        - fix: fprint abort on stat("/", ...) in empty chroots.
        - perform glob on remote ftp query args.
        - fix: ftpAbort must close the data channel to read abort status.
        - perform glob on remote ftp install args.
        - fix: reload macros from cmd line when re-reading config files.
        - fix: compressFileList was over-generating dirNames.
        - fix: alAddPackage sorted dirNames too soon, destroying dirMapping.
        - expose enough of legacy fdio interface to compile gnorpm.
        - fix: missing strdup when overriding buildroot from command line
          argument (#1026,#5006).
        - diddle some names to keep my C++ brethern happy (i.e. kpackage port).
        - fix: add ufdSeek.
        - build popt (with libpopt.so*) as a sub-package of rpm.
        - split python bindings into a separate sub-package of rpm.
        - add ja translation and man pages (Kanda Mitsuru kanda@nn.iij4u.or.jp).
        - fix: fp.subDir was incorrectly set to NULL in sparse chroot's.
        - fix: manageFile needs to and with O_WRONLY(=1), not O_RDONLY(=0).
        - fix: resurrect failed glob error message during build.
        - add several BuildRoot FTW policies.
        - add manpage for gendiff (pbrown@redhat.com).
        - updated sv.po (goeran@uddeborg.pp.se) (#8349).
        - configurable PATH for install %pre/%post et al scriptlets.
        - use only %_install_langs, not LINGUAS/LANG when deciding to install.
        - configurable compression type/level for package payloads.
        - default value for %_install_langs is all.
        - fix: resurrect relative path's in fprint lookup queries.
        - extract spec files from bzip'ped tarballs too on tar builds.
        - add %_rebuilddbpath macro to permit rebuilding db in new location.
        - updated perl scripts (Ken Estes).
        - fix: on --rebuilddb, make sure new/old paths are not the same (#8752).
        - fix: on --erase, segfault caused by "" prefix.
        - explicitly expand file lists in writeRPM for rpmputtext.
        - {Free,Open}BSD find-{provides,requires} (suzukis@file.phys.tohoku.ac.jp).
        - new rpm-build package to isolate rpm dependencies on perl/bash2.
        - always remove duplicate identical package entries on --rebuilddb.
        - add scripts for autogenerating CPAN dependencies.
        - add sl.po from Primoz Peterlin <peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>.
        - updated sv.po from <goeran@uddeborg.pp.se>.
        - macro expansion (and absolute path) in %files -f arg (#9508,#9091).
        - permit cli setting of build root policies.
        - fix: filter excluded paths before adding install prefixes (#8709).
        - add i18n lookaside to PO catalogue(s) for i18n strings.
        - try for /etc/rpm/macros.specspo so that specspo autoconfigures rpm.
        - per-platform configuration factored into /usr/lib/rpm subdir.
        - sparc-sun-solaris2.6 portability check.
        - simpler hpux.prov script (Tim Mooney).
        - portability: skip bzip2 if not available.
        - portability: skip gzseek if not available (zlib-1.0.4).
        - portability: skip personality if not available (linux).
        - portability: always include arpa/inet.h (HP-UX).
        - portability: don't use id -u (Brandon Allbery).
        - portability: don't chown/chgrp -h w/o lchown.
        - portability: splats in rpm.spec to find /usr/{share,lib}/locale/* .
        - fix: better filter in linux.req to avoid ARM specific objdump output.
        - fix: use glibc 2.1 glob/fnmatch everywhere.
        - fix: noLibio = 0 on Red Hat 4.x and 5.x.
        - fix: typo in autodeps/linux.req.
        - configure noarch compatibility in rpmrc for ia64.

3.0.2 -> 3.0.3
        - add --eval to find result of macro expansion.
        - add configure scaffolding to support rpm-4.0 packages.
        - include shared libs in rpm-devel (no versioning yet).
        - add epoch (as [0-9]*:version-release) to install dependency parse.
        - move install/erase major modes into rpmlib.
        - move checksig/resign major modes into rpmlib.
        - add python bindings to rpm-devel (linux only).
        - make query (rpm -qvl) behave like (POSIX?) ls for older files (#4050).
        - fix: %if parsing skipped 3 chars too many.
        - permit multiline macro expansions with comments and %if.
        - add pl translation and man pages (PLD team - from Tomasz Kloczko).
        - fix: incomplete cleanup if --rebuilddb fails (#4115).
        - add versions to provides.
        - fix: sanity test on specfile fails when encountering i18n chars.
        - print all dependencies for each package at end of build.
        - the death of RPMSENSE_SERIAL, use [epoch:]version[-release] instead.
        - add _mandir/_infodir macro expansions to docdirs (Tomasz Kloczko).
        - add post install configurable dependency checking.
        - fix: segfault on --rebuild (#4185).
        - macro fixes (Benedict Lofstedt, #4220):
           expand %# just like %{#} (and with same value as shell analogues).
           macro defaults for *, 0, and # if no args specified.
           getopt on non-linux requires optind to be saved/restored.
        - fix: don't remove file until last occurence in transaction (#4291).
        - resuscitate net shared paths (#4330).
        - fix: macro table cannot contain NULL pointers (#4263).
        - fix: last char in rpmrc w/o terminating newline lost (#4361).
        - prepare for handling \r in macro exapnsions.
        - fix: n>1 occurrences of %config(noreplace) should not FA_CREATE (#4355).
        - fix: use pgp5 rather than pgp-2.6.3 if both are in %_pgpbin (#4564).
        - match "de" when locale is specified as "de_DE.ISO-8859-1@Munich".
        - add versions to obsoletes.
        - add %_install_langs to configure languages to be installed.
        - add LC_ALL/LC_MESSAGES to query locale search.
        - fix: segfault with "--sign" w/o supplying files (#4651).
        - add headerWrite return code and check for errors.
        - update python bindings from anaconda.
        - add versions to prereq.
        - add syntax sensitive implict prereq on rpm-3.0.3.
        - fix: don't successfully match with strncasecmp("sparc", "sparc64", 5)
        - add sparcv9 architecture.
        - add --freshen to usage message (#4823).
        - suggested changes to docs from Ken Estes (#4451).
        - link libbz2.a statically to avoid rpm->bzip2 dependence for now.
        - Tru64: avoid find-requires variable size limit (Tim Mooney).
        - Solaris: use getpassphrase rather than getpass if available.
        - pgp and pgp5 have compatible RSA signature (#4780).
        - fix: avoid db problems with self-obsoleting packages on install.
        - glibc2: always enable dynamic mtrace if available.
        - fix: versioned provides devolved to existence test with conflicts.
        - fix: with unspecified epochs, skip dependency epoch compare.
        - python: shared module linked correctly.
        - do versioned provides/conflicts resolution correctly.
        - rpmpopt: display versioned provides/obsoletes.
        - revert to shared libbz2.so now that bzip2 is in base install.
        - fix: command line install had header memory leak.
        - check for NULL on all memory allocations.
        - free rpmrc mallocs on exit.
        - glibc2: permit run time leak detection.
        - fix: removed files fingerprint memory leak.
        - fix: resurrect allfiles flag from rpm-2.5.x.
        - fix: version compares compatible with epoch-less requires/conflicts.
        - fix: rpm-2.5.1 had file list w/o leading / fix.
        - portatbility fiddles (solaris).
        - create binary rpm directory (e.g. .../%{_target_cpu}) on the fly.
        - updated pl/rpm.8 (PLD team).
        - new find req/prov scripts for non-linux platforms (Tim Mooney).
        - fix: non-GNU globs burp on repeated '/' in patterns.
        - dumb cpp's want white space around lclint annotations (Tim Mooney).
        - aix: aix.req broken by cut-and-paste (Tim Mooney).

3.0.1 -> 3.0.2
        - eliminate armv4 entries from rpmrc (Andrew E. Mileski).
        - permit multiple "Provides: " lines in rpmrc (#2999).
        - add BuildConflicts: and BuildRequires: in spec file and src rpm.
        - fix: bigendian's with longlong file sizes (e.g. IRIX) dinna work.
        - move printDep* routines into rpmlib for gnorpm et al.
        - updated ru translation (Sergey Kubushin).
        - add vpkg-provides.sh (Tim Mooney).
        - don't clobber LDFLAGS in top-level Makefile (Tim Mooney).
        - fix: build root from cmd line did not set macro %buildroot (#1026).
        - fix: resurrect "rpm -Va --nofiles" (verify dependencies only) (#3111).
        - rpm-devel should require popt (#3125).
        - don't spin while waiting for delayed requires/provides input (#3289).
        - common parse for all dependency token syntax.
        - eliminate find-requirements on libNoVersion (Red Hat linux only).
        - add new-fangled requires on "libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1)" (sparc-linux only).
        - MiNT port (Guido Flohr <gufl0000@stud.uni-sb.de>).
        - fix: --rebuilddb with --root dinna remove directory (Michael Andres).
        - fix: false fingerprint stat cache hit -- "the tetex problem" (#2727).
        - fix: bsearch needs macro table sorted after undefine. (#3713).
        - fix: --checksig segfault with odd pgp output (e.g. w/o ~/.pgp) (#3720)
        - avoid numeric overflow in version comparison (Thayne Harbaugh<tharbaug@liberate.com>).
        - move url.c and ftp.c to rpmlib right next to query.
        - 12 more dead strtoks.
        - changelog stamp broken w/ big endian 64 bit time_t (Stephane Erania).
        - tru64: use /bin/sh not /usr/bin/ksh in find-requires.
        - 32Mb (~16x largest known) sanity check on header size.

3.0 -> 3.0.1
        - fix: %verifyscript resurrected (Shing-Gene Yung).
        - fix: % before non-alphabetic non-macro special now passed unscathed.
        - fix: noarch header gets initialized differently.
        - fix: $2 to triggerpostun scripts was wrong
        - fix: --querybypkg in man page should be --filesbypkg
        - fix: optflags not implicitly set to canonical arch value.
        - fix: prefer pgp2.6.3 over pgp5 if both are installed.
        - make sure that rpm-the-package auto-requires glibc.
        - add rpmputtext/rpmgettext to rpm package.
        - fix: non-apache servers need "GET ... HTTP/1.0" by the book.
        - fix: %doc wrongly inherits lang from last entry in %files.
        - resurrect toplevel tar target.
        - spec file removal separate from source removal (Shing-Gene Yung).
        - add rpm prefix to MD5 routines to avoid name conflict on solaris.
        - fix: resurrect -Vp, -Vf and -Vg functionality.
        - colesce query and verify modes.
        - better cpio error message if package contains missing hard links.
        - fix: shared file not skipped when removed.
        - fix: conversion script left off leading underscores.
        - another strtok bites the dust.
        - fix: prevent return code wrap during packagage checking/resigning.
        - permit multiple %lang(xx) markers on elements in %files.
        - permit %lang(xx,yy,zz) constructs --  2 more dead strtoks.
        - fix: --prefix should work properly during package installs.
        - add librpmbuild.a to the file list.

2.94 -> 2.95
        - fix: last update transaction set segfault bug in installer.
        - improved checks for statfs (Tim Mooney).
        - remove inconsistent use of __P((...)) throughout.
        - non-static inline functions caused IRIX cc pain.
        - CPIOERR_CHECK_ERRNO masking caused AIX cc warnings.
        - solaris 2.6+ needs statvfs.
        - check build prerequisites before building from specfile.
        - convert per-system configuration in /etc/rpmrc to macros.

2.93 -> 2.94
        - fix: segfault while parsing target string.
        - fix: os was not initialized with "--target i586".
        - fix: --prefix resurrected.
        - non-linux, non-gcc portability fixes (Tim Mooney).
        - default to static libs only (remove implied support for shared libs).

2.92 -> 2.93
        - eliminate old rpmrc configuration syntax.
        - pgp5 support (Carlo Wood <carlo@runaway.xs4all.nl>)
        - fix: segfault from double close on ftpGetFileDesc->ftpAbort path.
        - fix: don't add header if signature generation failed (Carlo Wood).
        - more DU 4.0D fiddles (Shing-Gene Yung).
        - fix: segfault from unknown uid/gid -- use builder's uid/gid instead.
        - autoReq/autoProv now per-package.
        - fix: avoid segfault using --prefix until ewt fixes.
        - add --define "%foo %bar" option.
        - dump macros to same fd as --showrc uses.
        - add %GNUconfigure for full-blown package regeneration.
        - fix: RPM_ARCH/RPM_OS had wrong values.
        - fix: create ppc directories correctly.
        - (re-)enable fixowner/fixgroup macros.
        - fix: specfile BuildRoot was masking rpmrc macro.
        - expand twiddles in macrofiles list.
        - add explicit macrofiles path to rpmrc.
        - add per-target macrofiles to search path.
        - take globalMacroContext out of macro api.
        - fix: flush all macros between builds.
        - add name/version/release macros during src.rpm install.
        - attempt mkdir sourcedir/specdir during src.rpm install.

2.91 -> 2.92
        - update with libtool-2.4f.
        - DU 4.0D fiddles (Shing-Gene Yung<shing@cz3.nus.edu.sg>)
        - change support@redhat.com to rpm-list@redhat.com.
        - fix: with --target=i686, pass macro %_arch=i386.
        - fix: rpm --target=arch ... resurrected.
        - fix: rpm -q --specfile --specedit now works even with BuildArch:.
        - fix: nested strtok's is a no-no.
        - added disk space checking

2.90 -> 2.91
        - fix: memory leaks in rpmRunTransactions plugged.
        - fix: build of packages w/o BuildRoot segfault.
        - permit substitution of I18N strings from PO meta-catalogues.
        - add callbacks for installer updates while doing URL xfers.
        - resurrect http queries/verifies.
        - create rpmbzio.c to avoid implicit dependence on libbz2 for installer.
        - spec files can provide /filename now
        - added rpmdbOpenForTraversal()
        - proxy http (Alex deVries).
        - add BuildPrereq: in spec file and src rpm.
        - added rpmtransSetScriptFd()
        - fixed config file problems during chroot upgrades
        - fixed %attr brokenness for directories
        - augment linux provides/requires for glibc 2.1 backward compatibility.
        - fixed --noscript, --notriggers, --excludedocs, and a bunch
          of other install/remove flags
        - fixed noreplace handling
        - complain about old packages being installed

2.5.x -> 2.90
        - added --excludepath
        - identify missing keys by type (Toshio Kuratomi).
        - package install/removal much smarter about symlinks
        - redid install/remove API to allow transaction semantics
        - support for GPG (Toshio Kuratomi <badger@prtr-13.ucsc.edu>)
        - file lookup finally sane wrt symbolic links :-)
        - fileindex format changed -- rebuilddb is necessary for rpm 2.90!!
        - --rebuilddb doesn't open old index files
        - permit http:// and file:// url's as well as ftp://.
        - change --rcfile to permit colon separated file list.
        - compile in defaults from rpmrc/macros.
        - finish hiding rpmdb index record data ("matches").
        - implement abstract fd type almost everywhere.
        - update and rename Czech (Pavel Makovec <pavelm@terminal.cz>)
        - augment --showrc with -v, only display set variables without -v.
        - add macrofiles variable, permit second entry to initMacros().
        - add config.h defines for paths to find-requires et. al.
        - add readRPM to libbuild, headerGetLangs to librpm.
        - permit rpm to be built in a sub-directory (--srcdir=DIR).
        - configure using automake.
        - arch/os (and platform) should be case insensitive everywhere forever.
        - attempt to deal rationally with os as "Linux" or "linux".
        - add generalized expression handler (Tom Dyas<tdyas@remus.rutgers.edu>)
        - use /usr/lib/rpm/mkinstalldirs if mkdir -p fails.
        - more portable dirent handling (Hermann Lauer).
        - add Slovak translation (Stanislav Meduna <stano@trillian.eunet.sk>)
        - gettextify rpmMessage/rpmError/fprintf messages.
        - update po files; add cz to catalogs.
        - cpio_gzip: dup the fd before doing gzdopen (Thanks Erik!)
        - add --noLang to skip non-default languages.
        - writeRPM can now copy cpio archive from fd.
        - preliminary macro environment as side effect of rpmrc parse.
        - macro handling in rpmlib -- rework include: tag with macro expansion.
        - first attempt at librpmbuild API.
        - fixed lib/rpmrc.c to accept include: tags (AdV)
        - fixed the CHANGES file to reflect that this is 2.9, not 3.0 (AdV)
        - aggregate system includes into system.h.
        - rearrange functions to minimize exported routines in librpmbuild API.
        - generalize cpio I/O to eliminate pipe to exec'd gzip on install.
        - add {init,add,expand}Macro args everywhere (new macro.c compatibility)
        - add new fully recursive macro.c
        - there must be a { between two % in a query format (unless %% is used)

2.5.6 -> 2.5.7:
        - permit 0x1b in specfile sanity check.
        - increase timeout in tread from 5 to 30 secs for slow links.
        - rename file before unlinking to avoid EBUSY failures.
        - headerGetEntry now returns count=0 if tag not found (Chris Blizzard).
        - resurrect osf1 as canonical os name (Time Mooney).
        - sub-packages should inheirit Prefixes tag (Ian Mortimer).
        - make '-' character illegal (again) in version/release.
        - use portable #!/bin/sh (Tim Mooney).
        - don't erase failing build script (Tim Mooney).
        - use portable mkinstalldirs (Tim Mooney).
        - irix6 autodeps were dup'd (Shing-Gene Yung <shing@cz3.nus.edu.sg>).
        - getservbyname needed ntohs().
        - propagate "const char *" into rpmlib prototypes.
        - use "original db-1.85" if available (Raw Hide glibc 2.1).
        - make sure files to sign exist before asking for the pass phrase

2.5.5 -> 2.5.6:
        - ultrapenguin 1.1.9 sparc64 changes.
        - attempt ftp ABOR on query/verify url's.
        - cache open ftp control descriptor with password.
        - verify needed same realpath semantics as query.
        - plug fd leak in urlGetFile().
        - translate cpio errors using cpioStrerror.
        - display "..?....." rather than "..5....." for unreadable files.
        - run time (rather than compile time) host endian check.
        - caldera patches (ray@Caldera.DE)
        - added ARM patches.
        - fix incorrect directory permissions using %attr/%defattr.
        - permit "rpm -q --specfile ... file.spec" queries.
        - strncasecmp on spec file separators (KDE has %Description).
        - remove redundant md5 computation on uninstall.
        - permit --rmsource --force even if sources/patches are missing.
        - don't compute md5sum on non-file %config objects. (from Jos Vos)
        - check arch only on RPMBUILD_{PREP,BUILD,INSTALL,PACKAGEBINARY}.
        - configure.in: set default value for RPM. (Tim Mooney)
        - add new Epoch: keyword just like Serial:.
        - update Russian translation w man pages.
        - solaris: don't attempt static link. (Tim Mooney)
        - fix: timeCheck in rpm.c should be unsigned long. (Tim Mooney)
        - osf: prov searches only shared libraries. (Tim Mooney)
        - solaris: set PATH in prov/req scripts. (Tim Mooney)
        - fix: ignore modes on symlinks. (Tim Mooney)
        - sub-packages inherit RPMTAG_EPOCH (just like RPMTAG_VERSION/RELEASE).
        - fix off-by-1 alloca that prevented relocating /.
        - there must be a { between two % in a query format (unless %% is
          used).

2.5.4 -> 2.5.5:
        - permit rpm to be built in a sub-directory (--srcdir=DIR).
        - return CPIO_BAD_HEADER instead of exiting. (Scott M. Stone)
        - untranslate "(none)" for auto relocating script wrappers.
        - non-linux arch/os identification (Eugene Kanter).
        - portable mode_t/pid_t typedefs.
        - fix check for trailing / in Prefix:
        - remove 2 character language name assumption.
        - add /usr/lib/rpm/find-lang.sh (W. L. Estes <wlestes@uncg.edu>)
        - miscellaneous portability cruft (Eugene Kanter).
        - Makefile: don't use ln -sf.
        - getOutputFrom(): fix race between last read on pipe and child death
          (exacerbated in 2.5.4).
        - rpm.spec: create /usr/src/redhat/* in %install.

2.5.3 -> 2.5.4:
        - expand args using popt on pre-rpmReadConfigFiles arg pass.
        - skip arch checks if only packaging source rpm.
        - add license field to rpmpopt -qi alias.
        - provides/obsoletes requires tokens that begin with alnum or _.
        - non-zero exit status for verify failures.
        - hpux does setreuid differently (Hermann Lauer).
        - check for setreuid portably (Eugene Kanter).
        - add Serbian translation (Zoltan Csala <zcsala@iname.com>).
        - arch/os tables were not being initialized  for noarch builds.
        - quote users/groups/filenames in --setugids.
        - add Russian translation w man pages (Serguei Koubouchine <ksi@gu.net>)
        - fix virtual file attribute bug that skipped all files in binary rpm.
        - eliminate infinite loop with missing tmpdir (Trent Jarvi).
        - os_canon for CYGWIN32_NT/95.
        - rationalize autoconf detection of gzip/bzip2.
        - restore backward compatible rpmrc/rpmpopt symlinks.
        - update pt_BR translations (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo).
        - permit --{buildroot,timecheck,test,sign} with -tX (Toshio Kuratomi).
        - fix database rebuilds with triggers (Steve Sanberg).
        - diagnostic message if unreadable/short source or patch file.
        - eliminate redundant close in provide/require processing.
        - solaris portability patch resurrection (Steve Sanberg).
        - permit autogen.sh to work on non "prefix=/usr" hosts.
        - add %license/%readme virtual file attributes.
        - align "Build Host:" with other fields.

2.5.2 -> 2.5.3:
        - copy changelog tags to sub-packages just before packaging.
        - added EPOCH handling to supplement serial numbers
        - add RPMTAG_EPOCH and RPMTAG_CAPABILITY init to 0.
        - fix infinite recursion on non-ERANGE return from getcwd() during
          install (Matt Wilson).
        - rm .depend for multiple builds in same tree (Will Partain)
        - addFile: fix special case of "/" in %files.
        - better query semantics with symlinks (Tim Mooney)
        - build.c: fix incorrect check for successful open
        - allow %define with leading whitespace
        - use /usr/lib/rpm for rpmpopt, rpmrc, find-requires, find-provides
        - added popt 'exec' functionality
        - made --rebuilddb a bit more robust by checking data types
        - added --freshen via popt exec stuff
        - fixed spelling of expected
        - updated de.po (Karl Eichwalder)
        - do a better job of checking for a spec file in tarballs
          (Pavel Roskin)
        - fixed --triggers alias (Michael Andres)
        - added :hex query format
        - fixed --querytags to display virtual tags
?????   - added --triggers and --triggered by to man page, help, and usage
?????   - added support for epochs

2.5.1 -> 2.5.2:
        - added -bs to build just a source package
        - included irix.req and irix.prov (Tim Mooney)
        - copy CHANGELOG* and URL tags to all subpackages
        - follow symlinks when packaging sources
        - handle %files -f with no %setup (no build directory)
        - fixed ugly i18n header bug
        - deal with lang paths sanely when entries are missing languages
        - fix bug packing /usr/doc when last file was %dir
        - added --last alias
        - fix :depflags query format
        - Group: i18n (like Summary:)
        - make --justdb install files in normal state
        - %{fssizes} segv'd for packages with empty file lists
        - updated HP-UX, OSF1, Irix 6.x dependency scripts (Tim Mooney)
        - added arm and MachTen arch/os info
        - added --filesbypkg query format
        - updated README to have proper URLs
        - updated rpm.spec for proper paths and cleanliness
        - dependency resolution could hang when Provides: line is used in
          rpmrc (Tim Mooney)
        - updated mips rpmrc entries (Alex deVries)
        - version/release conditional triggers weren't ignoring the trigger     
          package name at the front of the TRIGGERVERSION
        - added --notriggers for -i and -e
        - made --triggers a synonym for --triggerscripts
        - ftp installs were trying to use /var/tmp/tmp
        - allow whitespace in source/patch lines
        
2.5 -> 2.5.1:
        - fail if sources are not regular files
        - wasn't catching readLine() errors
        - fixed (hopefully) temp file creation problems
        - make %doc obey --test
        - unlink before writing .rpms
        - librpm.c: added headerGzRead()/headerGzWrite()
        - set bzip2path via lib-rpmrc/configure (Toshio Kuratomi)
        - added finish translation (Raimo Koski)
        - prefer db_185.h to db.h (Christopher Seawood)
        - included updated hpux.req (Ralph Goers)
        - added aix.req (Ralph Goers)
        - updated hpux.prov, osf.req, osf.prov (Tim Mooney)
        - set file states for --justdb packages to "not installed"
        - handle missing file states properly in -e code
        - install time wasn missing for --justdb packages
        - missing parameter in an rpmError() caused segfault

2.4.109 -> 2.5:
        - fixed return code bug in build code
        - do macro expansion before %if processing
        - dep ordering returns w/ an error as soon as a prereq loop is found
        - autoreqprov flag was being ignored during builds
        - add autoreq: and autoprov:
        - missed a few unlink() when scripts failed
        - freePrefixes wasn't initialized in runScript()
        - fix typo in %triggerpostun generation
        - include icons in source packages
        - headerGetEntry() should return count of 1 when returning
          strings plucked from i18n strings
        - do not remove comments in scripts
        - save/restore existing arch when done with buildarch
        - copy the I18N table to the source header so i18n stuff works
        - fixed multiple memory leaks in install code
        - fixed bug in part recognition
        - shared files weren't being handled properly in net shared paths

2.4.108 -> 2.4.109:
        - remove icons with --rmsource
        - do dependecy generation on -bl
        - check files on all packages on -bl
        - integrate Jeff Johnson's memleak patches
        - added OSF1 autodep scripts

2.4.107 -> 2.4.108:
        - make --clean work with no %setup
        - fixed FSSIZES problem introduced in 2.4.107
        - fixed search for find-requires.sh
        - improved solaris autodeps scripts
        - automated (somewhat) the -static flag

2.4.106 -> 2.4.107:
        - --nomd5 wasn't handled properly
        - updated configure.in find-req and find-prov checks (Tim Mooney)
        - make --rmsource actually work
        - run postun triggers

2.4.105 -> 2.4.106:
        - build: only check for non-printables in first 128 chars
        - added %triggerpostun
        - linux.req generates deps for shared libs
        - added a CC=@CC@ to popt/Makefile.in
        - handle signed return types from poptGetNextOpt() properly

2.4.104 -> 2.4.105:
        - added langpatt: to rpmrc, and mark files with matches
        - added some C++ cruft to rpmlib.h
        - added find-requires and find-provides for hpux (Tim Mooney)
        - respect LINGUAS when install package files
        - added trigger support to build code
        - got rid of annoying mwftw() type warning
        - fixed many command line options which got broke by changes
          for non-gcc compilers
        - added trigger support in install code
        - added doc/triggers
        - strntoul() in lib/cpio.c was returning a pointer to freed
          memory
        - headerAppend() was doing a bad memcpy()

2.4.103 -> 2.4.104:
        - fixed popt/Makefile.in to use CPP from configure
        - use tmppath from rpmrc to for ftp'd files (rather then /var/tmp)
        - autoconf files and .depend files weren't created properly during
          make archive

2.4.102 -> 2.4.103:
        - need to create popt/configure during make archive
        - added comments about modifictation to base popt and rpmrc files
        - allow spaces in group names
        - fix bug in memory allocation of special doc stuff
        - Jeff Johnson's mode/dev fixes
        - clean up buildroot
        - be more paranoid about making temp files
        - added patches from Tim Mooney which let RPM build with non-gcc
          compilers and non-GNU versions of make

2.4.101 -> 2.4.102:
        - fixed spelling of "instchangelog" in lib-rpmrc.in
        - fixed memory leak in headerSprintf() extension cache
        - fixed memory allocation for header formatting extension cache
        - added support for INSTPREFIX virtual tag for backwards compatibility
        - cpio error codes were poorly defined, causing bad error messages
        - generates INSTPREFIXES tag properly, and sets RPM_INSTALL_PREFIX
          and RPM_INSTALL_PREFIXn environment variables
        - fixed memory leak in install code which occured when net shared paths
          were used
        - don't pass net shared path to rpmInstallPackage() -- it looks 
          directly in the rpmrc entries
        - don't remove files in netsharedpath, even for files whose states
          are not net shared
        - changed --setugids to use separate chown and chgrp programs, for
          better portability
        - popt moved to autoconf
        - Makefiles changed to allow building in a different directory then
          the source code resides in
        - finally fixed the Build Host spacing in rpmpopt

2.4.100 -> 2.4.101:
        - handle files with spaces (put double quotes around them)
        - new rpmrc setting, buildshell, can be used to set shell
          used for build scripts (default is /bin/sh)
        - fix bug where macros were being improperly set for
          Patch: and Source: lines
        - may use "instchangelog" in rpmrc to limit the maxmium number of 
          changelog entries that are stored in the database for each package
          (-1 means store all of them)
        - default instchangelog is set to 5
        - headerRemoveEntry() didn't free the item's data -- this led to
          a slight memory leak when installing packages
        - implemented generic file relocations at install time
          (use --relocate <oldpath>=<newpath>, i.e. --relocate /usr=/foo)
        - added --badreloc flag to force RPM to relocate files which packages
          haven't advertised as relocateable
        - fix return code on failed uncompresses in %prep
        - preliminary handling of bzip2 compressed files
        - differentiates between big and little endian mips
        - added support for "prefixes:" tag

2.4.99 -> 2.4.100:
        - fixed handling of --rebuild and --recompile
        - fixed rpmlibbuild.a typo in Makefile
        - fixed handling of '\' in spec files (a specific case of a more
          general bug)
        - change use of "export" to work with non-bash shells
        - compress the archives.  oops.
        - fixed bug when there is no %setup
        - added -L$(topdir)/popt to Makefile.inc

2.4.12 -> 2.4.99:
        - added many more i18n strings
        - merged in large rewrite of build code, which includes the following
          changes:
            - new option --rmsource
            - all scripts can now take -p <prog>
            - more strict about %package placement and use of main package 
              preamble
            - %attr(mode, user, group [, dirmode])
            - %defattr()
            - %defverify()
            - Root: is depricated.  Use BuildRoot: instead
            - "nosrc" sources arn't deleted when sources are removed
            - New tag DocDir: <dir> to set alternate doc dir (default is 
              /usr/doc)
            - %doc should work as expected with buildroot, prefix, DocDir:
            - all file processing is done before any packaging
            - should work with modern patch programs (later than 2.1)
            - %patch -z <arg> same as %patch -b <arg>
            - %define only defines a macro if it starts a line
            - script prog entries are now arrays (ie with arguments)
            - standard macros: tag names, buildarch, buildos, buildarch_lc, 
              buildos_lc, PATCHn, SOURCEn, PATCHURLn, SOURCEURLn, sourcedir, 
              builddir, optflags
            - deprecate require_distribution, require_icon, require_vendor
            - add RPMTAG_FILEDEVICES and RPMTAG_FILEINODES to header
            - export variables in scripts
            - fixed tag:field bug
            - %lang() in %files
            - %description -l <lang>
            - Summary(<lang>):
            - fixed read_line() termination usage
        - Makefile changes to shorten compiler lines

2.4.11 -> 2.4.12:
        - intialize reserved portion of lead when writing packages
        - fixed error messages displayed when opening the database
          fails during package installation and removal
        - query format of the form '[A%{}]' would drop the static string
        - fixed fix in 2.4.9 for empty packages which broke -qip on ftp URL's
        - fixed arch/os numbers in lead
        - added Turkish message catalog
        - -e was running scripts even w/ --test was specified

2.4.10 -> 2.4.11:
        - HAVE_SYS_SOCKET_H was mistakingly MACHINE_SYS_SOCKET_H in
          config.h.in
        - \%description was trying to do %d expansion in query formats
        - made %% work in query formats
        - fixed bug in handling characters before array
        - let mips build noarch packages
        - --setperms would set wrong permissions in some cases (it was
          following symlinks)

2.4.9 -> 2.4.10:
        - obsolete entries could cause segv's during upgrades
        - sources now installed with uid/gid of process rather then
          the ids used when the src rpm was created
        - don't give an error if missingok files don't exist during remove
        - touched ftp code to make it coexist w/ Red Hat install better
        - use rand/srand rather then random/srandom
        - don't build misc directory unless it's necessary
        - empty package files should be treated the same as files
          with bad magic, not as read errors
        - fix bug where Prefix directory is included in file list
        - sinix readdir() work-around

2.4.8 -> 2.4.9:
        - fix for verification on systems where a single group id
          maps to mulitiple group names (Benedict Lofstedt)
        - added 'make tar' rule for building a distribution tarball
          (Horacio Rodriguez Montero)
        - fixed serial number handling in dependencies and install
          code
        - make mips compatible with noarch
        - fixed bug w/ printing string arrays in conditionals
        - handle modern patch programs (> 2.1)
        - handle packages w/ duplicate dependency names
        - --noscripts didn't get handled properly for removed packages
        - fixed handling of packages where %prereq creates users/groups

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
        - convertdb needed to read rpmrc
        - fixed ugly bug in package ordering
        - archivesize tag was incorrect for packages with hard links
        - moved popt into a separate library
        - directory created with %doc is now name-version (dropped
          the release)
        - added buildarch/buildos macros
        - added %ghost file option
        - updated linux.req to only find requirements for exectuable files

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:pass@machine.org/ 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