[platform/upstream/rpm.git] / CHANGES

2.4.1 -> 2.4.2:
        - completely rewrote queryformat code
        - added fsnames, fssizes virtual query tags
        - added rpmdbFindByHeader() and rpmdbFindByTag() public functions

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