Revision history for Perl extension RPM.
-0.01 Thu May 4 12:04:34 2000
- - original version; created by h2xs 1.19
+0.40 Fri May 10 01:09:13 PDT 2002
+ -alpha thirteen
-0.1 Mon May 22 00:59:54 PDT 2000
- - first alpha release
+ RPM 3.0 line is no longer going to be supported. It's been long
+ enough since the 4.0 line came out, I feel. All #ifdef'd code relating
+ to 3.0 (and 4.0 line before about 4.0.2) has been removed. The code
+ once again will compile standing on its own within the rpm CVS
+ repository.
- Classes for RPM::Header and RPM::Database are (more or less) done.
- RPM::Constants appears to have everything that is expected to be
- needed (i.e., any changes should result in shortening the list of
- exported symbols, rather than lengthening it). A basic top-level
- RPM namespace is present, but doesn't yet do anything useful. Some
- basic test scripts are in place, but more are (always) needed.
+ Applied a patch to RPM/Database.xs from Gerald Teschl <gt@esi.ac.at>
+ so that when a header for a package that exists multiple times in
+ the db (such as kernel) is requested, the newest of the lot is
+ returned.
-0.2 Mon May 29 17:59:20 PDT 2000
- - second alpha
+ In a related area, the list of potential control-case packages in
+ t/02_headers.t started with kernel, but if there were two such
+ packages installed when the tests ran, several of them would fail.
+ Now, rpm is the first choice.
- Class for RPM::Error added. The code is in the RPM.xs file, but
- the docs and accessors are done in RPM/Error.pm.
+ Applied a modified version of a patch from Anton Berezin
+ <tobez@FreeBSD.org> to RPM/Header.xs that catches cases where at
+ the start of key-iteration, the first run of headerNextIterator()
+ might yield a null (unknown) header key (in rpmhdr_FIRSTKEY).
- All sub-classes moved to RPM/.
+ Applied a patch to RPM/Database.pm to allow options to be passed to
+ the new() method. Also added documentation for the new() method (!).
+ Patch was from viktor@vs.nexus.hu.
- More documentation added, especially to RPM::Constants.
+ Applied a patch from Radu Greab <radu@netsoft.ro> that eliminated
+ a couple of compiler warnings and freed a pointer at destructor-time
+ that was previously overlooked (RPM/Header.xs and RPM/Error.xs).
- RPM::Constants had about a dozen or so trimmed out.
+ Removed all the calls to safemalloc and safefree, replaced them with
+ the API-correct New (or Newz) and Safefree.
- Found error in Database.xs where the FIRSTKEY/NEXTKEY pair would
- have returned string-ified references instead of package names,
- because of not taking the first array element. I really plan to
- change the RPM::Header::FETCH interface.
+0.32 Tue May 15 00:54:20 PDT 2001
+ - alpha twelve
- Added two utility functions under the RPM::* space for getting O/S
- and architecture names.
+ Found and fixed a bug in RPM/Database.xs that was causing more of
+ the "Attempt to free unreferenced scalar" messages. In the process,
+ noticed that caching of values during iteration wasn't actually
+ working as designed. The resulting fix should improve database look-ups
+ fairly noticably.
- Put in the start of thread-safing the module. But this part of the
- API is still pretty black in the Lockheed Skunkworks sense of the
- word, so it isn't at all complete.
+ Two more places found (one in RPM/Header.xs, one in RPM/Database.xs)
+ that were contributing to memory leakage.
-0.25 Mon Jun 5 00:54:59 PDT 2000
- - third alpha
+ A lot of changes to RPM/Constants.xs in terms of reducing the number
+ and length of string-compares made in constant look-ups. This is most
+ noticable in the RPM* set of constants, where the breakdown is the
+ most granular. On the main dev box (a P-1/233MHz) this sped up the
+ full test suite by over 25%.
- Fixes to the thread-safing code. When built against a 5.6.0 configured
- for threading, several problems were found. All (current) tests now
- pass on that configuration.
+0.31 Fri Apr 27 01:45:37 PDT 2001
+ - alpha eleven
- Added a file, IMPORTANT.perl, to the distribution that explains the
- nature of a condition that can prevent the extension from working on
- any version of Perl not installed from an rpm.
+ Re-worked most of RPM/Constants.xs to accomodate the change from
+ #define to enum values in 4.0.2. This will be released as an
+ interim version, since Red Hat is shipping 7.1 with this version of
+ rpm.
- Still more trimming of tokens out of Constants.pm that are not of use
- by the interface being provided. Filled in a few more in terms of
- documentation.
+0.30 Wed Mar 7 22:13:40 PST 2001
+ - tenth alpha
- Found a case in RPM::Header that would cause core-dumps: Any tags found
- by the iterator that were not exported for the API by the rpm lib
- could cause a null pointer to be passed through to an entry point that
- was several lines past where I had normally checked for the null. This
- meant that source RPMs would almost certainly break, since the
- offending tags only showed up when I started testing against SRPMS.
- Now, the iterators skip over these internal tags. The normal FETCH
- method already tested for this, but the interators were sneaking past
- those tests.
+ Much of the leakage of RPM::Header objects is now gone, due mostly to
+ changing the prototype of rpmdb_FETCH to returning a SV* instead of
+ a RPM::Header reference. The various class DESTROY methods seem to be
+ getting called in the correct order, now.
- Added a method to the RPM::Header class, is_source(), that returns a
- true value (1) if the header is associated with a source RPM.
+ Caught a case in the RPM::Header class where attempting to reference
+ an element of a non-existent tag would trigger auto-vivification on
+ that key, which in turn was leading to some bad calls being made to
+ the rpmlib routines.
-0.26 Fri Jul 14 01:03:02 PDT 2000
- - fourth alpha
+ Re-did the av-assignment in rpmhdr_create. This should save on SV*
+ creation, though it might not have been a leak. Still, this method
+ is more efficient overall.
- Added NVR() method to RPM::Header for obvious reasons of convenience.
- Also added cmpver method, which calls into the rpmCompareVersion() API
- hook to compare two headers' version/release data with an internal
- algorithm that handles numerical and alpha content in the tags.
+ Newer versions of rpm 4.0 tickled a bug in which a database offset
+ value might get sent in without being initialized first. This was
+ caught and fixed. Also related to the 3.0/4.0 rift, some variables
+ only used for 3.0.X are now declared within #ifdef's to defeat 'unused'
+ warnings.
- Took out all remaining warn()'s and croak()'s, replacing them with
- rpm_error() calls. Most notable in the error-return cases of
- RPM::Database::init and ::rebuild.
+ The current state of the module will be released to allow for use by
+ other parties, without the wait for any ongoing development milestones
+ on my part.
- More thread-safing, in particular the heretofore-ignored RPM::Constants
- XS module.
+0.292 Mon Nov 13 22:40:15 PST 2000
+ - ninth alpha
- Added a sample script in utils, called rpmprune. It has a --help
- summary and a man page, see those for details.
+ Some unused variables were found in several places.
+
+ Moved away from the self-tie mechanism and instead handle the data
+ opacity in a completely different fashion. This simplified some code,
+ muddled some, but ultimately led to the removal of several #define
+ macros, more unused variable removal, and (hopefully) more stable
+ code.
+
+ Addressed a problem in both RPM::Database and RPM::Header XS code
+ wherein destructors were not getting called when objects were
+ implicitly or explicitly freed.
+
+ Added more tests to the test suite.
+
+ Changed the names of some of the find_* routines in RPM::Database.
+ See the manual page. The old names were confusing me, despite my
+ direct familiarity with the code!
+
+ The find_* functions in RPM::Database may now take a RPM::Header
+ object as their argument, and will use the package's name for the
+ searches.
+
+ It's still leaking RPM::Header objects in the RPM::Database routines.
+ The alternative is a nasty mix of "attempt to free unreferenced
+ scalar" errors and core dumps.
+
+0.291 Fri Oct 13 01:45:18 PDT 2000
+ - eighth alpha
+
+ The flags that are created from the rpm version are now passed for
+ 3.0.X, as well.
+
+ A thread-safing bug was found and fixed in Header.xs. An unused
+ variable was removed.
+
+ Makefile.PL has some large-scale work, including the addition of a
+ template spec file following the __DATA__ token, code to expand this
+ file using the values that MakeMaker has derived for the package,
+ generation of make rules to construct *.rpm and *.srpm files, and
+ generation of "rpmrc" and "rpmmacro" files to use in invoking rpm
+ (to force all operation into the local dir area).
+
+0.29 Wed Oct 4 22:29:56 PDT 2000
+ - seventh alpha
+
+ The only change of note in this release is compatibility with version
+ 4.0 of RPM. Additionally, some flags to the C compiler to work with
+ the gcc that is distributed with Red Hat Linux 7. This version has
+ been tested on both 6.2 and 7 systems.
+
+0.28 Fri Aug 18 01:29:35 PDT 2000
+ - sixth alpha
+
+ Considerable additions made to the documentation in RPM::Constants, as
+ well as a few corrections. The prototype of the constant() function
+ was changed, as well.
+
+ Several bugs were addressed in RPM::Header, most notably: Error returns
+ now correctly return a value of "undef"; A blocking issue surrounding
+ multiple RPM::Header objects from ftp:// sources is fixed; the mode
+ with which files are opened was also changed to allow for reading off
+ of STDIN. The error-return issue was also applied to RPM::Database.
+
+ RPM::Header now has a source_name() accessor method that returns the
+ file name (or URI) that the header was read from. This is null if the
+ header came from the database.
0.27 Tue Aug 8 00:02:22 PDT 2000
- fifth alpha
More tags/values documented in RPM::Constants.
-0.28 Fri Aug 18 01:29:35 PDT 2000
- - sixth alpha
-
- Considerable additions made to the documentation in RPM::Constants, as
- well as a few corrections. The prototype of the constant() function
- was changed, as well.
-
- Several bugs were addressed in RPM::Header, most notably: Error returns
- now correctly return a value of "undef"; A blocking issue surrounding
- multiple RPM::Header objects from ftp:// sources is fixed; the mode
- with which files are opened was also changed to allow for reading off
- of STDIN. The error-return issue was also applied to RPM::Database.
-
- RPM::Header now has a source_name() accessor method that returns the
- file name (or URI) that the header was read from. This is null if the
- header came from the database.
-
-0.29 Wed Oct 4 22:29:56 PDT 2000
- - seventh alpha
-
- The only change of note in this release is compatibility with version
- 4.0 of RPM. Additionally, some flags to the C compiler to work with
- the gcc that is distributed with Red Hat Linux 7. This version has
- been tested on both 6.2 and 7 systems.
-
-0.291 Fri Oct 13 01:45:18 PDT 2000
- - eighth alpha
-
- The flags that are created from the rpm version are now passed for
- 3.0.X, as well.
-
- A thread-safing bug was found and fixed in Header.xs. An unused
- variable was removed.
+0.26 Fri Jul 14 01:03:02 PDT 2000
+ - fourth alpha
- Makefile.PL has some large-scale work, including the addition of a
- template spec file following the __DATA__ token, code to expand this
- file using the values that MakeMaker has derived for the package,
- generation of make rules to construct *.rpm and *.srpm files, and
- generation of "rpmrc" and "rpmmacro" files to use in invoking rpm
- (to force all operation into the local dir area).
+ Added NVR() method to RPM::Header for obvious reasons of convenience.
+ Also added cmpver method, which calls into the rpmCompareVersion() API
+ hook to compare two headers' version/release data with an internal
+ algorithm that handles numerical and alpha content in the tags.
-0.292 Mon Nov 13 22:40:15 PST 2000
- - ninth alpha
+ Took out all remaining warn()'s and croak()'s, replacing them with
+ rpm_error() calls. Most notable in the error-return cases of
+ RPM::Database::init and ::rebuild.
- Some unused variables were found in several places.
+ More thread-safing, in particular the heretofore-ignored RPM::Constants
+ XS module.
- Moved away from the self-tie mechanism and instead handle the data
- opacity in a completely different fashion. This simplified some code,
- muddled some, but ultimately led to the removal of several #define
- macros, more unused variable removal, and (hopefully) more stable
- code.
+ Added a sample script in utils, called rpmprune. It has a --help
+ summary and a man page, see those for details.
- Addressed a problem in both RPM::Database and RPM::Header XS code
- wherein destructors were not getting called when objects were
- implicitly or explicitly freed.
+0.25 Mon Jun 5 00:54:59 PDT 2000
+ - third alpha
- Added more tests to the test suite.
+ Fixes to the thread-safing code. When built against a 5.6.0 configured
+ for threading, several problems were found. All (current) tests now
+ pass on that configuration.
- Changed the names of some of the find_* routines in RPM::Database.
- See the manual page. The old names were confusing me, despite my
- direct familiarity with the code!
+ Added a file, IMPORTANT.perl, to the distribution that explains the
+ nature of a condition that can prevent the extension from working on
+ any version of Perl not installed from an rpm.
- The find_* functions in RPM::Database may now take a RPM::Header
- object as their argument, and will use the package's name for the
- searches.
+ Still more trimming of tokens out of Constants.pm that are not of use
+ by the interface being provided. Filled in a few more in terms of
+ documentation.
- It's still leaking RPM::Header objects in the RPM::Database routines.
- The alternative is a nasty mix of "attempt to free unreferenced
- scalar" errors and core dumps.
+ Found a case in RPM::Header that would cause core-dumps: Any tags found
+ by the iterator that were not exported for the API by the rpm lib
+ could cause a null pointer to be passed through to an entry point that
+ was several lines past where I had normally checked for the null. This
+ meant that source RPMs would almost certainly break, since the
+ offending tags only showed up when I started testing against SRPMS.
+ Now, the iterators skip over these internal tags. The normal FETCH
+ method already tested for this, but the interators were sneaking past
+ those tests.
-0.30 Wed Mar 7 22:13:40 PST 2001
- - tenth alpha
+ Added a method to the RPM::Header class, is_source(), that returns a
+ true value (1) if the header is associated with a source RPM.
- Much of the leakage of RPM::Header objects is now gone, due mostly to
- changing the prototype of rpmdb_FETCH to returning a SV* instead of
- a RPM::Header reference. The various class DESTROY methods seem to be
- getting called in the correct order, now.
+0.2 Mon May 29 17:59:20 PDT 2000
+ - second alpha
- Caught a case in the RPM::Header class where attempting to reference
- an element of a non-existent tag would trigger auto-vivification on
- that key, which in turn was leading to some bad calls being made to
- the rpmlib routines.
+ Class for RPM::Error added. The code is in the RPM.xs file, but
+ the docs and accessors are done in RPM/Error.pm.
- Re-did the av-assignment in rpmhdr_create. This should save on SV*
- creation, though it might not have been a leak. Still, this method
- is more efficient overall.
+ All sub-classes moved to RPM/.
- Newer versions of rpm 4.0 tickled a bug in which a database offset
- value might get sent in without being initialized first. This was
- caught and fixed. Also related to the 3.0/4.0 rift, some variables
- only used for 3.0.X are now declared within #ifdef's to defeat 'unused'
- warnings.
+ More documentation added, especially to RPM::Constants.
- The current state of the module will be released to allow for use by
- other parties, without the wait for any ongoing development milestones
- on my part.
+ RPM::Constants had about a dozen or so trimmed out.
-0.31 Fri Apr 27 01:45:37 PDT 2001
- - alpha eleven
+ Found error in Database.xs where the FIRSTKEY/NEXTKEY pair would
+ have returned string-ified references instead of package names,
+ because of not taking the first array element. I really plan to
+ change the RPM::Header::FETCH interface.
- Re-worked most of RPM/Constants.xs to accomodate the change from
- #define to enum values in 4.0.2. This will be released as an
- interim version, since Red Hat is shipping 7.1 with this version of
- rpm.
+ Added two utility functions under the RPM::* space for getting O/S
+ and architecture names.
-0.32 Tue May 15 00:54:20 PDT 2001
- - alpha twelve
+ Put in the start of thread-safing the module. But this part of the
+ API is still pretty black in the Lockheed Skunkworks sense of the
+ word, so it isn't at all complete.
- Found and fixed a bug in RPM/Database.xs that was causing more of
- the "Attempt to free unreferenced scalar" messages. In the process,
- noticed that caching of values during iteration wasn't actually
- working as designed. The resulting fix should improve database look-ups
- fairly noticably.
+0.1 Mon May 22 00:59:54 PDT 2000
+ - first alpha release
- Two more places found (one in RPM/Header.xs, one in RPM/Database.xs)
- that were contributing to memory leakage.
+ Classes for RPM::Header and RPM::Database are (more or less) done.
+ RPM::Constants appears to have everything that is expected to be
+ needed (i.e., any changes should result in shortening the list of
+ exported symbols, rather than lengthening it). A basic top-level
+ RPM namespace is present, but doesn't yet do anything useful. Some
+ basic test scripts are in place, but more are (always) needed.
- A lot of changes to RPM/Constants.xs in terms of reducing the number
- and length of string-compares made in constant look-ups. This is most
- noticable in the RPM* set of constants, where the breakdown is the
- most granular. On the main dev box (a P-1/233MHz) this sped up the
- full test suite by over 25%.
+0.01 Thu May 4 12:04:34 2000
+ - original version; created by h2xs 1.19
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