On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 12:34 AM, Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 9:33 AM, Panu Matilainen
> <pmati...@laiskiainen.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hey folks,
>>
>> Time to get rpm 4.13.0 out of the door. But in order to do that, we'll need
>> to cut -rc2 first, there's just too much change to jump right into final.
>>
>> The idea is to get -rc2 out next week (ie by Oct 21st at latest). If all
>> goes well we'll just rename that to -final in a few weeks time, if all goes
>> to hell we'll just have another -rc. Which I really, really dont want to
>> happen. So what I've planned for -rc2 is this rather conservative
>> cherry-picks from git master on top of the 4.13.x branch:
>>
>> d20b7d2 Fix rpmrichOpStr to use the new syntax
>> 54f24ec Fix reading a memory right after the end of an allocated area.
>> 7a84b45 Add support for various types of dependencies to rpmdeps tool
>> 73ea59e fix %autopatch when patch do not exist
>> 0d214a1 Permit scriptlet exec context setting to fail in non-enforcing modes
>> f5bab7c Warn if epoch is not unsigned integer (rhbz:1251453)
>> 5e94633 Make terminating build if version format is wrong configurable
>> 90d8cc1 Ignore SIGPIPE signals during execucton of scriptlets (rhbz:1264198)
>> 2dd0693 Fix SIGSEGV in case of old unsupported gpg keys (rhbz:1277464)
>> 9c36ca4 Fix crash when parsing corrupted RPM file (rhbz:1273360)
>> 1af568a Fix next_brace_sub() to return NULL if braces don't match.
>> 61838b0 Remove size limit when expanding macros
>> a0f2d94 Add possibility to disable file triggers.
>> 5e4c16f Remove option --priority for file triggers, leave option -P
>> aee8446 Rename expandMacrosU to rpmExpandMacros
>> ddf9ec7 rpmExpandMacros() is modified to be able to return more return codes
>> 8e847d5 Sanity check that there is at least one tag in header region
>> 9aff39d Fix not chrooting transaction file triggers
>> 8efe51e Add support for %missingok as a standalone file attribute
>> 33158b3 Fix recursive calling of rpmdeps tool (rhbz:1297557)
>> 231a721 Fix %autosetup to not cause errors during run of rpmspec tool
>> 6e23e20 Fix memory leak in file triggers
>> 448db68 Add RPMCALLBACK_ELEM_PROGRESS callback type
>> 83219d0 Also block idle and sleep in the systemd-inhibit plugin
>> cd02e06 Add support for MIPS release 6 - Add mips32 mips64 mipsel and mipseb
>> macros
>> 2166133 Use pkg->dpaths during dependency generation instead of buildRoot +
>> filename
>> d53499d Use %_build_cpu instead of noarch when evaluating ExcludeArch and
>> ExclusiveArch
>> cc61141 Fix memory leaks in rpmGetSubkeys() and pgpPrtParamsSubkeys()
>> 19fe0d9 Add posix.redirect2null
>> 877d5b1 Fix non-working combination of %lang and %doc directive
>> (rhbz:1254483)
>> 50905f4 Use fuzz settings for %autopatch/%autosetup
>> dddc6e7 Misleading indentation fixes (GCC6)
>> 4695533 Fix index generation of rich dependencies with an else part
>> 9c1e995 Make creating index records consistent for rich and rich-weak deps
>> e297b51 Add enahance dependency forgotten in the recent commit [1]
>> 66a6082 Add %{_default_patch_flags} to %__patch which is used in %autosetup
>> 69ed95e Enable --no-backup-if-mismatch by default in %patch macro
>> (rhbz:884755)
>> b722cf8 Fix reading rpmtd behind its size in formatValue() (rhbz:1316896)
>> cddf43a Fix sigsegv in stringFormat() (rhbz:1316903)
>> b4f0e7e Make sure getNEVRA always sets td.data
>> 6ac793b Filter unversioned deps if corresponding versioned deps exist
>> (rhbz:678605)
>> 5d5dd56 Use armv7hl isa for all armhfp (armv7h*l) arches (#1326871)
>> 258e306 Fix signing with non-ASCII uid keys (rhbz:1243963)
>> 0964912 Fix off-by-one error
>> 1aeddbc fix segfault when calling with args==NULL
>> 4ec7c39 Add sepdebugcrcfix to fixup old style gnu_debuglink CRC checksum.
>> 6b3b435 Add dwz debuginfo compression support.
>> b33a41d Add find-debuginfo.sh -m minisymtab support.
>> cf56793 rpmrc: Convert uname.machine == "riscv" to
>> "riscv32"/"riscv64"/"riscv128".
>> d9d47e0 RISCV 64-bit (riscv64) support.
>> f255c6b Fix overflow in cpio filename by limiting the allowed length to 4kB
>> e41550e Fix misleading-indentation in rpmplugins.c
>> 7e26e2b Create files with with 000 permissions to avoid leaking yet
>> unchecked data
>> a6e662f rpm2archive: return 0 on success instead of stop iteration
>> bd76111 find-debuginfo.sh: Don't copy extra sections into .gnu_debugdata.
>> 6e7c6d1 Revised fix for CVE-2013-6435
>>
>> If that seems somewhat strange selection, that's because ... well, I agree
>> it is. To minimize the risk of breaking anything, this is almost exactly
>> what has been included in Fedora and Mageia rpm during the past year. Which
>> means its reasonably tried and true code, which is exactly what we want to
>> get the thing out of the door, fast.
>>
>> I know there's a huge pile of other important fixes and enhancements in git
>> master waiting for an outlet. The idea is to get 4.13.0 out as soon as we
>> can reasonably can, just to break the current logjam. And then immediately
>> start looking forward to both new major release and backporting more goodies
>> to 4.13.x in the meanwhile. Think on the order of three months max to
>> 4.13.1.
>>
>> Anyway, the list above is not set in stone, otherwise there'd be little
>> point in posting it here. If you think something absolutely critical is
>> missing from that list, or that something should not be there, now is the
>> time to speak up.
>>
>
> In general, I'm happy with this list. However, I have a couple of requests:
>
> I work as a maintainer for rpm for Unity Linux (an rpm based distro
> using musl libc), I'd like to see the following commits added to
> 4.13-rc2 to support it properly (oldest first):
> 4f7c802 Set up portable definitions to support μClibc and MUSL
> ff3e57c Fix fstat64 conditional and definition typo
>
> These have been used in Unity Linux's rpm for almost a year as a
> squashed patch:
> https://gitlab.com/unity-linux-pkgs-core/rpm/blob/master/rpm-4.14.x-portable-definitions.patch
>
> I'd also like to see the following commits added in general, because
> it fixes issues with building rpm that I've discovered over time
> (oldest first):
> aa4c0d4 digest_beecrypt: Use correct header locations
> c67aece Properly support BeeCrypt option in build system
> 3ad7495 Fix pkgconfig reference to Lua in Libs.private
>
> I don't think the above commits would be too difficult to include into
> 4.13.0-rc2.
I think we should also include:
a60f36a prevent exceeding 32 bit memory limitations with multithreaded
xz compression
>
>
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