RPM 4.10.2 Release Notes

1. Download information
2. Summary of changes from RPM 4.10.1
   1. Security
   2. General bugfixes and enhancements
   3. Internal improvements and cleanups
   4. Build process

Download information

• rpm-4.10.2.tar.bz2 source
• SHA1SUM: 2455aa402823b34cdc3ee04e85accdffb70c5cb3

Summary of changes from RPM 4.10.1

Security

• Fix missing error code on unparseable signature in packages, regression introduced in rpm 4.10.0. This could result in packages with malformed signature falling through signature checking.

General bugfixes and enhancements

• Fix missing error code on --import on bogus key file (RhBug:869667)
• Fix installation of packages containing skipped hardlinks (RhBug:864622)
• Fix --setperms regression introduced in rpm 4.10.0 (RhBug:881835)
• Fix locale dependent behavior in rpm2cpio.sh (RhBug:878363)
• Add --undefine cli switch for undefining macros (related to RhBug:876308)
• Documentation updates (RhBug:665536, RhBug:742362, ...)

Internal improvements and cleanups

• Fix NSS-usage clash by using private context when possible (RhBug:871485)
• Fix partial reads and errors in package IO (RhBug:802839, RhBug:580974)
• Fix handling of allocation failure in DSA signature initialization

Build process

• Fix noarch __isa_* macro filter in installplatform (RhBug:865436)
• Fix warnings when building with gcc >= 4.7
• Fix warnings when building against NSS >= 3.14