RPM 4.7.2 Release Notes

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Fix extranuous dependency type characters in –filerequires/provides output (RhBug:523282)
Fix exit code on verification failure (SuseBug:527191)
Fix remote package retrieval in rpm2cpio (RhBug:523260)
Fix –tid and –querybynumber query selectors (regression originating from 4.6.0)
Fix ftp/http proxy options (RhBug:529214) (regression originating from 4.6.0)
Skip %posttrans scripts of failed transaction elements
Disk space problems are only reported for affected packages (RhBug:517418)
Error out early when trying to install to readonly filesystem (ticket #99, RhBug:464750)
Database files and indexes are opened with relative paths, avoiding issues with chroot (RhBug:507309 & others)
Remove DB4 environment on close when chrooted (RhBug:513699, RhBug:507309…)
Improve file list query (-ql) speed in normal case
Minor memory leaks fixed
Convert French man page to Unix line-endings (ticket #104)

Fix segfault when on %include of empty files
Fix %sources and %patches containing the same items multiple times (ticket #82)
Fix duplicate dependency checking on build (ticket #103, RhBug:490378)
Allow absolute paths in file lists again (SuseBug:535594, RhBug:521760) (regression in 4.7.1)
Use 444 permissions for all .debug files (RhBug:522194)
Add XZ and LZMA recompress support to brp-compress (ticket #84)
OSGi dependency generator fixes (ticket #101)
Improved perl heredoc parsing (RhBug:524929)