path: root/CHANGES

3.0.5 -> 4.0
	- use DIRNAMES/BASENAMES/DIRINDICES not FILENAMES in packages and db.
	- API: change dbi to pass by reference, not value.
	- cram all of db1, db_185, and db2 interfaces into rpmlib.
	- convert db1 -> db2 on-disk format using --rebuilddb.
	- add db3 to the pile, isolate all with incremental link and vectors.
	- prefer db3 as default.
	- permit db3 configuration using macros.
	- create dbi from template rather than passed args.
	- use hashed access for package headers.
	- db3: save join keys in endian neutral binary format.
	- treat legacy falloc.c as "special" db[01] index for package headers.
	- API: pass *SearchIndex() length of key (0 will use strlen(key)).
	- API: remove rpmdb{First,Next}RecNum routines.
	- add explcit "Provides: name = [epoch:]version-release" to headers.
	- fix: cpio.c: pre-, not post-, decrement the link count.
		(from Fabrice Bellet <Fabrice.Bellet@creatis.insa-lyon.fr>)
	- make db indices as lightweight as possible, with per-dbi config.
	- db1.c will never be needed, eliminate.
	- API: merge rebuilddb.c into rpmdb.c.
	- API: replace rpmdbUpdateRecord with rpmdbSetIteratorModified.
	- API: replace rpmdbFindByLabel with RPMDBI_LABEL iteration.
	- API: replace rpmdbGetRecord with iterators.
	- API: replace findMatches with iterators.
	- Filter DB_INCOMPLETE on db->sync, it's usually harmless.
	- Add per-transaction cache of resolved dependencies (aka Depends).
	- Do lazy dbi{Open,Close} throughout.
	- Attempt fine grained dbi cursors throughout.
	- fix: free iterator *after* loop, not during.
	- fix: Depends needed keylen in dbiPut, rpmdbFreeIterator after use.
	- Rename db0.c to db1.c, resurrect db2.c (from db3.c).
	- simplify --last popt alias, date like -qi (bjerrick@easystreet.com).
	- fix: alloca'd memory used outside of scope (alpha segfault).
	- fix: define/eval options assumed sizeof(int) == sizeof(void *).
	- fix: sparc64 per-platform directory shouldn't be sparc64linux.
	- fix: (segfault) verify needs rpmdb while query does not.
	- add calculated nlink field to -qlv output (like ls -al).
	- detects and builds properly against the new fopencookie API in
          glibc 2.2.
	- change popt exec alias in oreder to exec rpm children.
	- split rpm into 5 pieces along major mode fault lines with popt glue.
	- turn on new, more complete version of %%configure.
	- add %%makeinstall analogue of new %%configure for autoconf packages.
	- mark packaging with version 4 to reflect filename/provide changes.
	- change next version from 3.1 to 4.0 to reflect package format change.
	- change %configure, add %makeinstall macros to handle FHS changes.
	- add optflags for i486 and i586.
	- fix: segfault with legacy packages missing RPMTAG_FILEINODES.
	- require db3 in default configuration.
	- create rpmio directory for librpmio.
	- make librpmio standalone.
	- fix: avoid clobbering db cursor in removeBinaryPackage.
	- expose cursors in dbi interfaces, remove internal cursors.
	- remove incremental link.
	- portability: sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1.
	- fix: don't count removed files if removed packages is empty set.
	- fix: permit '\0' as special case key (e.g. "/" in Basenames).
	- require --rebuilddb to convert db1 -> db3, better messages.
	- fix: open all db indices before performing chroot.
	- fix: typo in brp-compress caused i18n man pages not to compress.
	- API: uncouple fadio from rest of rpmio.
	- API: externalize legacy fdOpen interface for rpmfind et al.
	- put version on rpmpopt filename to avoid legacy filename collision.
	- change optflags for i386.
	- multilib patch, take 1.
	- add pre-transaction syscall's to handle /etc/init.d change.
	- don't bother saving '/' as fingerprint subdir.
	- prefix payload paths with "./", otherwise "/" can't be represented.
	- fix: compressFilelist broke when fed '/'.
	- fix: typo in --last popt alias (#12690).
	- fix: clean file paths before performing -qf (#12493).
	- remove build mode help from rpm.c, use rpmb instead.
	- fix: set multilibno on sparc per-platform config.
	- fix: legacy requires './' payload prefix to be omitted for rpm itself.
	- fix: remove verbose database +++/--- messages to conform to doco.
	- add S_ISLNK pre-transaction syscall test.
	- fix: initialize pretransaction argv (segfault).
	- fix: check rpmlib features w/o database (and check earlier as well).
	- rip out pre-transaction syscalls, more design is needed.
	- remove (dead) dependency checks on implicitly provided package names.
	- remove (dead) rpmdb API code in python bindings.
	- fix: make set of replaced file headers unique.
	- fix: don't attempt dbiOpen with anything but requested dbN.
	- create rpmbuild/rpmquery/rpmverify/rpmsign symlinks.
	- fix: look for any/all dbapi when rebuilding.
	- link rpm2cpio dynamically since cpio is linked dynamically.
	- fix: uniqify dependency problems when printing (#14034).
	- fix: segfault on erase if filestates is missing in header (#14679).
	- fix: popt POST callbacks typo.
	- fix: -Va broken, make db cursors per-iterator, not per-dbi.
	- fix: segfault when globbing on "" (#15593).

3.0.4 -> 3.0.5
	- configure.in fiddles for BSD systems (Patrick Schoo).
	- solaris2.6: avoid bsearch with empty dir list (Ric Klaren - klaren@cs.utwente.nl)
	- include RPM-GPG-KEY in file manifest.
	- Add ia64 and sparc64 changes.
	- rpm.spec: add per-platform sub-directories.
	- FreeBSD fixes (bero@redhat.com).
	- handle version 4 packaging as input.
	- builds against bzip2 1.0
	- fix: resurrect symlink unique'ifying property of finger prints.
	- fix: broken glob test with empty build directory (Geoff Keating).
        - fix: create per-platform directories correctly.
        - update brp-* scripts from rpm-4.0, enable in per-platform config.
        - alpha: add -mieee to default optflags.
	- add RPMTAG_OPTFLAGS, configured optflags when package was built.
	- add RPMTAG_DISTURL for rpmfind-like tools (content unknown yet).
	- teach brp-compress about /usr/info and /usr/share/info as well.
	- update macros.in from rpm-4.0 (w/o dbi configuration).
	- fix: don't expand macros in false branch of %if (kasal@suse.cz).
	- fix: macro expansion problem and clean up (#11484) (kasal@suse.cz).
	- uname on i370 has s390 as arch (#11456).
	- python: initdb binding (Dan Burcaw <dburcaw@terraplex.com>).
	- internalize --freshen (Gordon Messmer <yinyang@eburg.com>).
	- support for separate source/binary compression policy.
	- support for bzip payloads.
	- fix: payload compression tag not nul terminated.
	- identify package when install scriptlet fails (#12448).
	- remove (unused) RPMTAG_CAPABILITY.
	- remove (legacy) use of RPMTAG_{OBSOLETES,PROVIDES} internally.
	- remove (legacy) support for version 1 packaging.
	- remove (legacy) support for converting gdbm databases.
	- eliminate unused headerGz{Read,Write}.
	- support for rpmlib(...) internal feature dependencies.
	- display rpmlib provides when invoked with --showrc.
	- fix: compare versions if doing --freshen.
	- disable rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) by defining _noVersionedDependencies.

3.0.3 -> 3.0.4
	- use compressed filenames on install side.
	- start unifying FD types, CFD_t now gone.
	- check for memory leaks (almost all leaks are plugged).
	- fix: resurrect multiple target platform builds.
	- freshen.sh: detect when all packages are up to date (Ian Macdonald).
	- fix: typo in error message (#6858).
	- add/update dependency scripts (Ken Estes).
	- use directory tokens internally to reduce memory usage.
	- permit --whatprovides to lookup file dependencies.
	- fail to package if absolute symlink points within build root.
	- initial version of check-prereqs.
	- expose enough of legacy fdio interface to compile rpmfind/rpm2html.
	- fix: Fopen should use 0666 as default (umask will be applied later).
	- fix: default for rd_timeoutsecs is 1 sec (avoid ufdio assertion).
	- fix: new FILENAMES tags require package index, not pointer in lookups.
	- rename new FILENAMES tags to BASENAMES/DIRNAMES/DIRINDEXES.
	- fix: don't look at password when searching urlCache.
	- add contentLength sanity check on rpmdb headerWrite.
	- fix: fprint abort on stat("/", ...) in empty chroots.
	- perform glob on remote ftp query args.
	- fix: ftpAbort must close the data channel to read abort status.
	- perform glob on remote ftp install args.
	- fix: reload macros from cmd line when re-reading config files.
	- fix: compressFileList was over-generating dirNames.
	- fix: alAddPackage sorted dirNames too soon, destroying dirMapping.
	- expose enough of legacy fdio interface to compile gnorpm.
	- fix: missing strdup when overriding buildroot from command line
	  argument (#1026,#5006).
	- diddle some names to keep my C++ brethern happy (i.e. kpackage port).
	- fix: add ufdSeek.
	- build popt (with libpopt.so*) as a sub-package of rpm.
	- split python bindings into a separate sub-package of rpm.
	- add ja translation and man pages (Kanda Mitsuru kanda@nn.iij4u.or.jp).
	- fix: fp.subDir was incorrectly set to NULL in sparse chroot's.
	- fix: manageFile needs to and with O_WRONLY(=1), not O_RDONLY(=0).
	- fix: resurrect failed glob error message during build.
	- add several BuildRoot FTW policies.
	- add manpage for gendiff (pbrown@redhat.com).
	- updated sv.po (goeran@uddeborg.pp.se) (#8349).
	- configurable PATH for install %pre/%post et al scriptlets.
	- use only %_install_langs, not LINGUAS/LANG when deciding to install.
	- configurable compression type/level for package payloads.
	- default value for %_install_langs is all.
	- fix: resurrect relative path's in fprint lookup queries.
	- extract spec files from bzip'ped tarballs too on tar builds.
	- add %_rebuilddbpath macro to permit rebuilding db in new location.
	- updated perl scripts (Ken Estes).
	- fix: on --rebuilddb, make sure new/old paths are not the same (#8752).
	- fix: on --erase, segfault caused by "" prefix.
	- explicitly expand file lists in writeRPM for rpmputtext.
	- {Free,Open}BSD find-{provides,requires} (suzukis@file.phys.tohoku.ac.jp).
	- new rpm-build package to isolate rpm dependencies on perl/bash2.
	- always remove duplicate identical package entries on --rebuilddb.
	- add scripts for autogenerating CPAN dependencies.
	- add sl.po from Primoz Peterlin <peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>.
	- updated sv.po from <goeran@uddeborg.pp.se>.
	- macro expansion (and absolute path) in %files -f arg (#9508,#9091).
	- permit cli setting of build root policies.
	- fix: filter excluded paths before adding install prefixes (#8709).
	- add i18n lookaside to PO catalogue(s) for i18n strings.
	- try for /etc/rpm/macros.specspo so that specspo autoconfigures rpm.
	- per-platform configuration factored into /usr/lib/rpm subdir.
	- sparc-sun-solaris2.6 portability check.
	- simpler hpux.prov script (Tim Mooney).
	- portability: skip bzip2 if not available.
	- portability: skip gzseek if not available (zlib-1.0.4).
	- portability: skip personality if not available (linux).
	- portability: always include arpa/inet.h (HP-UX).
	- portability: don't use id -u (Brandon Allbery).
	- portability: don't chown/chgrp -h w/o lchown.
	- portability: splats in rpm.spec to find /usr/{share,lib}/locale/* .
	- fix: better filter in linux.req to avoid ARM specific objdump output.
	- fix: use glibc 2.1 glob/fnmatch everywhere.
	- fix: noLibio = 0 on Red Hat 4.x and 5.x.
	- fix: typo in autodeps/linux.req.
	- configure noarch compatibility in rpmrc for ia64.

3.0.2 -> 3.0.3
	- add --eval to find result of macro expansion.
	- add configure scaffolding to support rpm-4.0 packages.
	- include shared libs in rpm-devel (no versioning yet).
	- add epoch (as [0-9]*:version-release) to install dependency parse.
	- move install/erase major modes into rpmlib.
	- move checksig/resign major modes into rpmlib.
	- add python bindings to rpm-devel (linux only).
	- make query (rpm -qvl) behave like (POSIX?) ls for older files (#4050).
	- fix: %if parsing skipped 3 chars too many.
	- permit multiline macro expansions with comments and %if.
	- add pl translation and man pages (PLD team - from Tomasz Kloczko).
	- fix: incomplete cleanup if --rebuilddb fails (#4115).
	- add versions to provides.
	- fix: sanity test on specfile fails when encountering i18n chars.
	- print all dependencies for each package at end of build.
	- the death of RPMSENSE_SERIAL, use [epoch:]version[-release] instead.
	- add _mandir/_infodir macro expansions to docdirs (Tomasz Kloczko).
	- add post install configurable dependency checking.
	- fix: segfault on --rebuild (#4185).
	- macro fixes (Benedict Lofstedt, #4220):
	   expand %# just like %{#} (and with same value as shell analogues).
	   macro defaults for *, 0, and # if no args specified.
	   getopt on non-linux requires optind to be saved/restored.
	- fix: don't remove file until last occurence in transaction (#4291).
	- resuscitate net shared paths (#4330).
	- fix: macro table cannot contain NULL pointers (#4263).
	- fix: last char in rpmrc w/o terminating newline lost (#4361).
	- prepare for handling \r in macro exapnsions.
	- fix: n>1 occurrences of %config(noreplace) should not FA_CREATE (#4355).
	- fix: use pgp5 rather than pgp-2.6.3 if both are in %_pgpbin (#4564).
	- match "de" when locale is specified as "de_DE.ISO-8859-1@Munich".
	- add versions to obsoletes.
	- add %_install_langs to configure languages to be installed.
	- add LC_ALL/LC_MESSAGES to query locale search.
	- fix: segfault with "--sign" w/o supplying files (#4651).
	- add headerWrite return code and check for errors.
	- update python bindings from anaconda.
	- add versions to prereq.
	- add syntax sensitive implict prereq on rpm-3.0.3.
	- fix: don't successfully match with strncasecmp("sparc", "sparc64", 5)
	- add sparcv9 architecture.
	- add --freshen to usage message (#4823).
	- suggested changes to docs from Ken Estes (#4451).
	- link libbz2.a statically to avoid rpm->bzip2 dependence for now.
	- Tru64: avoid find-requires variable size limit (Tim Mooney).
	- Solaris: use getpassphrase rather than getpass if available.
	- pgp and pgp5 have compatible RSA signature (#4780).
	- fix: avoid db problems with self-obsoleting packages on install.
	- glibc2: always enable dynamic mtrace if available.
	- fix: versioned provides devolved to existence test with conflicts.
	- fix: with unspecified epochs, skip dependency epoch compare.
	- python: shared module linked correctly.
	- do versioned provides/conflicts resolution correctly.
	- rpmpopt: display versioned provides/obsoletes.
	- revert to shared libbz2.so now that bzip2 is in base install.
	- fix: command line install had header memory leak.
	- check for NULL on all memory allocations.
	- free rpmrc mallocs on exit.
	- glibc2: permit run time leak detection.
	- fix: removed files fingerprint memory leak.
	- fix: resurrect allfiles flag from rpm-2.5.x.
	- fix: version compares compatible with epoch-less requires/conflicts.
	- fix: rpm-2.5.1 had file list w/o leading / fix.
	- portatbility fiddles (solaris).
	- create binary rpm directory (e.g. .../%{_target_cpu}) on the fly.
	- updated pl/rpm.8 (PLD team).
	- new find req/prov scripts for non-linux platforms (Tim Mooney).
	- fix: non-GNU globs burp on repeated '/' in patterns.
	- dumb cpp's want white space around lclint annotations (Tim Mooney).
	- aix: aix.req broken by cut-and-paste (Tim Mooney).

3.0.1 -> 3.0.2
	- eliminate armv4 entries from rpmrc (Andrew E. Mileski).
	- permit multiple "Provides: " lines in rpmrc (#2999).
	- add BuildConflicts: and BuildRequires: in spec file and src rpm.
	- fix: bigendian's with longlong file sizes (e.g. IRIX) dinna work.
	- move printDep* routines into rpmlib for gnorpm et al.
	- updated ru translation (Sergey Kubushin).
	- add vpkg-provides.sh (Tim Mooney).
	- don't clobber LDFLAGS in top-level Makefile (Tim Mooney).
	- fix: build root from cmd line did not set macro %buildroot (#1026).
	- fix: resurrect "rpm -Va --nofiles" (verify dependencies only) (#3111).
	- rpm-devel should require popt (#3125).
	- don't spin while waiting for delayed requires/provides input (#3289).
	- common parse for all dependency token syntax.
	- eliminate find-requirements on libNoVersion (Red Hat linux only).
	- add new-fangled requires on "libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1)" (sparc-linux only).
	- MiNT port (Guido Flohr <gufl0000@stud.uni-sb.de>).
	- fix: --rebuilddb with --root dinna remove directory (Michael Andres).
	- fix: false fingerprint stat cache hit -- "the tetex problem" (#2727).
	- fix: bsearch needs macro table sorted after undefine. (#3713).
	- fix: --checksig segfault with odd pgp output (e.g. w/o ~/.pgp) (#3720)
	- avoid numeric overflow in version comparison (Thayne Harbaugh<tharbaug@liberate.com>).
	- move url.c and ftp.c to rpmlib right next to query.
	- 12 more dead strtoks.
	- changelog stamp broken w/ big endian 64 bit time_t (Stephane Erania).
	- tru64: use /bin/sh not /usr/bin/ksh in find-requires.
	- 32Mb (~16x largest known) sanity check on header size.

3.0 -> 3.0.1
	- fix: %verifyscript resurrected (Shing-Gene Yung).
	- fix: % before non-alphabetic non-macro special now passed unscathed.
	- fix: noarch header gets initialized differently.
	- fix: $2 to triggerpostun scripts was wrong
	- fix: --querybypkg in man page should be --filesbypkg
	- fix: optflags not implicitly set to canonical arch value.
	- fix: prefer pgp2.6.3 over pgp5 if both are installed.
	- make sure that rpm-the-package auto-requires glibc.
	- add rpmputtext/rpmgettext to rpm package.
	- fix: non-apache servers need "GET ... HTTP/1.0" by the book.
	- fix: %doc wrongly inherits lang from last entry in %files.
	- resurrect toplevel tar target.
	- spec file removal separate from source removal (Shing-Gene Yung).
	- add rpm prefix to MD5 routines to avoid name conflict on solaris.
	- fix: resurrect -Vp, -Vf and -Vg functionality.
	- colesce query and verify modes.
	- better cpio error message if package contains missing hard links.
	- fix: shared file not skipped when removed.
	- fix: conversion script left off leading underscores.
	- another strtok bites the dust.
	- fix: prevent return code wrap during packagage checking/resigning.
	- permit multiple %lang(xx) markers on elements in %files.
	- permit %lang(xx,yy,zz) constructs --  2 more dead strtoks.
	- fix: --prefix should work properly during package installs.
	- add librpmbuild.a to the file list.

2.94 -> 2.95
	- fix: last update transaction set segfault bug in installer.
	- improved checks for statfs (Tim Mooney).
	- remove inconsistent use of __P((...)) throughout.
	- non-static inline functions caused IRIX cc pain.
	- CPIOERR_CHECK_ERRNO masking caused AIX cc warnings.
	- solaris 2.6+ needs statvfs.
	- check build prerequisites before building from specfile.
	- convert per-system configuration in /etc/rpmrc to macros.

2.93 -> 2.94
	- fix: segfault while parsing target string.
	- fix: os was not initialized with "--target i586".
	- fix: --prefix resurrected.
	- non-linux, non-gcc portability fixes (Tim Mooney).
	- default to static libs only (remove implied support for shared libs).

2.92 -> 2.93
	- eliminate old rpmrc configuration syntax.
	- pgp5 support (Carlo Wood <carlo@runaway.xs4all.nl>)
	- fix: segfault from double close on ftpGetFileDesc->ftpAbort path.
	- fix: don't add header if signature generation failed (Carlo Wood).
	- more DU 4.0D fiddles (Shing-Gene Yung).
	- fix: segfault from unknown uid/gid -- use builder's uid/gid instead.
	- autoReq/autoProv now per-package.
	- fix: avoid segfault using --prefix until ewt fixes.
	- add --define "%foo %bar" option.
	- dump macros to same fd as --showrc uses.
	- add %GNUconfigure for full-blown package regeneration.
	- fix: RPM_ARCH/RPM_OS had wrong values.
	- fix: create ppc directories correctly.
	- (re-)enable fixowner/fixgroup macros.
	- fix: specfile BuildRoot was masking rpmrc macro.
	- expand twiddles in macrofiles list.
	- add explicit macrofiles path to rpmrc.
	- add per-target macrofiles to search path.
	- take globalMacroContext out of macro api.
	- fix: flush all macros between builds.
	- add name/version/release macros during src.rpm install.
	- attempt mkdir sourcedir/specdir during src.rpm install.

2.91 -> 2.92
	- update with libtool-2.4f.
	- DU 4.0D fiddles (Shing-Gene Yung<shing@cz3.nus.edu.sg>)
	- change support@redhat.com to rpm-list@redhat.com.
	- fix: with --target=i686, pass macro %_arch=i386.
	- fix: rpm --target=arch ... resurrected.
	- fix: rpm -q --specfile --specedit now works even with BuildArch:.
	- fix: nested strtok's is a no-no.
	- added disk space checking

2.90 -> 2.91
	- fix: memory leaks in rpmRunTransactions plugged.
	- fix: build of packages w/o BuildRoot segfault.
	- permit substitution of I18N strings from PO meta-catalogues.
	- add callbacks for installer updates while doing URL xfers.
	- resurrect http queries/verifies.
	- create rpmbzio.c to avoid implicit dependence on libbz2 for installer.
	- spec files can provide /filename now
	- added rpmdbOpenForTraversal()
	- proxy http (Alex deVries).
	- add BuildPrereq: in spec file and src rpm.
	- added rpmtransSetScriptFd()
	- fixed config file problems during chroot upgrades
	- fixed %attr brokenness for directories
	- augment linux provides/requires for glibc 2.1 backward compatibility.
	- fixed --noscript, --notriggers, --excludedocs, and a bunch
	  of other install/remove flags
	- fixed noreplace handling
	- complain about old packages being installed

2.5.x -> 2.90
	- added --excludepath
	- identify missing keys by type (Toshio Kuratomi).
	- package install/removal much smarter about symlinks
	- redid install/remove API to allow transaction semantics
	- support for GPG (Toshio Kuratomi <badger@prtr-13.ucsc.edu>)
	- file lookup finally sane wrt symbolic links :-)
	- fileindex format changed -- rebuilddb is necessary for rpm 2.90!!
	- --rebuilddb doesn't open old index files
	- permit http:// and file:// url's as well as ftp://.
	- change --rcfile to permit colon separated file list.
	- compile in defaults from rpmrc/macros.
	- finish hiding rpmdb index record data ("matches").
	- implement abstract fd type almost everywhere.
	- update and rename Czech (Pavel Makovec <pavelm@terminal.cz>)
	- augment --showrc with -v, only display set variables without -v.
	- add macrofiles variable, permit second entry to initMacros().
	- add config.h defines for paths to find-requires et. al.
	- add readRPM to libbuild, headerGetLangs to librpm.
	- permit rpm to be built in a sub-directory (--srcdir=DIR).
	- configure using automake.
	- arch/os (and platform) should be case insensitive everywhere forever.
	- attempt to deal rationally with os as "Linux" or "linux".
	- add generalized expression handler (Tom Dyas<tdyas@remus.rutgers.edu>)
	- use /usr/lib/rpm/mkinstalldirs if mkdir -p fails.
	- more portable dirent handling (Hermann Lauer).
	- add Slovak translation (Stanislav Meduna <stano@trillian.eunet.sk>)
	- gettextify rpmMessage/rpmError/fprintf messages.
	- update po files; add cz to catalogs.
	- cpio_gzip: dup the fd before doing gzdopen (Thanks Erik!)
	- add --noLang to skip non-default languages.
	- writeRPM can now copy cpio archive from fd.
	- preliminary macro environment as side effect of rpmrc parse.
	- macro handling in rpmlib -- rework include: tag with macro expansion.
	- first attempt at librpmbuild API.
        - fixed lib/rpmrc.c to accept include: tags (AdV)
        - fixed the CHANGES file to reflect that this is 2.9, not 3.0 (AdV)
	- aggregate system includes into system.h.
	- rearrange functions to minimize exported routines in librpmbuild API.
	- generalize cpio I/O to eliminate pipe to exec'd gzip on install.
	- add {init,add,expand}Macro args everywhere (new macro.c compatibility)
	- add new fully recursive macro.c
	- there must be a { between two % in a query format (unless %% is used)

2.5.6 -> 2.5.7:
	- permit 0x1b in specfile sanity check.
	- increase timeout in tread from 5 to 30 secs for slow links.
	- rename file before unlinking to avoid EBUSY failures.
	- headerGetEntry now returns count=0 if tag not found (Chris Blizzard).
	- resurrect osf1 as canonical os name (Time Mooney).
	- sub-packages should inheirit Prefixes tag (Ian Mortimer).
	- make '-' character illegal (again) in version/release.
	- use portable #!/bin/sh (Tim Mooney).
	- don't erase failing build script (Tim Mooney).
	- use portable mkinstalldirs (Tim Mooney).
	- irix6 autodeps were dup'd (Shing-Gene Yung <shing@cz3.nus.edu.sg>).
	- getservbyname needed ntohs().
	- propagate "const char *" into rpmlib prototypes.
	- use "original db-1.85" if available (Raw Hide glibc 2.1).
	- make sure files to sign exist before asking for the pass phrase

2.5.5 -> 2.5.6:
	- ultrapenguin 1.1.9 sparc64 changes.
	- attempt ftp ABOR on query/verify url's.
	- cache open ftp control descriptor with password.
	- verify needed same realpath semantics as query.
	- plug fd leak in urlGetFile().
	- translate cpio errors using cpioStrerror.
	- display "..?....." rather than "..5....." for unreadable files.
	- run time (rather than compile time) host endian check.
	- caldera patches (ray@Caldera.DE)
	- added ARM patches.
	- fix incorrect directory permissions using %attr/%defattr.
	- permit "rpm -q --specfile ... file.spec" queries.
	- strncasecmp on spec file separators (KDE has %Description).
	- remove redundant md5 computation on uninstall.
	- permit --rmsource --force even if sources/patches are missing.
	- don't compute md5sum on non-file %config objects. (from Jos Vos)
	- check arch only on RPMBUILD_{PREP,BUILD,INSTALL,PACKAGEBINARY}.
	- configure.in: set default value for RPM. (Tim Mooney)
	- add new Epoch: keyword just like Serial:.
	- update Russian translation w man pages.
	- solaris: don't attempt static link. (Tim Mooney)
	- fix: timeCheck in rpm.c should be unsigned long. (Tim Mooney)
	- osf: prov searches only shared libraries. (Tim Mooney)
	- solaris: set PATH in prov/req scripts. (Tim Mooney)
	- fix: ignore modes on symlinks. (Tim Mooney)
	- sub-packages inherit RPMTAG_EPOCH (just like RPMTAG_VERSION/RELEASE).
	- fix off-by-1 alloca that prevented relocating /.
	- there must be a { between two % in a query format (unless %% is
	  used).

2.5.4 -> 2.5.5:
	- permit rpm to be built in a sub-directory (--srcdir=DIR).
	- return CPIO_BAD_HEADER instead of exiting. (Scott M. Stone)
	- untranslate "(none)" for auto relocating script wrappers.
	- non-linux arch/os identification (Eugene Kanter).
	- portable mode_t/pid_t typedefs.
	- fix check for trailing / in Prefix:
	- remove 2 character language name assumption.
        - add /usr/lib/rpm/find-lang.sh (W. L. Estes <wlestes@uncg.edu>)
	- miscellaneous portability cruft (Eugene Kanter).
	- Makefile: don't use ln -sf.
	- getOutputFrom(): fix race between last read on pipe and child death
	  (exacerbated in 2.5.4).
	- rpm.spec: create /usr/src/redhat/* in %install.

2.5.3 -> 2.5.4:
	- expand args using popt on pre-rpmReadConfigFiles arg pass.
	- skip arch checks if only packaging source rpm.
	- add license field to rpmpopt -qi alias.
	- provides/obsoletes requires tokens that begin with alnum or _.
	- non-zero exit status for verify failures.
	- hpux does setreuid differently (Hermann Lauer).
	- check for setreuid portably (Eugene Kanter).
	- add Serbian translation (Zoltan Csala <zcsala@iname.com>).
	- arch/os tables were not being initialized  for noarch builds.
	- quote users/groups/filenames in --setugids.
	- add Russian translation w man pages (Serguei Koubouchine <ksi@gu.net>)
	- fix virtual file attribute bug that skipped all files in binary rpm.
	- eliminate infinite loop with missing tmpdir (Trent Jarvi).
	- os_canon for CYGWIN32_NT/95.
	- rationalize autoconf detection of gzip/bzip2.
	- restore backward compatible rpmrc/rpmpopt symlinks.
	- update pt_BR translations (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo).
	- permit --{buildroot,timecheck,test,sign} with -tX (Toshio Kuratomi).
	- fix database rebuilds with triggers (Steve Sanberg).
	- diagnostic message if unreadable/short source or patch file.
	- eliminate redundant close in provide/require processing.
	- solaris portability patch resurrection (Steve Sanberg).
	- permit autogen.sh to work on non "prefix=/usr" hosts.
	- add %license/%readme virtual file attributes.
        - align "Build Host:" with other fields.

2.5.2 -> 2.5.3:
	- copy changelog tags to sub-packages just before packaging.
	- added EPOCH handling to supplement serial numbers
	- add RPMTAG_EPOCH and RPMTAG_CAPABILITY init to 0.
	- fix infinite recursion on non-ERANGE return from getcwd() during
	  install (Matt Wilson).
	- rm .depend for multiple builds in same tree (Will Partain)
	- addFile: fix special case of "/" in %files.
	- better query semantics with symlinks (Tim Mooney)
	- build.c: fix incorrect check for successful open
	- allow %define with leading whitespace
	- use /usr/lib/rpm for rpmpopt, rpmrc, find-requires, find-provides
	- added popt 'exec' functionality
	- made --rebuilddb a bit more robust by checking data types
	- added --freshen via popt exec stuff
	- fixed spelling of expected
	- updated de.po (Karl Eichwalder)
	- do a better job of checking for a spec file in tarballs
	  (Pavel Roskin)
	- fixed --triggers alias (Michael Andres)
	- added :hex query format
	- fixed --querytags to display virtual tags
?????	- added --triggers and --triggered by to man page, help, and usage
?????	- added support for epochs

2.5.1 -> 2.5.2:
	- added -bs to build just a source package
	- included irix.req and irix.prov (Tim Mooney)
	- copy CHANGELOG* and URL tags to all subpackages
	- follow symlinks when packaging sources
	- handle %files -f with no %setup (no build directory)
	- fixed ugly i18n header bug
	- deal with lang paths sanely when entries are missing languages
	- fix bug packing /usr/doc when last file was %dir
	- added --last alias
	- fix :depflags query format
	- Group: i18n (like Summary:)
	- make --justdb install files in normal state
	- %{fssizes} segv'd for packages with empty file lists
	- updated HP-UX, OSF1, Irix 6.x dependency scripts (Tim Mooney)
	- added arm and MachTen arch/os info
	- added --filesbypkg query format
	- updated README to have proper URLs
	- updated rpm.spec for proper paths and cleanliness
	- dependency resolution could hang when Provides: line is used in
	  rpmrc (Tim Mooney)
	- updated mips rpmrc entries (Alex deVries)
	- version/release conditional triggers weren't ignoring the trigger	
	  package name at the front of the TRIGGERVERSION
	- added --notriggers for -i and -e
	- made --triggers a synonym for --triggerscripts
	- ftp installs were trying to use /var/tmp/tmp
	- allow whitespace in source/patch lines
	
2.5 -> 2.5.1:
	- fail if sources are not regular files
	- wasn't catching readLine() errors
	- fixed (hopefully) temp file creation problems
	- make %doc obey --test
	- unlink before writing .rpms
	- librpm.c: added headerGzRead()/headerGzWrite()
	- set bzip2path via lib-rpmrc/configure (Toshio Kuratomi)
	- added finish translation (Raimo Koski)
	- prefer db_185.h to db.h (Christopher Seawood)
	- included updated hpux.req (Ralph Goers)
	- added aix.req (Ralph Goers)
	- updated hpux.prov, osf.req, osf.prov (Tim Mooney)
	- set file states for --justdb packages to "not installed"
	- handle missing file states properly in -e code
	- install time wasn missing for --justdb packages
	- missing parameter in an rpmError() caused segfault

2.4.109 -> 2.5:
	- fixed return code bug in build code
	- do macro expansion before %if processing
	- dep ordering returns w/ an error as soon as a prereq loop is found
	- autoreqprov flag was being ignored during builds
	- add autoreq: and autoprov:
	- missed a few unlink() when scripts failed
	- freePrefixes wasn't initialized in runScript()
	- fix typo in %triggerpostun generation
	- include icons in source packages
	- headerGetEntry() should return count of 1 when returning
          strings plucked from i18n strings
	- do not remove comments in scripts
	- save/restore existing arch when done with buildarch
	- copy the I18N table to the source header so i18n stuff works
	- fixed multiple memory leaks in install code
	- fixed bug in part recognition
	- shared files weren't being handled properly in net shared paths

2.4.108 -> 2.4.109:
        - remove icons with --rmsource
        - do dependecy generation on -bl
        - check files on all packages on -bl
	- integrate Jeff Johnson's memleak patches
	- added OSF1 autodep scripts

2.4.107 -> 2.4.108:
        - make --clean work with no %setup
	- fixed FSSIZES problem introduced in 2.4.107
	- fixed search for find-requires.sh
	- improved solaris autodeps scripts
	- automated (somewhat) the -static flag

2.4.106 -> 2.4.107:
	- --nomd5 wasn't handled properly
	- updated configure.in find-req and find-prov checks (Tim Mooney)
        - make --rmsource actually work
	- run postun triggers

2.4.105 -> 2.4.106:
	- build: only check for non-printables in first 128 chars
	- added %triggerpostun
	- linux.req generates deps for shared libs
	- added a CC=@CC@ to popt/Makefile.in
	- handle signed return types from poptGetNextOpt() properly

2.4.104 -> 2.4.105:
	- added langpatt: to rpmrc, and mark files with matches
	- added some C++ cruft to rpmlib.h
	- added find-requires and find-provides for hpux (Tim Mooney)
	- respect LINGUAS when install package files
	- added trigger support to build code
	- got rid of annoying mwftw() type warning
	- fixed many command line options which got broke by changes
	  for non-gcc compilers
	- added trigger support in install code
	- added doc/triggers
	- strntoul() in lib/cpio.c was returning a pointer to freed
	  memory
	- headerAppend() was doing a bad memcpy()

2.4.103 -> 2.4.104:
	- fixed popt/Makefile.in to use CPP from configure
	- use tmppath from rpmrc to for ftp'd files (rather then /var/tmp)
	- autoconf files and .depend files weren't created properly during
	  make archive

2.4.102 -> 2.4.103:
	- need to create popt/configure during make archive
	- added comments about modifictation to base popt and rpmrc files
	- allow spaces in group names
	- fix bug in memory allocation of special doc stuff
	- Jeff Johnson's mode/dev fixes
	- clean up buildroot
	- be more paranoid about making temp files
	- added patches from Tim Mooney which let RPM build with non-gcc
	  compilers and non-GNU versions of make

2.4.101 -> 2.4.102:
	- fixed spelling of "instchangelog" in lib-rpmrc.in
	- fixed memory leak in headerSprintf() extension cache
	- fixed memory allocation for header formatting extension cache
	- added support for INSTPREFIX virtual tag for backwards compatibility
	- cpio error codes were poorly defined, causing bad error messages
	- generates INSTPREFIXES tag properly, and sets RPM_INSTALL_PREFIX
	  and RPM_INSTALL_PREFIXn environment variables
	- fixed memory leak in install code which occured when net shared paths
	  were used
	- don't pass net shared path to rpmInstallPackage() -- it looks 
	  directly in the rpmrc entries
	- don't remove files in netsharedpath, even for files whose states
	  are not net shared
	- changed --setugids to use separate chown and chgrp programs, for
	  better portability
	- popt moved to autoconf
	- Makefiles changed to allow building in a different directory then
	  the source code resides in
	- finally fixed the Build Host spacing in rpmpopt

2.4.100 -> 2.4.101:
	- handle files with spaces (put double quotes around them)
        - new rpmrc setting, buildshell, can be used to set shell
          used for build scripts (default is /bin/sh)
	- fix bug where macros were being improperly set for
	  Patch: and Source: lines
	- may use "instchangelog" in rpmrc to limit the maxmium number of 
	  changelog entries that are stored in the database for each package
	  (-1 means store all of them)
	- default instchangelog is set to 5
	- headerRemoveEntry() didn't free the item's data -- this led to
  	  a slight memory leak when installing packages
        - implemented generic file relocations at install time
          (use --relocate <oldpath>=<newpath>, i.e. --relocate /usr=/foo)
        - added --badreloc flag to force RPM to relocate files which packages
          haven't advertised as relocateable
	- fix return code on failed uncompresses in %prep
	- preliminary handling of bzip2 compressed files
	- differentiates between big and little endian mips
	- added support for "prefixes:" tag

2.4.99 -> 2.4.100:
	- fixed handling of --rebuild and --recompile
	- fixed rpmlibbuild.a typo in Makefile
	- fixed handling of '\' in spec files (a specific case of a more
	  general bug)
	- change use of "export" to work with non-bash shells
	- compress the archives.  oops.
	- fixed bug when there is no %setup
	- added -L$(topdir)/popt to Makefile.inc

2.4.12 -> 2.4.99:
	- added many more i18n strings
        - merged in large rewrite of build code, which includes the following
	  changes:
            - new option --rmsource
	    - all scripts can now take -p <prog>
	    - more strict about %package placement and use of main package 
	      preamble
	    - %attr(mode, user, group [, dirmode])
	    - %defattr()
	    - %defverify()
	    - Root: is depricated.  Use BuildRoot: instead
	    - "nosrc" sources arn't deleted when sources are removed
	    - New tag DocDir: <dir> to set alternate doc dir (default is 
              /usr/doc)
	    - %doc should work as expected with buildroot, prefix, DocDir:
	    - all file processing is done before any packaging
	    - should work with modern patch programs (later than 2.1)
	    - %patch -z <arg> same as %patch -b <arg>
	    - %define only defines a macro if it starts a line
	    - script prog entries are now arrays (ie with arguments)
	    - standard macros: tag names, buildarch, buildos, buildarch_lc, 
              buildos_lc, PATCHn, SOURCEn, PATCHURLn, SOURCEURLn, sourcedir, 
              builddir, optflags
	    - deprecate require_distribution, require_icon, require_vendor
	    - add RPMTAG_FILEDEVICES and RPMTAG_FILEINODES to header
	    - export variables in scripts
	    - fixed tag:field bug
	    - %lang() in %files
	    - %description -l <lang>
	    - Summary(<lang>):
	    - fixed read_line() termination usage
	- Makefile changes to shorten compiler lines

2.4.11 -> 2.4.12:
	- intialize reserved portion of lead when writing packages
	- fixed error messages displayed when opening the database
	  fails during package installation and removal
	- query format of the form '[A%{}]' would drop the static string
	- fixed fix in 2.4.9 for empty packages which broke -qip on ftp URL's
	- fixed arch/os numbers in lead
	- added Turkish message catalog
	- -e was running scripts even w/ --test was specified

2.4.10 -> 2.4.11:
	- HAVE_SYS_SOCKET_H was mistakingly MACHINE_SYS_SOCKET_H in
	  config.h.in
	- \%description was trying to do %d expansion in query formats
	- made %% work in query formats
	- fixed bug in handling characters before array
	- let mips build noarch packages
	- --setperms would set wrong permissions in some cases (it was
	  following symlinks)

2.4.9 -> 2.4.10:
	- obsolete entries could cause segv's during upgrades
	- sources now installed with uid/gid of process rather then
	  the ids used when the src rpm was created
	- don't give an error if missingok files don't exist during remove
	- touched ftp code to make it coexist w/ Red Hat install better
	- use rand/srand rather then random/srandom
	- don't build misc directory unless it's necessary
	- empty package files should be treated the same as files
	  with bad magic, not as read errors
	- fix bug where Prefix directory is included in file list
	- sinix readdir() work-around

2.4.8 -> 2.4.9:
	- fix for verification on systems where a single group id
	  maps to mulitiple group names (Benedict Lofstedt)
	- added 'make tar' rule for building a distribution tarball
	  (Horacio Rodriguez Montero)
	- fixed serial number handling in dependencies and install
	  code
	- make mips compatible with noarch
	- fixed bug w/ printing string arrays in conditionals
	- handle modern patch programs (> 2.1)
	- handle packages w/ duplicate dependency names
	- --noscripts didn't get handled properly for removed packages
	- fixed handling of packages where %prereq creates users/groups

2.4.7 -> 2.4.8:
	- added noarch build compatibilities for ppc, m68k
	- fixed some minor typos (Florian La Roche)
	- added Obsoletes: tag, an upgrade removes packages which
	  have been obsoleted
	- updated rpmdepUpgradePackage() to deal with obsoletes tag
	- convertdb needed to read rpmrc
	- fixed ugly bug in package ordering
	- archivesize tag was incorrect for packages with hard links
	- moved popt into a separate library
	- directory created with %doc is now name-version (dropped
          the release)
	- added buildarch/buildos macros
	- added %ghost file option
	- updated linux.req to only find requirements for exectuable files

2.4.6 -> 2.4.7:
	- had some wrong month lengths in changelog date parsing
	- updated fine-requires (Linux version) to add lines for shell
	  scripts (Donnie Barnes)
	- didn't package / properly
	- pre/post script processing had some erroneous free() calls
	- fixed typos for HP archs in lib/rpmrc.c
	- uname() results should go through *_canon tables before anything
	  else happens
	- set -x in debug shells, not -xs

2.4.5 -> 2.4.6:
	- added os_canon entries for BSD/OS and NextStep
	- replaced include of <malloc.h> with includes of <stdlib.h>
	- fixed md5sum of source packages w/ a buildroot is used
	- fixed bugs installing version 1 packages
	- remove hyphens from uname() result (specifically for HP-UX)
	- hacks to recognize architecture under parisc
	- RPM_INSTALL_PREFIX wasn't being set properly (this should be
	  fixed now)
	- replaced temporary file creation to be race-condition safe
	- prerequisites may not specify versions

2.4.4 -> 2.4.5:
	- call getpwnam()/endpwent() once before a chroot(), forcing name 
	  service shared libs to be loaded from outside of the root path
	- added vesrion stamp to lib/misc.o (and librpm.a by extension)
	- fixed config.sub, config.guess to recognize i686
	- ARCHIVESIZE tag didn't get filled in properly, breaking progress
	  meters

2.4.3 -> 2.4.4:
	- restore working directory after installing a package w/ a chroot
	- dump the package stack when a dependency loop is encountered
	- when a user/group lookup fails, end*ent() and retry 
	- fixed broken --scripts argument (it was --s2)
	- only display the packager and url in -qi output if they have defined
	  values
	- print "(not installed)" as the install time for -p queries rather
	  then "not a number"
	- almost completely rewrote rcfile parsing; I'm sure this will
	  break things eventually but it's much more flexible now
	- added buildarch/buildos compatibility tables, listed values
	  in --showrc
	- added cpio archive building code; GNU cpio is no longer used!
	  packages created w/ rpm 2.4.4 and later cannot be installed with
	  rpm 2.4 - rpm 2.4.3 however (version of RPM before 2.4 will 
	  work fine, however). An "error -2 reading header" happens when
	  this is attempted
	- removed cpiobin from rpmrc
	- added rpmrc "provides" tag to allow easy fulfillment of 
	  automatically generated dependencies
	- look for random() in libm if it can't be found be default
	- fixed problems in Solaris's autodeps stuff (Eric Mumpower)
	- --setperms should work properly on directories now
	- --justdb on install, upgrade, and erasure causes a database
	  update w/o the filesystem being touched
	- fixed version comparison of a package w/ a serial tag against
	  a package w/o one
	- added BuildArchitectures: tag to spec file to enable builds
	  for alternate/multiple architectures
	- look for random() in -lucb
	- changed the licensing terms for librpm to allow redistribution
	  under the LGPL
	- applied man page changes from Alex deVries
	- configure.in builds up LIBS by appending (Benedict Lofstedt)
	- rpm2cpio reported wrong zlib error string
	- removed \n from (none) generated by query format code
	- queries of fssizes w/o fsnames didn't work (Till Bubeck)
	- added --noorder option to skip package reordering (Elliot Lee)

2.4.2 -> 2.4.3:
	- implemented install time prerequisites
	- repaired %{#TAG} query format
	- implemented ternary operator as query expression
	- fixed --scripts to only print information on scripts which
	  are present
	- check symlink() return for < 0, not != 0 (Bob Tanner)
	- uses chroot() for installs --root option
	- archive expansion doesn't create new devices or symlinks when
	  the proper files already exist
	- added -p to %post (etc) to specify the program which a script
	  is run through
	- if -p is used w/ an empty script, the specified program is
	  executed directly 
	- the -p argument (or /bin/sh) is automaticall added as a prereq

2.4.1 -> 2.4.2:
	- completely rewrote queryformat code
	- added fsnames, fssizes virtual query tags
	- added rpmdbFindByHeader() and rpmdbFindByTag() public functions
	- added rpmfilename tag to rpmrc to define the filename format to
	  use for binary packages (note the rpmdir is prepended to it)
	- used pclose() instead of fclose() in -t code
	- updated man pages
	- changed "struct rpmdb" to "struct rpmdb_s" for C++
	- netsharedpath entries shouldn't match partial directory names
	  anymore (a nersharedpath of /usr/lib shouldn't affect /usr/libexec)
	- don't backup config files on netsharedpaths (take 2)
	- added "day" query format which is like date, but doesn't print
	  any time
	- added --changelog alias to query a packages changelog entry
	- added mntctl() support for AIX (I think, I can't test this)
	- fflags query type displays 's' for specfiles, 'm' for missingok
	  files, and 'n' for noreplace files
	- implemented %config(missingok) flag in install
	- added --allfiles flag for -i and -U, which forces all files (even
	  missingok files) to be installed
	- implemented %config(noreplace) for the install, but it hasn't
	  been tested in any way
	- added i18n support to headers
	- added ppc/rs6000 differntiation for AIX
	- all IP* from uname() is changed to just IP
	- IP is considered the same as mips (not sgi)
	- added IRIX64 OS, it's compatible w/ IRIX

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