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Who maintains RPM? (2011 edition)Who maintains RPM? (2011 edition)Posted May 3, 2011 17:44 UTC (Tue) by jmayer (subscriber, #595)Parent article: Who maintains RPM? (2011 edition)
IIRC, the original article (and this article as well) had some mention of rpm4 being highly distrospecific (lots of local patches). It's my *impression* (as an opensuse user) that this diversity has since been significantly reduced. Can anyone with more insight shed some light on this?
Another point mentioned in this article mentions that the migration from rpm4 to rpm5 isn't "simple" - scalability to a big distro and distro tools are mentioned. How much do these changes impact the "ordinary" package maintainer (required changes, bugs, other)?
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Who maintains RPM? (2011 edition) Posted May 4, 2011 1:21 UTC (Wed) by misc (subscriber, #73730) [Link]
Opensuse was running a old 4.2 or 4.4 very patched version of rpm, but they seems to have rebased everything on 4.8 for 11.4 . You can check the various patches on https://build.opensuse.org/package/files?package=rpm&...
Who maintains RPM? (2011 edition) Posted May 4, 2011 2:33 UTC (Wed) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]
openSUSE 11.2 already used rpm-4.7, which indeed, was a big forward leap at that time.
Who maintains RPM? (2011 edition) Posted May 5, 2011 12:16 UTC (Thu) by jschrod (subscriber, #1646) [Link]
To expand that information: Consequences of an update to 4.9 have been discussed recently on the developer's list. The next openSUSE release will probably use that version.
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