[el5_latest] rpm-python-4.4.2.3-36.0.1.el5_11.x86_64

The rpm-python package contains a module that permits applications
written in the Python programming language to use the interface
supplied by RPM Package Manager libraries.

This package should be installed if you want to develop Python
programs that will manipulate RPM packages and databases.

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• Wed Dec 10 2014 Kevin Lyons <kevin.x.lyons@oracle.com> - 4.4.2.3-36.0.1

  - Add missing files in /usr/share/doc/

• Wed Nov 19 2014 Florian Festi <ffesti@redhat.com> - 4.8.0-36

  - Fix warning when applying the patch for #1163057

• Fri Nov 14 2014 Florian Festi <ffesti@redhat.com> - 4.8.0-35

  - Fix race condidition where unchecked data is exposed in the file system
    (CVE-2013-6435)(#1163057)

• Thu Apr 25 2013 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com> - 4.4.2.3-34

  - Fix segfault on rpmdb addition when header unload fails (#706935)
  - Fix segfault on invalid OpenPGP packet (#743203)

• Fri Apr 12 2013 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com> - 4.4.2.3-33

  - Account for excludes and hardlinks wrt payload max size (#716853)
  - Fix payload size tag generation on big-endian systems (#648516)

• Thu Jan 31 2013 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com> - 4.4.2.3-32

  - Track all install failures within a transaction (#671194)

• Thu Aug 02 2012 Florian Festi <ffesti@redhat.com> - 4.4.2.3-31

  - fix changelog (bug #707677 is actually #808547)

• Thu Jul 05 2012 Florian Festi <ffesti@redhat.com> - 4.4.2.3-30

  - Document -D and -E options in man page (#814602)
  - Require matching arch for freshen on colored transactions (#813282)

• Thu Jun 28 2012 Florian Festi <ffesti@redhat.com> - 4.4.2.3-29

  - Add DWARF 3 and 4 support to debugedit (#808547)
  - No longer add \n to group tag in Python bindings (#783451)
  - Fix typos in Japanese rpm man page (#760552)
  - Bump Geode compatibility up to i686 (#620570)

• Tue Feb 28 2012 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com> - 4.4.2.3-28

  - Proper region tag validation on package/header read (CVE-2012-0060)
  - Double-check region size against header size (CVE-2012-0061)
  - Validate negated offsets too in headerVerifyInfo() (CVE-2012-0815)

• Thu Dec 08 2011 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com> - 4.4.2.3-27

  - Revert fix for #740291, too many packages rely on the broken behavior

• Tue Nov 01 2011 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com> - 4.4.2.3-26

  - Add support for XZ-compressed sources and patches to rpmbuild (#620674)
  - Avoid unnecessary assert-death when closing NULL fd (#573043)
  - Add scriptlet error notification callbacks (#533831)

• Tue Nov 01 2011 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com> - 4.4.2.3-25

  - Honor --noscripts for pre- and posttrans scriptlets too (#740345)
  - Avoid bogus error on printing empty ds from python (#628883)
  - File conflicts correctness & consistency fixes (#740291)
  - Create the directory used for transaction lock if necessary (#510469)
  - Only enforce default umask during transaction (#673821)

• Sat Oct 01 2011 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com> - 4.4.2.3-24

  - fix thinko in the CVE backport

• Fri Sep 30 2011 Jindrich Novy <jnovy@redhat.com> - 4.4.2.3-23

  - fix CVE-2011-3378 (#742157)

• Wed Nov 17 2010 Jindrich Novy <jnovy@redhat.com> - 4.4.2.3-22

  - accept windows cr/lf line endings in gpg keys (#530212)

• Wed Nov 17 2010 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com> - 4.4.2.3-21

  - Backport multilib ordering fixes from rpm 4.8.x (#641892)

• Tue Aug 31 2010 Jindrich Novy <jnovy@redhat.com> - 4.4.2.3-20

  - make the sbits removal behavior consistent with all the RHELs

• Fri Aug 27 2010 Jindrich Novy <jnovy@redhat.com> - 4.4.2.3-19

  - fix CVE-2010-2059, fails to drop SUID/SGID bits on package upgrade (#626708)
  - fix SELinux memory leak (#566746), patch from Florian Festi

• Sat Jul 25 2009 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com> - 4.4.2.3-18

  - Really fix #511354

• Wed Jul 22 2009 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com> - 4.4.2.3-17

  - Treat em64t architecture as an alias for x86_64 (#511354)

• Thu Jul 02 2009 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com> - 4.4.2.3-16

  - Disable dependency caching chroot'ed verify (#508074)

• Thu Jun 18 2009 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com> - 4.4.2.3-15

  - pad RSA signatures to modulus size if necessary (#502791)

• Fri May 08 2009 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com> - 4.4.2.3-14

  - small fix to Japanese translation (#387321)

• Thu May 07 2009 Jindrich Novy <jnovy@redhat.com> - 4.4.2.3-13

  - backport default patch fuzz feature from upstream (#471005)
  Resolves: #471005

• Wed Apr 22 2009 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com> - 4.4.2.3-12

  - fix pgp fingerprint calculation (#493777)
  - performance tweaks (#435475)
    - better hash algorithm to speed up initial install
    - avoid crazy memory fragmentation on file fingerprinting
    - eliminate unnecessary allocations from rpmdsCompare() hotpath

• Thu Mar 19 2009 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com> - 4.4.2.3-11

  - dont abort build if debugedit fails (#482903)

• Tue Feb 03 2009 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com> - 4.4.2.3-10

  - Filter out timestamp differences of shared files on verify (#472151)
  - Perform verification in real chroot if --root specified (#434150)
  - Check for arch compatibility on colored transactions too (#472065)

• Wed Dec 03 2008 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com> - 4.4.2.3-9

  - Remove RDTSC timer code causing floating point exceptions on xen (#472467)

• Thu Nov 20 2008 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com> - 4.4.2.3-8

  - Restore default SIGPIPE for scriptlets and --pipe (#471591)

• Thu Oct 16 2008 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com> - 4.4.2.3-7

  - Fix exit code on file not found errors (#463944, #446202)
  - Always honor epoch (no)promote behavior in dependency sets (#466503)

• Sat Oct 04 2008 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com> - 4.4.2.3-6

  - Abort transaction on traceback in python callback (#463999)

• Sat Sep 20 2008 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com> - 4.4.2.3-5

  - Disallow creation of packages larger than we can cleanly handle (#448488)
  - Fix retrieval of multiple packages through proxy (#450205)

• Wed Sep 03 2008 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com> - 4.4.2.3-4

  - Temporarily permit conflicts in /usr/share/doc/ (#460808)
  - Fix --dump usage description in Japanese manual too (#250207)

• Sat Aug 23 2008 Jindrich Novy <jnovy@redhat.com> - 4.4.2.3-3

  - rpm-libs requires popt, add corresponding Requires:
  - Related: #454887

• Fri Aug 15 2008 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com> - 4.4.2.3-2

  - Close all file descriptors before running scriptlets (#453645)
  - Tighten up dependencies between sub-packages

• Wed Aug 13 2008 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com> - 4.4.2.3-1

  - Rebase to RPM 4.4.2.3 from F9 (#454887)
  - Much cleaned up spec
  - NSS used instead of beecrypt for lowlevel crypto (#444805)
  - Provides no longer treated as implicit obsoletes (#233713, #348971)
  - Use root:root for file ownerships everywhere (#439417)
  - Improved .rpmsave/.rpmnew behavior (#426258)
  - Exit code corrections (#244236, #440595)
  - Improved multilib build support (#257921)
  - Improved debuginfo extraction (#251333)
  - Dozens of other issues resolved

• Fri Sep 21 2007 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com> - 4.4.2-48

  - Don't show errors twice on non-existent files (#215712)
  - Update scriptlet names to match what's available (#248128)

• Sat Aug 25 2007 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com> - 4.4.2-47

  - disable ldconfig optimizations (#253492)

• Tue Aug 21 2007 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com> - 4.4.2-46

  - Rebuild due to apparent builroot temporary hickup to really fix #211119

• Tue Aug 07 2007 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@redhat.com> - 4.4.2-45

  - Create x86_64 compat macros for ia32e and amd64 (#211119)

• Thu Jun 28 2007 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@redhat.com> - 4.4.2-44

  - Fix typo in script

• Thu Jun 28 2007 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@redhat.com> - 4.4.2-43

  - Group multilb packages patch from jbj (#220348,#225074,#225077)

• Wed Jun 27 2007 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com> - 4.4.2-42

  - actually apply the multiple installs patch (#213399)

• Wed Jun 27 2007 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com> - 4.4.2-41

  - permit multiple versions of a package to be installed within a transaction
    with -i (#213399)

• Fri Jun 22 2007 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@redhat.com> - 4.4.2-40

  - Update replaced state in transaction (#237478)

• Tue Jun 19 2007 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@redhat.com> - 4.4.2-39

  - Preserve replaced state in transaction (#237478)

• Tue Jun 05 2007 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@redhat.com> - 4.4.2-38

  - Update userlock patch for potential segfault (#231146)

• Fri Jan 05 2007 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@redhat.com> - 4.4.2-37

  - Build without neon (#213055)

• Tue Nov 21 2006 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@redhat.com> - 4.4.2-36

  - Fix ordering issues (#214865)

• Wed Nov 01 2006 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@redhat.com> - 4.4.2-35

  - Flush query buffer patch from jbj (#212833)

• Wed Nov 01 2006 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@redhat.com> - 4.4.2-34

  - Debuginfo extraction with O0

• Thu Oct 26 2006 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@redhat.com> - 4.4.2-33

  - Fix for ordering (#202540, #202542, #202543, #202544)

• Fri Sep 08 2006 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@redhat.com> - 4.4.2-32

  - Various debuginfo fixes (#165434, #165418, #149113, #205339)

• Sat Jul 22 2006 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@redhat.com> - 4.4.2-31

  - Apply matchpathcon patch

• Thu Jul 20 2006 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@redhat.com> - 4.4.2-30

  - Fix debugedit for ppc relocations (#199473)

• Sat Jul 15 2006 David Cantrell <dcantrell@redhat.com> - 4.4.2-29

  - Fixed null pointer problem in rpmfcELF() DT_GNU_HASH handling

• Wed Jul 12 2006 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@redhat.com> - 4.4.2-28

  - Detect and provide a requirement for DT_GNU_HASH

• Thu Jul 06 2006 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@redhat.com> - 4.4.2-27

  - IPv4/6 and EPSV support by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <misiek@pld.org.pl>

• Thu Jun 29 2006 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@redhat.com> - 4.4.2-26

  - Force CHANGELOGTIME to be a list in rpm-python

• Thu Jun 29 2006 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@redhat.com> - 4.4.2-25

  - Remove SELinux context verification (#193488)

• Fri May 05 2006 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@redhat.com> - 4.4.2-24

  - File classification with autoReq off (#190488)

• Fri May 05 2006 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 4.4.2-23

  - make rpm-libs requires on base package stronger

• Thu May 04 2006 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 4.4.2-22

  - put in simple workaround for per-file deps with autoreq off (#190488) 
    while pnasrat works on a real fix

• Sat Apr 29 2006 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 4.4.2-21

  - run ldconfig in -libs subpackage %post, not main package
  - add patch to generate shared lib deps by following symlinks so that 
    -devel packages sanely depend on main libs

• Fri Apr 28 2006 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@redhat.com> - 4.4.2-20

  - Update --trusted stubs for rpmk breakage

• Wed Apr 26 2006 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@redhat.com> - 4.4.2-19

  - Add --trusted stubs from upstream

• Thu Apr 13 2006 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@redhat.com> - 4.4.2-18

  - Resurrect doxygen (#187714)

• Wed Apr 12 2006 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 4.4.2-17

  - remove redundant elfutils-libelf buildrequires
  - rpm-python doesn't require elfutils (related to #188495)

• Sat Apr 01 2006 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@redhat.com> - 4.4.2-16

  - Skipdirs on erase again (#187308)
  - Make fcntl lock sensitive to --root (#151255)
  - Fix netshared path comparison (#52725)
  - Fix rpm vercmp (#178798)

• Sat Feb 11 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com> - 4.4.2-15.2

  - bump again for double-long bug on ppc(64)

• Wed Feb 08 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com> - 4.4.2-15.1

  - rebuilt for new gcc4.1 snapshot and glibc changes

• Tue Jan 31 2006 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@redhat.com> - 4.4.2-15

  - Rebuild for newer neon
  - Fix scriptlet deadlock (#146549)

• Thu Jan 19 2006 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@redhat.com> - 4.4.2-14

  - Don't emit perl(main) (#177960)

• Thu Jan 12 2006 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@redhat.com> - 4.4.2-13

  - Don't mmap large files

• Tue Jan 10 2006 Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com> - 4.4.2-12

  - Add mono req/provides support

• Fri Dec 02 2005 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@redhat.com> - 4.4.2-11

  - Remove rpm .la files (#174261)
  - Cron job use paths (#174211)

• Wed Nov 30 2005 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@redhat.com> - 4.4.2-10

  - Ignore excluded size (#89661)

• Wed Nov 30 2005 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@redhat.com> - 4.4.2-9

  - Don't skipDirs on erasures (#140055)

• Tue Nov 29 2005 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@redhat.com> - 4.4.2-8

  - Add elfutils Build Requires to rpmbuild (#155129)
  - Don't do conflicts if both files %ghost(#155256)
  - Fix popt charset for various languages (#172155)
  - Don't include .la file (#174261)

• Wed Nov 09 2005 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 4.4.2-7

  - rebuilt with new openssl

• Mon Oct 10 2005 Florian La Roche <laroche@redhat.com>

  - rebuild for sqlite changes

• Fri Sep 23 2005 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@redhat.com> - 4.4.2-5

  - Actually fix context verification where matchpathcon fails (#162037)

• Sat Aug 27 2005 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@redhat.com> - 4.4.2-4

  - Fix build with CFLAGS having --param
  - Fix for context verification in /tmp (#162037)

• Thu Jul 28 2005 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@redhat.com> - 4.4.2-3

  - popt minor version requires

• Wed Jul 27 2005 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@redhat.com> - 4.4.2-2

  - popt minor version bump
  - revert to perl.req/perl.prov for now

• Fri Jul 22 2005 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@redhat.com> - 4.4.2-1

  - Upgrade to upstream release

• Wed May 25 2005 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@redhat.com> - 4.4.1-21

  - Update translations (#154623)

• Sun May 22 2005 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@redhat.com> - 4.4.1-20

  - Drop signature patch
  - dangling unpackaged symlinks

• Wed May 18 2005 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@redhat.com> - 4.4.1-19

  - Check for symlinks in check-files (#108778)
  - Move zh_CN (#154623)
  - Test fix for signing old rpms (#127113)

• Thu May 05 2005 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@redhat.com> - 4.4.1-18.1

  - Fix typo
  - Fix typo

• Thu May 05 2005 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@redhat.com> - 4.4.1-18

  - Add missing fsm.c from matchpathcon patches

• Wed May 04 2005 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@redhat.com> - 4.4.1-17

  - Fix typo

• Wed May 04 2005 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@redhat.com> - 4.4.1-16

  - Yet more matchpathcon

• Wed May 04 2005 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@redhat.com> - 4.4.1-15

  - Some more matchpathcon work

• Tue May 03 2005 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@redhat.com> - 4.4.1-14

  - matchpathcon fixup

• Tue May 03 2005 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@redhat.com> - 4.4.1-13

  - Use matchpathcon (#151870)

• Sun May 01 2005 Miloslav Trmac <mitr@redhat.com> - 4.4.1-12

  - Remove $RPM_BUILD_ROOT and $RPM_BUILD_DIR from distribued .la files (#116891)
  - Don't ship static version of _rpmdb.so
  - BuildRequires: readline-devel

• Thu Apr 28 2005 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@redhat.com> - 4.4.1-11

  - Fix for (pre,postun) (#155700)
  - Erase ordering

• Thu Apr 28 2005 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 4.4.1-10

  - add patch to fix segfault with non-merged hdlists

• Fri Apr 01 2005 Thomas Woerner <twoerner@redhat.com> 4.4.1-9

  - enabled prereqs again

• Tue Mar 22 2005 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@redhat.com> 4.4.1-8

  - Add devel requires libselinux-devel
  - Fileconflicts as FC3 (#151609)

• Thu Mar 10 2005 Jeff Johnson <jbj@jbj.org> 4.4.1-7

  - rebuild against renamed sqlite package (#149719).

• Tue Mar 08 2005 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 4.4.1-6

  - fix build with new glibc

• Tue Mar 08 2005 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 4.4.1-5

  - disable hkp by default

• Wed Mar 02 2005 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 4.4.1-4

  - fix build with gcc 4

• Tue Mar 01 2005 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 4.4.1-3

  - fix posttrans callback check being backwards (#149524)

• Mon Feb 14 2005 Jeff Johnson <jbj@jbj.org> 4.4.1-1

  - don't classify files in /dev (#146623).
  - don't build with sqlite3 if <sqlite3.h> is missing.

• Sun Feb 13 2005 Jeff Johnson <jbj@jbj.org> 4.4.1-0.24

  - zlib: uniqify certain symbols to prevent name space pollution.
  - macosx: include <sys/types.h> so that python sees the u_char typedef.
  - macosx: change to --prefix=/usr rather than /opt/local.
  - use waitpid rather than SIGCHLD reaper.
  - rip out DB_PRIVATE revert if not NPTL, it's not the right thing to do.

• Sat Feb 12 2005 Jeff Johnson <jbj@jbj.org> 4.4.1-0.22

  - permit build scriptlet interpreters to be individually overridden.

• Fri Feb 11 2005 Jeff Johnson <jbj@jbj.org> 4.4.1-0.20

  - perform callbacks as always (#147537).

• Thu Feb 03 2005 Jeff Johnson <jbj@jbj.org> 4.4.1-0.16

  - fix: length of gpg V4 hash seed was incorrect (#146896).
  - add support for V4 rfc-2440 signatures.

• Tue Feb 01 2005 Jeff Johnson <jbj@jbj.org> 4.4.1-0.14

  - add sqlite internal (build still expects external sqlite3-3.0.8).
  - sqlite: revert to original narrow scoping of cOpen/cClose.

• Sat Jan 29 2005 Jeff Johnson <jbj@jbj.org> 4.4.1-0.12

  - python: force dbMatch() h# key to be 32 bit integer (#146477).

• Wed Jan 26 2005 Jeff Johnson <jbj@jbj.org> 4.4.1-0.10

  - more macosx fiddles.
  - move global /var/lock/rpm/transaction to dbpath.
  - permit fcntl path to be configured through rpmlock_path macro.
  - add missing #if defined(ENABLE_NLS) (#146184).

• Tue Jan 18 2005 Jeff Johnson <jbj@jbj.org> 4.4.1-0.8

  - changes to build on Mac OS X using darwinports neon/beecrypt.
  - add https://svn.uhulinux.hu/packages/dev/zlib/patches/02-rsync.patch

• Mon Jan 10 2005 Jeff Johnson <jbj@jbj.org> 4.4.1-0.7

  - build against external/internal neon.

• Wed Jan 05 2005 Jeff Johnson <jbj@jbj.org> 4.4.1-0.6

  - mac os x patches (#131943,#131944,#132924,#132926).
  - mac os x patches (#133611, #133612, #134637).

• Mon Jan 03 2005 Jeff Johnson <jbj@jbj.org> 4.4.1-0.5

  - upgrade to db-4.3.27.
  - revert MAGIC_COMPRESS, real fix is in libmagic (#143782).
  - upgrade to file-4.12 internal.

• Wed Dec 08 2004 Jeff Johnson <jbj@jbj.org> 4.4.1-0.3

  - use package color as Obsoletes: color.

• Tue Dec 07 2004 Jeff Johnson <jbj@jbj.org> 4.4.1-0.2

  - automagically detect and emit "python(abi) = 2.4" dependencies.
  - popt 1.10.1 to preserve newer.

• Mon Dec 06 2004 Jeff Johnson <jbj@jbj.org> 4.4.1-0.1

  - force *.py->*.pyo byte code compilation with brp-python-bytecompile.