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8.184. rpm

Updated rpm packages that fix several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a command-line driven package management system capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying, and updating software packages.

Bug Fixes

BZ#868332
Previously, the brp-python-bytecompile script skipped those paths that included "/usr/lib.*/python.+/" string. Consequently, when creating an RPM that contained Python modules in paths (like "/opt/myapp/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/mypackage/"), bytecode was not created. The reproducer specification has been changed, and bytecode is now created for all paths.
BZ#904818
When wildcard characters were used with the "%caps" tag in the spec file, the rpmbuild utility terminated unexpectedly. The provided patch corrects the problem by making a copy of the caps data for each file it applies to, and thus rpmbuild no longer crashes in the described scenario.
BZ#919435
Previously, when installing a package with a high (80k) number of files, the RPM Package Manager terminated unexpectedly with a segmentation fault. As a workaround, the segmentation fault has been replaced with an error message when a package with a high number of files fails to install.
BZ#920190
Previously the rpm program attempted to unconditionally process any "%include" directive it found in a spec file, either leading to unwanted content in the package or error messages. The updated rpm package properly honours various spec conditionals for "%include".
BZ#963724
With this update, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 backwards-compatibility option, "%_strict_script_errors macro", has been added. The default behavior of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 does not change with this update and users that do not demand this option specifically are not advised to use it.
Users of rpm are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs. All running applications linked against the RPM library must be restarted for this update to take effect.