On 4/7/22 19:47, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 12:24 PM Ben Cotton <bcot...@redhat.com> wrote:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RPM-4.18

== Summary ==
Update RPM to the [https://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.18.0 4.18] release.

== Owner ==

* Name: [[User:pmatilai|Panu Matilainen]]
* Email: pmati...@redhat.com


== Detailed Description ==

RPM 4.18 contains various improvements over previous versions, but in
particular this release addresses a whole class of symlink handling
related security issues, some with CVE's, from 2021. Other notable
improvements include
* A more intuitive conditional builds macro `%bcond`

I looked this up[1] because it caught my attention. This is an
extremely welcome change and I would like to shower praise upon
everyone who worked on it.


One thing I noticed while perusing the new docs: the documentation for
%autosetup is incomplete. The doc reads: "Generally %autosetup accepts
the same arguments as %setup does", but the section on %setup no
longer exists. Only the unique arguments for %autosetup are listed.

I don't think our docs ever covered %setup, that would've been max-rpm more likely. Of course, %setup *should* be covered by our docs, and ditto for %patch.

        - Panu -
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