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rpmrebuild is a tool to build an RPM file from a package that has already been installed, or from an rpm file.

In this release, some bugfix (thanks xujing) :
- fix --cap-from-fs is not as expected when use libcap-2.32 (xujing)
- reset %defattr when users want to keep files permission, uid and gid (xujing)
- fix -k may not keep uid or gid (xujing)

rpmrebuild is a tool to build an RPM file from a package that has already been installed, or from an rpm file.

In this release, some bugfix (thanks xujing), a new plugin (exclude_from) and a lot of unitary tests

here is the full changelog
- fix -r does not work (xujing)
- fix spelling errors that could mislead users (xujing)
- fix --comment-missing=n does not work (xujing)
- fix --cap-from-fs does not work (xujing)
- all shell are bash
- clean test x$var, use -z
- change email to tutanota
- change copyright year
- change gpg key
- fix warnings from shellcheck
- add unitary tests for plugins and options
- if batch mode, do not edit any spec part
- spec_only : display spec name if successfull
- echo+read in one line with read -p
- add new plugin exclude_file to exclude files from spec
- split tests in t directory
- bugfix in nodoc plugin
- rename internal variable with RPMREBUILD_ prefix

rpmrebuild is a tool to build an RPM file from a package that has already been installed.

this release fixes some bugs :

• fix bug if more than 10 args (thanks Dmitry V. Levin)
• add signal trapping to clean directory
• fix warnings from shellcheck
• fix problem when rebuild filesystem package (builroot not a directory)
• fix installation test for kernel and multi-arch packages

rpmrebuild is a tool to build an RPM file from a package that has already been installed.

this release fixes some bugs and improve diagnostics on errors

• fix error on rpmrebuild_files.sh line 204 (verify tag)
• use env in shebang to avoid path problemes (/bin versus /usr/bin)
• updated htmc doc (features, usage)
• avoid shebang translation for rpmrebuild packages (__brp_mangle_shebangs macro)
• fix bug on change-spec-preamble (move processing_init before CommandLineParsing) thanks Nerijus
• fix cpio problem : add --no-absolute-filenames option
• better diagnostic on internal error

rpmrebuild is a tool to build an RPM file from a package that has already been installed.

A big work to have rpmrebuild work with older rpm version, even 3.x.

• add list of optional tags, to allow rpmrebuild work with old rpm versions
• add dependency on setarch
• add debug code (calls on functions)
• use local variables to avoid conflicts
• rewrite html target in Makefile
• suppress VERSION (use Version)
• add comments in rpmrebuild_rpmqf.src to avoid bad syntax after GenRpmQf
• test if awk support non-posix lshift (qf_spec_requires_raw)
• workaround for redhat 6.x / rpm 3.x, thanks Francesco

rpmrebuild is a tool to build an RPM file from a package that has already been installed.

rpmrebuild can now handle recommends / supplements rpm tags

rpmrebuild is a tool to build an RPM file from a package that has already been installed.

the changes are on requires tag :
- a patch from Bruce Jerrick : Handle Requires(pre,post,preun,postun)
- add new requires syntax with if ( redhat-rpm-config )

rpmrebuild is a tool to build an RPM file from a package that has already been installed.

Made minor grammatical fixes to English language translations (patch from beroset)

rpmrebuild is a tool to build an RPM file from a package that has already been installed.

it is only an rpm dependency changes : the dependency on rpmbuild binary is replaced by a dependency on rpm-build package.

For security reasons, I have a new gpg key, used to sign the packages.
It is avalaible as usual on http://rpmrebuild.sourceforge.net/gpg.asc
and on https://sks-keyservers.net/

pub 4096R/D6F7A56A 2015-08-04 Eric Gerbier gerbier@users.sourceforge.net
Empreinte clef princip. : 9BBD C9B9 29A3 1EE7 1E1E DD71 F52C 885A D6F7 A56A

the project has migrated from subversion to git on Monday Nov 25

rpmrebuild is a tool to build an RPM file from a package that has already been installed.

a new option (install) is added to install the builded package at end of processus.

rpmrebuild is a tool to build an RPM file from a package that has already been installed.

this is a bugfix release for 2.10 : the install test was inverted (applied on rpm files instead installed packages)

rpmrebuild is a tool to build an RPM file from a package that has already been installed.

• add tag DISTTAG (feature request)
• do not test install if work on rpm files
• applied patch from Olivier Bourdon for pretrans and postrans tags

rpmrebuild is a tool to build an RPM file from a package that has already been installed.

this release is designed to fix a problem with rpm 4.10 (Fedora 18) - error: incorrect format: invalid field width

rpmrebuild is a tool to build an RPM file from a package that has already been installed.

This is a feature release :
- can handle SUGGESTS/ENHANCES rpm tag
- add --cap-from-fs/cap-from-db options
- allow rpmbuild -tb work on tar.gz

rpmrebuild is a tool to build an RPM file from a package that has already been installed.

the changelog is :

* patch from Andreas Kainz for package file checking
* add new unset_tag plugin
* add support for rpm version 5 (mandriva)
* fix -l / --list-plugin option
* add support of posix capability
* add new un_prelink plugin (suggest from Han Holl)
* add RPMREBUILD_OPTS environment variable
* fix problem with different architecture (build 32bit on 64bits)
* fix bad arch on gpg-pubkey packages... read more

rpmrebuild is a tool to build an RPM file from a package that has already been installed.

This release fixes a blocking bug, when working on source packages, or on ghost files

rpmrebuild is a tool to build an RPM file from a package that has already been installed.

- apply patch from ndyankov : support for broken symlinks
- specfile will allow build package for rpm version 4 or 3
- Added support for obsolete version and flags (bugfix by Valery Reznic)

two new options are added :
--list-plugin : list all installed rpmrebuild plugins
--md5-compat-digest ; will build rpm packages with checksum compatible with rpm < 4.6

Previous release of rpmrebuild are broken with rpm >= 4.6 (exemple : fedora 10 , rpm-4.6.0-0.rc3.1.fc10.i386).

This release is designed to fix this problem, and can work with all rpm 4.x versions

this release fix a problem with last mandriva releases : we have to bypass a new mandriva security on rpmbuild

rpmrebuild is a tool to build an RPM file from a package that has already been installed. It can be used to easily build modified packages, and works on any Linux distribution that uses RPM.

this release fix a bug when working an rpm file with a path

Rpmrebuild is a tool to build an RPM file from a package that has already been installed

This release fix a bug with --pug-from-fs (keep uid/gid).
It comes with new plugins to help users understand and developp their own one.
We added also a french localisation in UTF-8

the main change is message/man internationalisation (currently french and english are available)