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rpmrestore allow to restore changed files attributes (owner, group, mode, mtime) from rpm database, which contains all install attributes. It act as improved "rpm -V" and "rpm --setperms" commands : interactive or batch mode, log file, ...

this release is built on fedora 36 :

• change email from gerbier@users.sourceforge.net to eric.gerbier@tutanota.com
• change gpg key to F80D3B85029F2DACC6A8469A364644463D1079A1
• rename md5 option into digest
• digest may be also sha256, sha512 ...
• bugfix get capability from rpm database
• bugfix can restore empty capability
• makefile now use rpmsign

rpmrestore allow to restore changed files attributes (owner, group, mode, mtime) from rpm database, which contains all install attributes. It act as improved "rpm -V" and "rpm --setperms" commands : interactive or batch mode, log file, ...

this release is built on fedora 23 :

• change shebang to use /usr/bin/env
• fix perlcritic warnings
• fix rpmbuild problems on bad date in changelog
• fix regression test
• display date in better human format (date2human)
• fix rpm query format for FILEMODES
• deprecated syntax => old syntax for -package/-file options
• rpmrestore_all : fix internationalisation text problem

For security reasons, I have a new gpg key, used to sign the packages.
It is avalaible as usual on http://rpmrestore.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

rpmrestore allow to restore changed files attributes (owner, group, mode, mtime) from rpm database, which contains all install attributes. It act as improved "rpm -V" and "rpm --setperms" commands : interactive or batch mode, log file, ...

• add rpmrestore_all.pl tool
• bugfix interactive mode
• check if file is owned by several packages

rpmrestore allow to restore changed files attributes (owner, group, mode, mtime) from rpm database, which contains all install attributes. It act as improved "rpm -V" and "rpm --setperms" commands : interactive or batch mode, log file, ...

new features :
- change api to be more natural (-f/-p otions are deprecated)
- add global configuration file /etc/rpmrestorerc

rpmrestore allow to restore changed files attributes (owner, group, mode, mtime) from rpm database, which contains all install attributes. It act as improved "rpm -V" and "rpm --setperms" commands : interactive or batch mode, log file, ...

new features : add capability option to manage posix capabilities

This is not available on all linux distributions.
You can look at getcap/setcap man pages for more informations.

the Source Code Management is moved from subversion to git

the code should now work with any shell (not only posix shell). man page have been standardized

rpmrestore allow to restore changed files attributes (owner, group, mode, mtime) from rpm database, which contains all install attributes. It act as improved "rpm -V" and "rpm --setperms" commands : interactive or batch mode, log file, ...

new features : rpmrestore an now use 3 configuration file (host, home, local)

bug fixes : localisation, "rpm -V" parsing, line-feed on md5 field... read more

A bug was fixed which prevent rpmrestore to work on directories (no md5 checksum)

rpmrestore allow to restore changed files attributes (owner, group, mode, mtime) from rpm database, which contains all install attributes. It act as improved "rpm -V" and "rpm --setperms" commands : interactive or batch mode, log file ...

A french translation was added in rpm spec file.
The perl syntax is checked on building package

The software goes to stable version ...

* add more tests (if package exists, if file exists ...)
* add more infos (stats)
* add regression tests (test_rpmrestore.pl)

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incompatibility :
* the log format was changed (previous log will not work with this release)
* default behavior is to work on all attributes

bugfix :
* rollback was fixed

new features :
* can use rcfile
* recode rollback to use options (batch, dryrun, attributes choice)

add md5 attribute (can only compare)

add a test for superuser account and force dry-run if not

first public release