> The user visible parts of rpm actually aren't that different > in current rpm versions, most of the changes are under the hood. I > skimmed through the chapter 10 and there's very little that needs updating: > New things in F12: > - 10.2.7 Verifying: assuming RPM will be built with POSIX file > capability support, the verify output can contain 'P' to indicate > capabilities differing from what was expected. > > Other minor corrections, applicaple to RHEL 5 as well: > - 10.2.2.3 Unresolved dependency: the part about rpmdb-redhat package > and --redhatprovides switch wont work in F12. But actually this is > true of RHEL 5 already, the rpmdb-redhat package doesn't exist there > either. The only difference for F12 is that the underlying ugly > mechanism is gone from rpm itself too. > - 10.3.1 Importing keys: using 'rpm -qa gpg-pubkey*' is not an error but > this'll give the same result much faster: 'rpm -q gpg-pubkey'. > - 10.5.2 Useful websites: rpm-list doesn't exist anymore, > this has moved to upstream: rpm-list, list info page being here: > https://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list. This isn't related > to F12 and could/should be updated for current versions too.
Also explain: rpm -q --whatprovides "bar.so.3()(64bit)" ...which is currently in the text.