RPM 4.20 Approved For Fedora 41 To Advance Hands-Free Packaging

[phoronix]

Phoronix: RPM 4.20 Approved For Fedora 41 To Advance Hands-Free Packaging

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has approved RPM 4.20 to land for the Fedora 41 cycle that will debut in H2'2024. RPM 4.20 is a significant update for this widely-used packaging format...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/RPM-4.20-For-Fedora-41

[CommunityMember]

The declarative build system tooling will make things simpler for some, but until RPM 4.20 is available everywhere that is still shipping/supported (including EL/LTS distros which will never get the updated RPM, but will eventually reach EOL/EOS in a decade or so) packages and packagers who intend to support all existing systems with a common spec file will likely choose to end up using the syntax of older RPM releases.

It should be noted that RPM 4.20 also removes some existing syntax which will *require* changes to existing spec files.

[JEBjames]

Michael

typo

"declrarative" should be "declarative"

[Creak]

It should be noted that RPM 4.20 also removes some existing syntax which will *require* changes to existing spec files.

This is addressed in the proposed change (#Upgrade/compatibility impact). It only affects the spec files that are using the already deprecated syntax "%patchN", which represents a bit over 1000 files (which is not a lot compare to the total amount of spec files), and they'll be updated before the 4.20 release takes place.

[Noitatsidem]

Fedora storming forward as always. I'd be tempted to switch if I wasn't so happy with Nixos.

[npwx]

As a Fedora user, just wondering, what was the last thing Fedora did except updating a bunch of packages? Update the compiler flags to include frame pointers? Sure, this particular one might have some more internal impact than your usual Gnome update. But I feel like Fedora releases have become nothing more than a regular update of a bunch of software packages.

[szymon_g]

what has happened to rpm5? that was somehow in the news a decade or so ago now it's all gone quiet

[FluxTape]

Blaze it

[spicfoo]

what has happened to rpm5? that was somehow in the news a decade or so ago now it's all gone quiet

RPM5 (and RPM6), the forks led by Jeff Johnson has been dead for years. He was a hard developer to work with. Everyone moved back to RPM 4.

[skeevy420]

I thought 6.9 would be the hands free release