After the year of development The release of the batch manager RPM 4.17.0 . RPM4 project develops Red Hat and is used in distributions such as RHEL (including CENTOS, SCIENTFIC Linux, Asialinux, Red Flag Linux, Oracle Linux), Fedora, Suse, OpenSuse, Alt Linux, Openmandriva, Mageia, Pclinuxos, Tizen and Many others. A previously independent team of developers developed a project rpm5 , which is not directly related to RPM4 and is currently abandoned (not updated since 2010). Project code extends under licenses GPLV2 and LGPLV2.
The most noticeable improvements in RPM 4.17:
- Improved processing of failures during installation.
- Improved interface for creating macros in Lua.
- Added built-in Macro% {EXIST: …} to check availability of a file.
- extended API capabilities for transaction processing.
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