Changelog

2.1

• Exclude dirs known to be owned by many packages from conflict checking.

• If check-upgrade finds a package upgradable by its modular version, skip it.

• Make it possible to run rpmdeplint as a library.

• Skip modular packages when checking for conflicts.

• Add --allconflicts option to check-conflicts and check to always check all remote packages for each potentially-conflicting filename, rather than stopping after the first one (avoids hiding problems at the cost of more bandwidth).

• Optimize conflict checking by iterating the package pool only once instead of once per package under test.

2.0

• Make metalinks work on CentOS Stream 9

2.0rc3

• Repodata cache now works with metalink/mirrorlist (RHBZ#1343247).

• Don’t leak directories in /var/tmp/rpmdeplint-* (RHBZ#1343247).

• Allow passing a metalink for –repo instead of baseurl (RHBZ#1454525).

• Allow passing only a configured repo name for --repo.

• Modernize deprecated stuff.

• Refactoring.

• Unit and acceptance tests moved to tests/.

• Code from __init__.py moved to analyzer.py.

2.0rc2

• Easier development/maintaining:

  • pre-commit

  • Use Packit to:

    • build RPMs in Copr

    • run tests in Testing Farm

    • create PRs in dist-git

    • run Koji builds

    • create Bodhi updates

  • Static type hints

  • Automatically deploy documentation to GitHub Pages

  • Automatically publish new releases to PyPI

• Require Python >= 3.9

• Ditch setup.py in favour of pyproject.toml

• The man page is no longer built and installed automatically. Run 'make -C docs man' to build it (related to RHBZ#2221957).

2.0rc1

• Added yum repository caching which performs regular cleans for files more than one week old. This expiry period can be modified with the environment variable RPMDEPLINT_EXPIRY_SECONDS.

• The rpmdeplint.DependencyAnalyzer class no longer needs to be “entered” as a context manager. The class still supports the context manager protocol as a no-op for backwards compatibility.

• Added --quiet option which tells rpmdeplint to only print error messages.

• Use libsolv directly instead of hawkey (RHBZ#1422873).

• Handle “installonly” packages properly (RHBZ#1465734).

• Rearrange conflict checking algorithm (RHBZ#1465736).

• Download only the package header, not complete RPMs.

• Include all possible problematic rules in the problem description.

1.4

• Fixed handling of the xml:base attribute in repodata. Previously, if a repo used xml:base to refer to packages stored at a different URL, rpmdeplint would fail to download them when it performed conflict checking (RHBZ#1448768).

• If a package fails to download, a clean error message is now reported. Previously this would result in an unhandled exception, which triggered abrt handling (RHBZ#1423678).

• Fixed usage message when no subcommand is given on Python 3.3+ (RHBZ#1445990).

1.3

• If you are testing only noarch packages, you must now explicitly pass the --arch option to specify the target architecture you are testing against. Previously the checks would run but produce nonsensical results (RHBZ#1392635).

• The check for undeclared file conflicts has been improved:

  • File conflicts are not reported if the two conflicting packages cannot be installed together due to Requires relationships (RHBZ#1412910).

  • It no longer downloads every potentially conflicting package to check. Only the first potential conflict is checked, to avoid downloading a very large number of packages for commonly shared paths such as /usr/lib/debug (RHBZ#1400722).

• A more informative exception is now raised when downloading repodata fails.

• Added a --version option to print the installed version of rpmdeplint.

1.2

• Added a new option --repos-from-system for testing against repositories from the system-wide Yum/DNF configuration.

• Conflict checking now works correctly with RPM 4.11 (as found on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and derivatives). Previously it was relying on an API only present in RPM 4.12+.

• Fixed spurious errors/warnings from check-repoclosure when the arch of the packages being tested did not match the host architecture where rpmdeplint was run (RHBZ#1378253).

1.1

• Added check-upgrade command, to ensure that the given packages are not upgraded or obsoleted by an existing package in the repository.

• Added check-repoclosure command, to check whether repository dependencies can still be satisfied with the given packages.

• Added check command which performs all the different checks.

• The command-line interface now uses a specific exit status (3) to indicate that a check has failed, so that it can be distinguished from other error conditions.

1.0

• Initial release. Supports checking dependency satisfiability and undeclared file conflicts.