RPM Package Manager (RPM) 是一个强大的命令行驱动的软件包管理工具，用来安装、卸载、校验、查询和更新 Linux 系统上的软件包。
RPM 4.12.0 发布，此版本包括了弱依赖项（"建议," "推荐," "补充," 和 "增强" 标签）；添加了一个新的 rpm2archive 使用工具，能把包转换成 tar 归档；大量的改进；移除了 "collections" 特性；支持在包中加入超过 4GB 大小的文件。
RPM 4.12.0 现已提供下载，完整改进内容请看这里：
通用 bug 修复和改进：
New --nopretrans and --noposttrans disabler switches (previously tied to --nopre/--nopost)
New --noplugins switch to disable all plugins
New --reinstall mode which can handle changing file policies (RhBug:966715)
New --exportdb and --importdb switches in rpmdb(8)
New --recommends, --suggests, --supplements and --enhances query aliases for querying weak dependencies
New optional payload format to support large (> 4GB) files within packages (ticket #41)
New rpm2archive utility for converting rpm payload to tar archives
Fix curl globbing being enabled on remote retrieval (RhBug:1076277)
Fix $1 argument to %pretrans, %posttrans and %verifyscript to behave like all other scripts
Fix mixed binary + source rpm installation progress (RhBug:984724)
Fix file actions sometimes carrying state across multiple rpmtsRun() calls (RhBug:1076552)
Fix duplicate usernames causing false positives on verification (ticket #872)
Fix ordering to prefer self-provides on ordering when appropriate (RhBug:1111349)
Fix a double-free on unpadded signature header
Add support for "new" architectures:
m68k (again)
Sparc Niagara (detection)
ARM v6 and v7 (hardware FPU detection)
Documentation, translation updates
软件详情：http://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.12.0
下载地址：http://rpm.org/releases/rpm-4.12.x/rpm-4.12.0.tar.bz2
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