The RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a powerful command line driven package management system capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying, and updating software packages. Each software package consists of an archive of files along with information about the package like its version, a description, etc. It also includes the RPM C library and header files. These development files will simplify the process of writing programs which manipulate RPM packages and databases and are intended to make it easier to create graphical package managers or any other tools that need an intimate knowledge of RPM packages in order to function. License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) Changes:
This release includes rpmrepo (to generate repository metadata), rpmmtree (an enhanced version of the BSD mtree(8) program), and rpmdigest (an analogue of the GNU coreutils digest programs with support for URIs and additional digest/hash/CRC algorithms). Internally, it has been upgraded to use db 4.7.25 and Lua 5.1.3. LZMA uses liblzma rather than external helpers. noarch sub-packages and identically named sub-packages with different versions are supported. Additional query format extensions to transform package metadata were added. Indentation issues dumping package metadata using YAML are fixed.

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