rpminspect-2.0 released

rpminspect 2.0 is now available. The last release was in October of 2023. That was twelve months ago, or a year! In fact, this blog post is my first post of 2024. Ooops, guess I failed to do more of that this year. This release includes a lot of …

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rpminspect-1.12.1 released

rpminspect 1.12.1 is now available. The last release was in March of 2023. That was eight months ago! This release is trying to compete with 1.11 for largest release of the project so far, but did not quite make it. There were 147 closed issues in this …

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Flock Ireland

The annual Fedora Contributor Conference, Flock to Fedora, has come and gone. Our last conference was actually in 2019 in Budapest, Hungary. Then when the pandemic hit we discontinued in person events. We held Fedora Nest online events during those years. While those were successful, I miss being able to …

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Security Checks in rpminspect

Summary

Some changes have been made to how rpminspect honors settings in local configuration files. With rpminspect you can modify a local rpminspect configuration file to control how individual inspections run. The change is that any check that would produce a Security waiver authorization is now something that the local …

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rpminspect-1.11 released

rpminspect 1.11 is now available. The last release was in June of 2022. This release is definitely the largest so far. There are 258 closed issues in this release across 211 pull requests in 354 different commits.

This release saw a lot of continued fixes in specific inspections, such …

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rpminspect-1.10 released

rpminspect 1.10 is now available. The last release was in March of 2022. This release is definitely the largest so far. Nearly 200 individual pull requests and 147 reported issues have been fixed.

The main focus of this release has been stabilization across many packages. We have been running …

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Migrating From irssi to weechat

I’ve been using irssi for a long time with no complaints. Well that’s not true. I complain about a lot of things. But at least with irssi I was able to centralize all of my chat systems in to one client running in a terminal window. I can …

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rpminspect-1.9 released

rpminspect 1.9 is now available. The last release was in November of 2021, so this release includes a lot of new functionality and bug fixes.

Among the many changes and bug fixes is the addition of the rpmdeps inspection. This inspection checks for consistency and expected changes in dependency …

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rpminspect-1.8 released

rpminspect 1.8 is now available. I know it’s been merely days since the previous release, but this release includes bug fixes for the new unicode inspection.

Work on 1.9 has begun. Please file issues and feature requests on the GitHub project page: https://github.com/rpminspect/rpminspect …

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rpminspect-1.7 released

rpminspect 1.7 is now available. This release includes a lot of fine tuning and bug fixing as more projects and workflows adopt rpminspect.

The main feature present in the 1.7 release is the unicode inspection. This inspection has been added in response to the Trojan Source vulnerabilities that …

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