OpenPKG 1.0 Released

Ralf S. Engelschall writes: "I'm proundly announcing today the release of OpenPKG 1.0, the world of cross-platform RPM-based Unix software packaging. A flexible and powerful software packaging facility, OpenPKG eases installation and administration of Unix software across several platforms. It primarily targets the Unix platforms FreeBSD, Linux and Solaris, but is portable across mostly all modern Unix flavors. OpenPKG was created in November 2000 and after over one year of development it is already a mature technology in production use. It is available as Open Source and is further maintained by both my development team at Cable & Wireless Germany and our contributors. For more details visit openpkg.org and ftp.openpkg.org."

Comments

Time loss

[leandrod]

RPM was created as duplication of effort, because Debian wasn't willing to rush a half-baked dpkg. Now it becomes a standard. Reeks to me of Microsoft Windows-like storyline.

Why not just port and use dkpg, apt and associated tools? They were all created to be portable, and are indeed already used in http://fink.sf.net./, http://debian-cygwin.sf.net./ and the like.

Someone is still trying to get off with RPM?

[moro_666]

Come on people. You can't just say let's replace
dpkg with rpm on debian ... at first debian's
format is better (don't wanna chat over it here,
just read some damn faq's at first, ok?)
The second thing is , what good is an rpm,
if you still need to build it for all the platforms?
I agree that there should be an i386 rpm available,
cause there are n users on the net still using
some kind of red hat or smth like that.
But more wise would be put out the src packages
and let the clients build it.
The first thing is that it aint the developers
problem to compile he's app for Mr X on system
Mr Y, let him do it. I've been in this mess once
but then i turned to java,tcl and python just
because i don't wanna make my projects unpopular
because of my laziness.
If somone want's to contribute to the free world
let him compile it and put it up beside the src
packages.
Still i like dpkg, the dependicies it has and
the way it's built.
I moved to debian, cause it's easier to handle.
I can directly mail to the package builders and
ask for updates etc.
Some of you might find that rpm -i
is good enough for you, but for me it aint.
Debian rocks. and so does dpkg.
If you wanna use rpm and don't know exactly what
this does to your machine it's fine with me, but
i'll stay on dpkg and are NEVER gonna go back to
i386.rpm.

With Love,
From Dorpat.

Stupid, stupid rat things!

[nagora]

Is it just me or is the fact that this thing even supports binary RPM's self-defeating? How is that going to be cross-platform??

Mind you, using the RPM system is pretty self-defeating too.

TWW