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

Congratulations Ralf.

[bodin]

Let's just say that Ralf is the commited guy for standard packages.

http://www.openssl.org/
http://www.modssl.org/

To say a few.
He's the guy that wrote mod_rewrite back in the old days. Tough guy.

FreeBSD pkg_add

[Shooter6947]

How is this new system different/better than the FreeBSD pkg_add? When I want to download an install a precompiled binary I just type (as root)

pkg_add -r gnupg

for instance and the binary package gets automatically ftped down, unpacked, and the pieces installed to the correct locations. With thousands of FreeBSD ports already set up, why should I or anyone switch to this new system?

Congratulations, ichimunki

[MadAhab]

Congratulations, you just described the FreeBSD ports system.