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OpenPKG 1.0 Released

Posted by michael on from the dependencies dept.

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."

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  1. Microsoft is moving to MSI by yerricde · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The one true package format: setup.exe

    I assume you refer to the standard name of a Windows installer program. Those may become obsolete, as Microsoft and other vendors shift to .msi packages that use the Windows Installer.

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  2. Uses separate RPM repository, no NLS by bojolais · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I notice that an openpkg-installed package populates their own RPM database, rather than using one that may already be on the system. While this may be due to the fact that they need to store additional information that a default RPM4 database doesn't allow for, it would seem to be a horrible inconvenience to maintain two separate RPM databases... even if one allowed you more cross-platform control.

    Also, I thought it interesting that they favor English as the only language used on Unix machines, and chose not to include NLS support in OpenPKG. And they're not even Americans!

  3. Re:Time loss by GauteL · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is not very relevant anymore. Almost all distributions and projects have chosen RPM, and there really isn't much point in remaking the decision.

    Besides apt already exists for RPM, and works fine. Since my favourite mirror got APT-enabled I've used it almost exclusively.

    I would like to start seeing *.lsb.rpm soon, guaranteed to work on all lsb-compliant distributions. As long as they are competently created they should be debianizable through alien .