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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. Re:Time loss by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I sincerely hope this gets moderated down as flamebait.

  2. Re:Sounds neat by Ranger+Rick · · Score: 1, Redundant

    nice try... apt works with RPM. The comparison is rpm <-> dpkg, not rpm <-> apt. In the correct comparison, they're almost equivalent.

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  3. the essential question: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Will it run on Mac OS X ?!?

  4. we already have a package system on FreeBSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    and our package system is much simpler and cleaner than RPM. Not to mention our ports system. We don't really need the RPM cruft. Please realize, RPM is a shitty format.