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."

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The one true package format

[Anonymous Coward]

setup.exe

but the real question

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will it fit up my ass?

Yet another package management system?

[svara]

Wouldn't it have been smarter to port an existing advanced package management system/format like .deb to other UNIX flavours rather than inventing yet another system? Isn't that some serious reinventing-the-wheel?

Why?

[Anonymous Coward]

Open Source is, at best, only useful for creating a toy operating system. At worst it is the kind of subversive force in America that Stalin only dreamed of creating.

There are "cells" reporting to unknown leaders that only go by names like "L33t_Kernal_Hax0r" that cannot be located - after all, "living in my momma's basement cause I have no real world skills to speak of" is not a true street address.

There is the Marxist concept of "give what you can, take what you need." Only, none of these people can give anything, excepting the few heroes of the revolution that have their own roach filled apartments and must give blow jobs in parks monthly to meet their rent. Yet, they all feel the need to take, take, take. MP3s? "We must have them! It is about freedom for the artists!!" Software? "We must have it for free! It will be good then!!" Movies? "Yes, we must have them for free!!!" Of course, the dirty secret all of these "give it to me free!!!" people are trying to hide is that they have no resources to actually acquire anything legitimate, due to their pathetic skill set and the fact that society has no use for them.

Society, in fact, had no use for them even during their formative years. That's why their lunch money was stolen. Darwin's law was trying to assert itself, but overprotectively indulgent parenting prevented such a thing from happening.

RPM sucks ass

[Anonymous Coward]

Seeing as how RPM is the most brain-dead package management system I've ever seen, I think I'll stick with BSD's ports system.

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From the faq:

[iomud]

Writing a new packaging tool from scratch was not an option, because it would have required too much time and it was not clear whether we would have been really more successful than others. Instead we picked the solution which provided for all(!) of our essential wishes a good or at least reasonable solution. The RedHat Package Manager (RPM) version 4 is not a perfect solution, but even with its drawbacks and pitfalls it fulfills the fundemental needs of OpenPKG.

I dont know about you but that doesnt really inspire a lot of confidence in me. Essentially this reads to me like they wanted to quickly extend an inferior package management system. *shrug*