Unifying Linux Package Management

Job Diogenes Ribeiro Borges writes "The Smart Package Manager is an intelligent tool that works on the 'dependency hell' of software upgrading and installation on linux. Works with all major distributions (APT, APT-RPM, YUM, URPMI, etc), supporting multiple sources and technologies concurrently. Yes, you could install from multiple sources, from deb, rpm, tgz at same time! Smart Package Manager is being developed by Conectiva and is the tool that makes the Magic of CrossPlatform package management, behind the recently announced 'Four Linux Vendors Agree On An LSB Implementation.' You can get screenshots here (portuguese texts) and a README here."

Comments

Oh, dandy

[krog]

Combining the weaknesses of five different package managers will surely alleviate "dependency hell."

I'll be over here, playing nethack on my NetBSD box and giggling.

Re:Oh, dandy

[whyne]

I don't understand all this fuss is about. cvsup -g -L 2 /usr/ports-supfile cd /usr/ports/xxx/xxx make install clean there is always pkg_add -r xxx.xxx.xxx or in a pinch : portsdb -Uu portversion -l "" portupgrade -arR with the occasional pkgdb -fu

Re:Lets start the fighting now.

[aclarke]

Well when *I* was in school, I had to run Netscape on HP/UX, displayed on my local X Server running on a Windows 3.1 box. Displayed over a 2400 baud modem. Uphill. Both ways. In the rain.

With NOBODY to hold my hands. Because the life of the geek is a lonely life.