Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 6th Jan 2008 07:41 UTC, submitted by Sabz
General Development After seven months of comprehensive development, the popular Unix software packaging tool RPM Package Manager (RPM) was released as stable version 5.0.0. This version builds portably on a wide variety of Unix platforms and includes initial support for XAR as a package format, among other features.
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Real deal?
by handy on Sun 6th Jan 2008 11:18 UTC
handy
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2005-07-06

This is not the official rpm 5 right? If I remember correct it was somekind of fork? In other words will Redhat start using it?

Anyways RPM (with yum) is a rock-solid package system which never failed on us.

Edited 2008-01-06 11:33