Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 6th Jan 2008 07:41 UTC, submitted by Sabz
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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Looks like xar is more an alternative to formats like zip and tar+gz, rather than a package format in itself.
Looks like RPM5 uses xar and defines a new RPM-like packaging format on top of it. Not sure what problem that's intended to solve.