The OpenPKG project released version 2.1 of their unique RPM-based cross-platform Unix software packaging facility.OpenPKG 2.1 consists of 495 selected (from a pool of 770) packages which include latest versions of popular Unix
software like Apache, Bash, BIND, GCC, INN, Mozilla, MySQL, OpenSSH, Perl, Postfix, PostgreSQL, Samba, Squid, teTeX and Vim — all carefully packaged for easy deployment on 21 different Unix platforms, including
FreeBSD 4.10/5.2, Debian GNU/Linux 3.0/3.1, Red Hat Linux 9, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, Fedora Core 2, SuSE Linux 9.0/9.1, and Sun Solaris 2.6/8/9/10. The major technical efforts for this release were spent on the porting of all packages to five additional Unix platforms, the necessary adjustments to packages required by GCC 3.4 and the consolidation and packaging of the developer tool chain.
Cross-platform packaging facility OpenPKG 2.1 released
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just get autopakage and openPKG together and you have a universal software distribution system.
well, the very first time i ve heard about openPKG, and dunno the differentiation between RPM and openPKG. a quick look on tutorial and i got a feel it s based from RPM//
Hmm, no I don’t think so! They are two completly different projects, aming for different users and goals.
While this OpenPKG is used for maintainers of several different UNIX machines, autopackage is used for ordinary users who just wants a nice and easy way to install third party applications on his/hers PC. (This is perhaps greatly simplified, but it’s my view of the projects)
Nothing would be gained by putting them together, at least in my humble opinion…
This comes from the openpkg site:
“the world of cross-platform RPM-based Unix software packaging”
IMO anything RPM can be no good. RPM was/is a bad implementation of a bright idea. Anything from portage system to deb packages is many dozen times more useful and usable.