At its 10th anniversary and after a period of uncertainty for the RPM community, together with a new roadmap towards version 5.0 the project environment of the popular Unix software packaging tool RPM Package Manager was relaunched under the domain rpm5.org by the newly formed RPM project team, further on lead by RPM's primary developer Jeff Johnson. The primary goals of RPM 5.0 are the additional support for the XML based archiving format XAR, an integrated package dependency resolver, further improved portability and extended cross-platform support. Note: Please note that rpm5 is a fork of the 'real' rpm project.
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Member since:2005-06-29
I too am puzzled by this. It seems that indeed http://www.rpm.org/ and http://www.rpm5.org/ are different teams, and the former seems not to be aware of the latter.
Does anyone know what's up with this?
Member since:2006-01-16
'I too am puzzled by this. It seems that indeed http://www.rpm.org/ and http://www.rpm5.org/ are different teams, and the former seems not to be aware of the latter.'
This is a fork of rpm, by the former maintain of rpm.
Member since:2005-07-02
@knuckles
Jeff Johnson was the lead developer of RPM while he worked at Redhat. He left Redhat and in order to kickstart development in his absence, Redhat launched http://www.rpm.org/ to encourage continued development of the project by the wider open source community.
It appears that in response to this initiative, Jeff has launched http://www.rpm5.org/ to continue his work on RPM since it appears that since he left Redhat, his upstream contributions to the project have been largely ignored by the main Linux Distros. Basically it's a fork.
Member since:2006-06-01
The lwn.net article casts a poor light on Mr. Johnson.
I got another impression; he was helpful and fast to respond e.g. here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=186411
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2006-08-25
The RPM community is supposed to be on www.rpm.org, not www.rpm5.org.
This article is quite informative: http://lwn.net/Articles/196523/
As is this announcement:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-December/m...
This looks like something else.