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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RE: Another question, what is exactly the XAR format?
Why xar is interesting
http://code.google.com/p/xar/wiki/whyxar
Member since:2006-08-01
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> If I remember correct it was somekind of fork?
Jeff Johnson RPM : http://rpm5.org/ .
Red Hat/Fedora/SuSE/Mandriva RPM : http://www.rpm.org/ .
One of the reasons of Jeff Johnson fork :
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=119185
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The full story:
http://lwn.net/Articles/196523/
- Gilboa
Member since:2005-11-12
wow, reading through that bug was kind of painful. It is unfortunate that people respond in a work environment with nastiness. There is no need for that. Johnson makes a reasonable argument that typing 'yum update' should not leave your system in a fragmented state if only part of a package is installed. I would think transactional accounting would be a requirement for updating a system. It makes me relieved that I got out of the software industry. It is annoying when good ideas get blocked based on egos and bad middle management.
Edited 2008-01-06 16:05
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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