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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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RE[2]: Real deal?

by IceCubed on Sun 6th Jan 2008 12:03 UTC in reply to "RE: Real deal?"

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2005-07-01

RE: Another question, what is exactly the XAR format?

Why xar is interesting
http://code.google.com/p/xar/wiki/whyxar

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RE[3]: Real deal?

by raboof on Sun 6th Jan 2008 22:08 in reply to "RE[2]: Real deal?"

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2005-07-24

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.

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