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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 gilboa on Sun 6th Jan 2008 14:45 UTC in reply to "RE: Real deal?"

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The full story:
http://lwn.net/Articles/196523/

- Gilboa

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RE[3]: Real deal?

by marcusoverhagen on Mon 7th Jan 2008 11:37 in reply to "RE[2]: Real deal?"

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2005-08-20

Different side of the story: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2006/6/5/101431/9311

While I seriously doubt that Jeff wrote that, it's still a funny read.

Marcus

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RE[4]: Real deal?

by gilboa on Mon 7th Jan 2008 12:37 in reply to "RE[3]: Real deal?"

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... I found it far less funny.
Sadly enough his current employer doesn't have access to this blog.

- Gilboa

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RE[4]: Real deal?

by Soulbender on Mon 7th Jan 2008 13:55 in reply to "RE[3]: Real deal?"

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2005-08-18

Heh. Is Jeff Johnson an alter ago for Tuomo Valkonen?

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RE[3]: Real deal?

by sorpigal on Mon 7th Jan 2008 18:51 in reply to "RE[2]: Real deal?"

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2005-11-02

This is very funny. I just tried this with a Debian box that has read only /usr and... aptitude update worked, install failed, remove failed. No package db inconsistencies were introduced. Installing and removing after /usr was remount,rw worked normally.

Gotta love RPM!

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