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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Member since:2008-01-07
For details of what rpm-5.0 adds, try reading the rationale
for adoption of rpm-5.0 by OpenPKG at
http://trainofthoughts.org/blog/2008/01/06/rpm5-vs-rpm/
Member since:
2007-07-23
Since Linus forked it
I think the tongue in cheek part was missed by 1 or 2 people here. Plus 1, back to 0.
On topic: The Red Hat/Fedora/SuSE/Mandriva kind of RPM has never failed us. I am not sure if I fully understand the benefits of this RPM5, but if it adds something, why not?
Cheers.