RPM 5.1 released

Monday, April 14th, 2008

RPM Package Manager (RPM) version 5.1.0 was released today. RPM 5.1 is the second major release of RPM 5 and incorporates over 300 distinguished fixes and improvements which were made since the release of RPM 5.0 in January 2008.

Most notably, RPM 5.1.0 provides many additional macro and Lua scripting functionality (UUID generation, path resolution, text-processing, etc), supports initial path-to-repository expansions on the command line (“+N-V-R.A”), provides additional output format specifiers on querying (“:sqlescape”, “:utf8″, “:cdata”, etc), provides an RPM 4 compatibility C API, and additionally ships with new utilities (“rpmdigest”, “rpmgrep”, etc) and many more.

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RPM Package Manager (RPM) version 5.0.0 released

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

After seven months of comprehensive development, I’ve today branched RPM 5.0 in the rpm5.org CVS repository, rolled RPM 5.0.0 release tarball and announced the availability of this brand-new RPM version with an official press release.
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RPM 5.0 and OpenPKG in 2008

Saturday, December 15th, 2007

With the RPM 5 project team we are in the middle of the official release engineering phase for RPM 5.0. Details of the proposed release engineering roadmap for RPM 5.0 can be found under rpm5.org/roadmap.php. The latest step towards RPM 5.0.0 (scheduled for release in January 2008) is the release of RPM 5.0b2 today. Find it under the rpm5.org files area rpm5.org/files/rpm/rpm-5.0/.
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RPM 5: untwisted & portable

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

After 6 heavy man-weeks of development and about 500 resulting RSE commits later we reached a point in our relaunched rpm5.org project, where RPM 5 is finally building out-of-the-box on a larger set of Unix flavors, including BSD, GNU/Linux, Solaris, AIX and MacOS X.
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OpenPKG finally migrated from Apache 1.3 to 2.2

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

A tribute to Apache 1.3, who served all Web applications in OpenPKG for nearly 6(!) years now: the OpenPKG apache package was born with Apache 1.3 on 2001-09-18 and after 406(!) version-controlled revisions Apache 1.3.37 was finally replaced by Apache 2.2.4 on 2007-06-22 with CVS checkin 35737.
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RPM relaunched under rpm5.org

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

I recently provided a completely new infrastructure to Jeff Johnson’s RPM Package Manager project. The infrastructure is now online and reachable under the new domain rpm5.org. The RPM project was officially relaunched there together with a new development roadmap towards RPM 5.
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Tips & Tricks: How to Upgrade to OpenPKG Enterprise 1

Sunday, December 24th, 2006

By checking the OpenPKG Product Series & Branch Comparison Chart you certainly have observed that our absolute premium product is the OpenPKG Enterprise series and its E1.0-SOLID branch (aka OpenPKG Enterprise 1). It provides a rock-solid software distribution, the longest life-time of all branches, and especially the fully back-ported and hence backward-compatible security and bugfix updates. [more...]

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