Train of Thoughts

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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Unfortunately, there seems to be still great confusion about the “official” RPM. Although I’m strongly biased, let me tell you my personal point of view…
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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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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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The RPM 5 project team now entered 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/team.php. The first step towards RPM 5.0.0 (scheduled for release end of this year) is the release of RPM 5.0a1 today. Find it under the rpm5.org files area rpm5.org/files/rpm/rpm-5.0/.
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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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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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