RPM -- plans, goals, etc. [LWN.net]

RPM -- plans, goals, etc.

Posted Dec 16, 2006 13:30 UTC (Sat) by arekm (subscriber, #4846)
Parent article: RPM -- plans, goals, etc.

,,Job #1 is to take the current RPM codebase and clean it up'' - this needs clarification, rpm.org takes old codebase (4.4.2) that is commonly used NOT current rpm codebase (4.4.7).

Primary codebase can be found on http://wraptastic.org/, mailing list on: http://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/rpm-devel

Basicaly we have now 2 forks of rpm: JBJ (rpm author) on wraptastic and fedora people (well, real participant list seems to be a secret) on rpm.org.

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RPM -- plans, goals, etc.

Posted Dec 16, 2006 17:26 UTC (Sat) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link]

Actually you have 4 or more forks:

Red Hat/Fedora RPM
Wraptastic (JBJ)
SuSE
Mandriva
(even Turbolinux has(had?) patches that do things )

Hopefully they will get it down to 2 forks :).

RPM -- plans, goals, etc.

Posted Dec 16, 2006 22:39 UTC (Sat) by arekm (subscriber, #4846) [Link]

Using this logic we have the same number of rpm forks as number of linux ditributions that have rpm. Each linux distro has own patches for rpm :)