rpm5.org launched

rpm5.org launched

Posted May 29, 2007 16:58 UTC (Tue) by mbottrell (guest, #43008)
Parent article: rpm5.org launched

But will the distros touch it?!

With all the craziness and rudeness that is Jeff Johnson.
I think it's more a case of him attempting to outshine RedHat after they parted ways... particularly since RPM.org was only recently announced that they were renewing it with input from the major RPM vendors (Suse, Redhat, Mandriva, etc).

Hopefully there is some cross sharing... I would rather see one version than a fork.

Seeing rpm4 came out in 2001... I can see RPM5 lasting for some time. :)

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rpm5.org launched

Posted May 29, 2007 17:45 UTC (Tue) by JoeBuck (guest, #2330) [Link]

If there are two forks, one supported by Red Hat/Fedora, Novell/SUSE, and Mandriva, and one supported by Jeff Johnson, it doesn't matter how the two compare feature-for-feature. What's going to matter is that one fork will work in the context of the distros that people actually use, and the other will be irrelevant.

rpm5.org launched

Posted May 29, 2007 20:51 UTC (Tue) by mmazur (guest, #42142) [Link] (1 responses)

For some clarification -- it's not just about Jeff. Open source projects
are about having an active *developer* community around them. And Jeff is
not the only one actually working on that tree. There are lots of other
people providing both minor and major changes. Do keep in mind, that for
quite some time there was no other public project, that actually did
active rpm development. RedHat, considering it's enterprise target, is
quite conservative in this regard. And yes, that's enough for rpm5 to
stay afloat.

As far as I know, the most well known project actually using Jeff's tree
is Mandriva. The second biggest distro would probably be PLD
(www.pld-linux.org). Other then that, there are at least a few other
minor distros + some other projects.

rpm5.org launched

Posted May 29, 2007 21:24 UTC (Tue) by emkey (guest, #144) [Link]

Is this the same guy who removed database locking from RPM at one point while working for RedHat? If so color me less than interested in RPM5.

rpm5.org launched

Posted May 30, 2007 9:26 UTC (Wed) by freggy (guest, #37477) [Link]

Mandriva did not follow Red Hat and SuSE but is already using the one from rpm5.org and will continue to do so. Looking at the rpm5 team, I'm even not so sure that the RH/Novell branch (which failed to publish a single release in 6 months) will be the leading one in the end.