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Ralf S. Engelschall's Train of Thoughts

RPM 5.1 releasedApril 14 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, [...]

CVS is not as bad as its evil reputation…January 27 2008

Many Open Source projects, including FreeBSD, OpenPKG, RPM5, etc., for historical reasons even in 2008 still use the old Concurrent Versions System (CVS) — a popular Version Control System (VCS) of the ‘90th. At its zenith, CVS was the ultimative king, as it really dwarfed the older RCS or even the ancient SCCS. CVS was revolutionary [...]

rpm5.org versus rpm.orgJanuary 6 2008

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… History: The First 10 Years RPM originally was the Red Hat Package Manager, as it was invented in 1996/1997 by the Red Hat employees Eric Troan and Marc Ewing. The Red Hat [...]

RPM Package Manager (RPM) version 5.0.0 releasedJanuary 5 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. I’m very happy about the recent evolution of RPM, as it especially provides our OpenPKG a lot new possibilities. Since [...]

Blind Alley of DataDecember 16 2007

I don’t know whether you once thought about the following interesting fact: many people in the IT are really exited about easy branching in version control, data replication for database/directory systems, hot-standby services in server computing, etc… But wouldn’t you really expect that those people actually better be excited about multi-master support for database/directory [...]