Ralf S. Engelschall writes “The OpenPKG project released
version 2.0 of their unique RPM-based cross-platform Unix software
packaging facility. OpenPKG 2.0 consists of 473 selected (from a
pool of 700) packages which include latest versions of popular Unix
software like Apache, Bash, BIND, GCC, INN, MySQL, OpenSSH, Perl,
Postfix, PostgreSQL, Samba, Squid, teTeX and Vim — all carefully
packaged for easy deployment on 16 different Unix platforms, including
FreeBSD 4.9/5.2, Debian GNU/Linux 2.2/3.0/3.1, Red Hat Linux 9, Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 3, Fedora Core 1, SuSE Linux 8.2/9.0, and Sun Solaris
2.6/8/9/10. Highlights in OpenPKG 2.0 are the upgrade to RPM 4.2.1,
custom RPM extensions for more complete packaging, new platform product
and technology identification, usage of UUIDs, etc.”
version 2.0 of their unique RPM-based cross-platform Unix software
packaging facility. OpenPKG 2.0 consists of 473 selected (from a
pool of 700) packages which include latest versions of popular Unix
software like Apache, Bash, BIND, GCC, INN, MySQL, OpenSSH, Perl,
Postfix, PostgreSQL, Samba, Squid, teTeX and Vim — all carefully
packaged for easy deployment on 16 different Unix platforms, including
FreeBSD 4.9/5.2, Debian GNU/Linux 2.2/3.0/3.1, Red Hat Linux 9, Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 3, Fedora Core 1, SuSE Linux 8.2/9.0, and Sun Solaris
2.6/8/9/10. Highlights in OpenPKG 2.0 are the upgrade to RPM 4.2.1,
custom RPM extensions for more complete packaging, new platform product
and technology identification, usage of UUIDs, etc.”
Link: openpkg.org
