Yet another package manager

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Dec 23, 2004, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
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>Problem is, whether it's the rims or the rubber, the wheels we're
>running on ain't that great.  I have yet to really poke into APT yet
>(the rims, or package management infrastructure) but even it seems to
>have its difficulties in that the sources tend to be HTTP repositories.
>~  (does APT support FTP as well?)...

I would strongly recommend looking at the OpenPKG.org portable packaging
system to anybody who has to maintain a heterogeneous mix of *nix systems.
I started using it a couple of years ago when moving from Caldera to SuSE,
and now use it on Linux, FreeBSD, and (ducking) even on SCO OpenServer.
One of its biggest advantages is that it's totally independent of the
underlying distribution's packaging system so local modifications don't
break things like on-line updates.  I wrote the overview below for a
presentation I made to the Seattle Unix Group:

	http://www.libertysoft.org/openpkg/overview/

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Bill
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