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#use "page.inc" page=news
Latest News
Latest News
New in OpenPKG 2.5
- Portable across major Unix flavors.
- Available for the supported platforms:
FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE, Debian GNU/Linux 3.1, RedHat Fedora Core 4,
FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE, FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE, NetBSD 2.0.2, RedHat
Enterprise Linux 4, Sun Solaris 10, Sun Solaris 9, Novell
OpenSUSE Linux 10
- Available for the tentative platforms:
FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE, FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT, Gentoo Linux 1.12.0,
Mandriva 10.2
- Available for the obsolete platforms:
FreeBSD 4.11-SOLID, Novell/SUSE Linux 9.3 Professional, Sun
Solaris 8
- Known to work as well under the platforms:
IBM AIX 5.1 and HP HP-UX 11.11
- All packages were upgraded to their latest vendor versions as of 16-Oct-2005.
- Increased release class packages from 562 (in OpenPKG 2.4) to now 579
- Many packaging bugfixes and vendor source code portations
- Sources of 579 CORE+BASE+PLUS packages released.
- Binaries of CORE+BASE class packages provided for supported platforms.
- Binaries of CORE class packages provided for tentative platforms.
- Easy installation, updating and deinstallation of packages.
- Bundled with useful and secure package preconfigurations.
- Includes an abstracted and powerful run-command facility.
- Virtual hosting through multiple instances on a single system.
- Proxy packages for reusing packages across instances.
- Build time package variations for maximum flexibility.
- Foundation to build encapsulated and self contained environments.
New in OpenPKG 2.4
- Portable across major Unix flavors.
- Available for the supported platforms:
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1, FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE, NetBSD 2.0.2, RedHat
Fedora Core 3, SuSE Linux 9.3, Sun Solaris 9, and Sun Solaris 10
- Available for the tentative platforms:
FreeBSD 6.0, Gentoo Linux 1.6.12, and Mandriva Linux 10.2
- Available for the obsolete platforms:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, Sun Solaris 8 and FreeBSD 4.11
- Known to work as well under the platforms:
IBM AIX 5.1, HP HP-UX 11.11 and MacOS X 10.3
- All packages were upgraded to their latest vendor versions as of 18-Jun-2005.
- Increased release class packages from 545 (in OpenPKG 2.3) to now 562
- Many packaging bugfixes and vendor source code portations
- Sources of 562 CORE+BASE+PLUS packages released.
- Binaries of CORE+BASE class packages provided for supported platforms.
- Binaries of CORE class packages provided for tentative platforms.
- Easy installation, updating and deinstallation of packages.
- Bundled with useful and secure package preconfigurations.
- Includes an abstracted and powerful run-command facility.
- Virtual hosting through multiple instances on a single system.
- Proxy packages for reusing packages across instances.
- Build time package variations for maximum flexibility.
- Foundation to build encapsulated and self contained environments.
New in OpenPKG 2.3
- Portable across major Unix flavors.
- Available for the supported platforms:
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0, FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE, FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE,
Gentoo Linux 1.6.9, RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 ES, RedHat Fedora
Core 3, SuSE Linux 9.2, SuSE Enterprise Linux 9.0, Sun Solaris 8, Sun Solaris 9,
and Sun Solaris 10
- Already available for the tentative platforms:
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1-pre, HP UX 11.11, Mandrake Linux 10.1,
NetBSD 2.0, Apple MacOS X 10.3.
- All packages were upgraded to their latest vendor versions as of 24-Feb-2005.
- Increased release class packages from 528 (in OpenPKG 2.2) to now 545
- Many packaging bugfixes and vendor source code portations
- Sources of 545 CORE+BASE+PLUS packages released.
- Binaries of CORE+BASE class packages provided for supported platforms.
- Binaries of CORE class packages provided for all platforms.
- Easy installation, updating and deinstallation of packages.
- Bundled with useful and secure package preconfigurations.
- Includes an abstracted and powerful run-command facility.
- Virtual hosting through multiple instances on a single system.
- Proxy packages for reusing packages across instances.
- Build-time package variations for maximum flexibility.
- Foundation to build encapsulated and self-contained environments.
New in OpenPKG 2.2
- Portable across major Unix flavors.
- Available for the supported platforms:
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0, FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE, FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT, Gentoo Linux 1.5.3, RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 ES, RedHat Fedora Core 2, SuSE Linux 9.1, Sun Solaris 8, Sun Solaris 9 (Forte-C), Sun Solaris 9/x86
RedHat Fedora Core 2, SuSE Linux 9.1, Sun Solaris 8 and 9
- Already available for the tentative platforms:
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1-pre, HP UX 11.11, Mandrake Linux 10, NetBSD 1.6.2, Sun Solaris 10/x86, Sun Solaris 10
- Still available for the obsoleted platforms:
SuSE Linux 9.0, Sun Solaris 2.6
- All packages were upgraded to their latest vendor versions as of 12-Oct-2004.
- Increased release class packages from 495 (in OpenPKG 2.1) to now 528
- Many packaging bugfixes and vendor source code portations
- Sources of 528 CORE+BASE+PLUS packages released.
- Binaries of CORE+BASE class packages provided for supported platforms.
- Binaries of CORE class packages provided for all platforms.
- Easy installation, updating and deinstallation of packages.
- Bundled with useful and secure package preconfigurations.
- Includes an abstracted and powerful run-command facility.
- Virtual hosting through multiple instances on a single system.
- Proxy packages for reusing packages across instances.
- Build-time package variations for maximum flexibility.
- Foundation to build encapsulated and self-contained environments.
New in OpenPKG 2.1
- Available for the supported platforms:
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0, FreeBSD 4.10/5.2, RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 ES,
RedHat Fedora Core 2, SuSE Linux 9.1, Sun Solaris 8 and 9
- Already available for the tentative platforms:
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1-pre, FreeBSD 5.2, Gentoo Linux 1.4.16, HP UX
11.11, Mandrake Linux 10, NetBSD 1.6.2, Sun Solaris 10
- Still available for the obsoleted platforms:
RedHat Linux 9, SuSE Linux 9.0, Sun Solaris 2.6
- openpkg-tools added
- All packages were upgraded to their latest vendor versions as of 14-Jul-2004.
- Increased release class packages from 473 (in OpenPKG 2.0) to now 495
- Many packaging bugfixes and vendor source code portations
- Sources of 495 CORE+BASE+PLUS packages released.
- Binaries of CORE+BASE class packages provided for supported platforms.
- Binaries of CORE class packages provided for all platforms.
New in OpenPKG 2.0
- Available for the supported platforms:
FreeBSD 4.9/5.2, Debian Linux 3.0, SuSE Linux 9.0,
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, Red Hat Fedora Core 1
and Solaris 8 and 9.
- Already available for the tentative platforms:
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1, Gentoo Linux 1.4.3, Sun Solaris 10.
- Still available for the obsoleted platforms:
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2, Red Hat Linux 9, SuSE Linux 8.2, and Sun Solaris 2.6.
- RPM 4.2.1 contributes over three years of development.
- concurrent package database operations and transactional safety.
- Platform identification via our GNU shtool 2.0's new 'platform' command.
- Instance identification via our OSSP uuid toolkit.
- Class: header, %track and %test section.
- Repackage option to prepare for undo of erase.
- More accurate removal of all temporary build files.
- Short circuiting now available when building binaries.
- Source dependencies not required when rolling a SRPM.
- Upgraded to Perl 5.8.3 and completely worked off Perl module packaging thorough perl-openpkg
- Completely worked off Run-Command (RC) facility now also for PLUS and EVAL class packages.
- All packages were upgraded to their latest vendor versions as of 24-Feb-2004.
- Increased release class packages from 400 (in OpenPKG 1.3) to now 473
- Thousands of packaging bugfixes and vendor source code portations
- Sources of 473 CORE+BASE+PLUS packages released.
- Binaries of CORE+BASE class packages provided for supported platforms.
- Binaries of CORE class packages provided for all platforms.
New in OpenPKG 1.3
- Ix86: FreeBSD 4.8/5.1, Debian GNU/Linux 2.2/3.0, RedHat GNU/Linux 9, SuSE GNU/Linux 8.2, Sun Solaris 9
- Sparc64: Sun Solaris 8, Sun Solaris 9, Sun Solaris 2.6
- Alpha: FreeBSD 5.1
- Extended the release size to 400 packages
- Fully based on GCC 3.3
- Bundled with useful and more secure package preconfigurations.
- All daemons with optional OSSP fsl (fake syslog library) support, enabled by default
- Run-time tested log file rotation
- Completely worked off Run-Command (RC) facility
- Improved rc stop, start, restart; new rc status scriptlets
- Improved daemon installation, upgrade and erase scriptlets
- Foundation to build encapsulated and self-contained environments.
- Quality enhancements by package "linting"
- Bootstrapping supports preexisting user/groups, relaxed system requirements
New in OpenPKG 1.2
- More and upgraded packages, now 361 total
- New %option support for build-time variations
- Fully reorganized and extended packaging of Perl
- OSSP fsl replaced old fakesyslog library for log redirection
- New openpkg-tool package for automatic instance upgrading
New in OpenPKG 1.1
- Command rpm --fetch now supports mirrors and backups
- Additional user accounts to support fine tuned permissions
- PAM package handles /etc/pam.conf and /etc/pam.d/
- Only openpkg and PAM ever touch system files
- Shared libraries remained in 1.0 have been removed
- All daemons can be disabled setting openpkg_runall=no
- The openpkg bootstrap package contains RPM libraries/headers
- Command rpm --makeproxy for proxy package support
- Sane build environment
- Finally rename prefix/web to prefix/pub
- Package variants using command line options
- Available and used options can be viewed using rpm queries
- Name change prefix/.../rpm/ became prefix/.../openpkg/
- PGP key was changed
- Package classification CORE, BASE and PLUS
- More and upgraded packages, now 274 total
- BugDB with web form and mailing list tracking
For upgrading, please pay attention to the release notes
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Newsflash
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Easy installation, updating and deinstallation of packages.
Bundled with useful and secure package preconfigurations.
Includes an abstracted and powerful run-command facility.
Virtual hosting through multiple instances on a single system.
Proxy packages for reusing packages across instances.
Build-time package variations for maximum flexibility.
Foundation to build encapsulated and self-contained environments.
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Easy installation, updating and deinstallation of packages.
Bundled with useful and secure package preconfigurations.
Includes an abstracted and powerful run-command facility.
Virtual hosting through multiple instances on a single system.
Proxy packages for reusing packages across instances.
Build-time package variations for maximum flexibility.
Foundation to build encapsulated and self-contained environments.
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Debian GNU/Linux 3.1, Gentoo Linux 1.4.3, Sun Solaris 10.
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rpm --fetch which now supports mirrors and backups
additional user accounts to support fine tuned permissions
PAM package handels /etc/pam.conf and /etc/pam.d/
only openpkg and PAM ever touch system files
shared libraries remained in 1.0 have been removed
all daemons can be disabled setting "openpkg_runall=no"
openpkg bootstrap package contains RPM libraries/headers
rpm --makeproxy support
sane build environment
finally rename /web to /pub
package variants using command line options
available and used options can be viewed using rpm queries
name change prefix/.../rpm became prefix/.../openpkg
PGP key was changed
package classification CORE, BASE and PLUS
more and upgraded packages, now 274 total
upgrading see openpkg-adm/upgrade.txt
bugdb with web form and mailing list tracking
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