RPM Package Manager (RPM) Version 5.0.0 Released Jan 7, 2008, 19 :45 UTC (5 Talkback[s]) (3556 reads)
"After seven months of comprehensive
development, the popular Unix software packaging tool RPM Package
Manager (RPM) was released as stable version 5.0.0. The relaunch of the
RPM project in spring 2007 and today's following availability of RPM 5
marks a major milestone for the previously rather Linux-centric RPM. RPM
now finally evolved into a fully cross-platform and reusable software
packaging tool.
"The Automake/Autoconf/Libtool-based build environment of RPM was
completely revamped from scratch and as one major result mostly all
third-party libraries now can be linked externally and in a very
flexible way..."
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