Mandriva switches to RPM 5.x and some funky fresh news!
Source: http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20101122#news
Mandriva switches to RPM5
RPM 4 (official web)A quick update on Mandriva Linux, coming from a blog post by Per Øyvind Karlsen. The topics mentioned include, new "Cooker" manager, increased activity in Mandriva's development branch, and the upcoming switch to RPM 5.x:" The most interesting and controversial thing is taking over RPM maintenance and now working on preparing the final bits and pieces in place for getting some of the biggest and neatest changes with regards to RPM in Mandriva since probably forever. A lot of new things will now come now that we're not only maintaining obsolete versions of RPM with no interaction and participation in upstream, but we actually help drive it and will be able to satisfy more user requests, distro interest, credibility and more. In the end, I think we will end up being able to be the awesome alternative in the forked world. I expect to upload a new release of RPM 5.x to main/testing by tomorrow, hopefully ironing out the last remaining rpmdb conversion issues, then porting the few remaining related packages (perl-URPM has already been rewritten to pure RPM 5.x native API, with many improvements."
http://www.rpm.org/
# 2007-05-26: released RPM version 4.5-0.3
from RPM 4.x branch has born new RPM 5.x format
# 2007-05-29: official launch of rpm5.org with new roadmap
RPM 5 (official web)
http://rpm5.org/
Some features:FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 2008-01-05
RPM Package Manager (RPM) version 5.0.0 released.
http://rpm5.org/pressrelease.php
About the RPM5 fork
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/ar ... kaging.htm
WikipediaAs part of the rewrite the rpm5.org developers took aim at what Johnson referred to as 'ugly performance flaws'. As a result of their efforts, Johnson claimed that RPM 5 is ten times faster than its RPM 4.x predecessors when it comes to querying packages.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPM_Package_Manager
Forks
As of June 2010, there are two versions of RPM in development — one led by the Fedora Project and Red Hat, and the other by a separate group led by a previous maintainer of RPM, a former employee of Red Hat. Both projects currently call themselves the "official" version of RPM.
RPM.org
The rpm.org community's first major code revision was in July 2007; version 4.8 was released in January 2010.
This version is used by distributions such as Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Novell's openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise, Mandriva and CentOS.
RPM v5
The RPM maintainer since 1999, Jeff Johnson, continued development efforts together with participants from several other distributions. RPM version 5 was released in May 2007.
This version is used by distributions such as Alt Linux, ArkLinux, Unity Linux and cAos Linux, and also by the OpenPKG project which provides packages for other common UNIX-platforms.
bye,NicCo