The main difference to the most known package management systems (apt, rpm) is version control ( http://www.linux.com/articles/53266 ). > I've readed the article and I haven't realized what is the version control > advantage over the most known solutions, > would you please give us a further > explanation here? :-) You are fast reader Alberto :) I have no experience with this technology, just read about rPath solutions. Some other products, which we use, are starting to use this technology (*) and I was interested what is all about. Core product for their package management is conary http://www.rpath.com/technology/conary.html Sections "Shadows" and "Changesets" shold clarify advantages of their approach. As I understand, this mix of package management and version control give to the release managers/administrators/users much better control, especially for customized installations. In my praxis, majority of our ubuntu/apt installations are customized (custom kernel, additional packages, etc). And all of these changes are manually maintained. Yes, there is possibility to maintain these packages in local apt repositories. But in many cases it is not easy job. Conary (as much as I understood their concept) addresses these problems much better then apt/rpm systems. Their package management concept is analogous to the distributed software revision systems - you can have local and remote branches, and conary take into account your local changes when updates system. But again: those are conclusions from a person with zero experience with rpath/conary solutions. Regards, Ernad (*) zimbra - http://www.rpath.com/corp/images/stories/Collateral/zimbra_software_appliance_whitepaper.pdf, digium.com/asterisk - http://www.rpath.org/rbuilder/project/asterisk/
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