rpm - Red Hat Package Manager for OS/2

rpm - Red Hat Package Manager version 3.0.6 for OS/2

rpm is a powerful package manager, which can be used to build, install, query, verify, update, and uninstall individual software packages. A package consists of an archive of files, and package information, including name, version, and description.

To use RPM package for linux distributions and to make RPM for OS/2 softwares, I ported rpm to OS/2.

Mannual for OS/2 user
rpm306x1.zip [1.15 Mb] (Feb-19-2001
This package contains OS/2 executables, OS/2 patch , , original mannuals, and required libraries and DLLs.

NEWS

Feb-19-2001 : Important bug, compression with zlib/bzlib failed, has been fixed
You can download rpm306x1.zip from hobbes
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/archiver/rpm306x1.zip
or ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/rpm306x1.zip
This version (3.0.6) of RPM is available for RPM packages created by RPM version 4.0, which you will find in RedHat Linux 7.0 or later.

History of OS/2 port

Patch level 11: 2001/2/19
   Bug fix: created binary/source rpm package was __not__ compressed
            by zlib or bzlib. 

Patch level 10: 2001/1/25
    Bug fix: Handling of rpm package via HTTP/FTP failed
    
Patch level 9: 2000/11/4
   Thanks to Shigeru MIYATA's  `ldd.exe', 
   `find-provedes' script works finer. 

Patch level 8: 2000/10/28
   Updated version to 3.0.6 -- RPM binary package created by RPM 4.0 can be 
                               processed (RedHat Linux 7.0 or later). 
                               
   `configure' script has been modified to work fine.
   Fixed bugs
     - RPM accepts backslush('\') for directory separator. 
     - Signing with PGP 5.0i for OS/2 BETA 5 is now available. 

Patch level 7: 2000/9/28 -- not uploaded in web page
   Updated version from 3.0.3 to 3.0.4

Patch level 6: 2000/4/16
    All executable are linked with GNU intl library staticaly; do not depend 
    on `intl_d.dll'. 

Patch level 5: 1999/10/20
   Updated version from 3.0.2 to 3.0.6
   ``rpm --pipe "COMMAND -option" .. '' works
   Signing by GNU gpg version 0.9.9 is successful with minor limitation
   (See `PROBLEMS.os2')

Patch level 4: 1999/8/5
   Updated version from 2.5.6 to 3.0.2
   Fixed bugs
      Makeing RPM package was failed when command "rpm -b* FOO.spec" was
       executed in a drive different from a BUILD drive.

Patch level 3: 1999/6/26
   Updated version from 2.5.5 to 2.5.6
   Fixed bugs
     Could not install binary RPM made by OS/2 ported `rpm.exe'

   Header dump to standard output is now TEXT mode
     dumpdb.exe, dump.exe

   Makefiles are modified to recieve `prefix=' not `installprefix'

Patch level 2: 1999/6/17
   Linked with GNU gettext 0.10.35
      For message 11 languages including Japanese are avilable.

Patch level 1: 1999/5/19

   Only English Messages are available

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OS/2 ported softwares