Mandriva switches to RPM5! / Mandriva si converte al RPM5!

[NicCo]

Mandriva si converte al RPM5! (Articolo in Italiano)


Mandriva switches to RPM 5.x and some funky fresh news!
Source: http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20101122#news

Mandriva switches to RPM5

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."

RPM 4 (official web)
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/

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 2008-01-05
RPM Package Manager (RPM) version 5.0.0 released.

Some features:
http://rpm5.org/pressrelease.php


About the RPM5 fork
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/ar ... kaging.htm

As 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.

Wikipedia
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

[NicCo]

Mandriva si converte al formato RPM5!

Una grande Notizia per Mandriva Linux , è certamente il cambio dal formato RPM 4.x al RPM5, che costituisce di certo una scelta coraggiosa ed innovativa!

Ricordo che l'RPM5 è una sorta di fork, riscritto daccapo del formato inizialmente creato e supportato da RedHat/ Fedora, che non ha voluto proprio saperne di passare al nuovo formato, continuando a sviluppare il vecchio 4.x.

Da Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPM_Package_Manager

RPM.org
Usato da Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Novell's openSUSE e SUSE Linux Enterprise, Mandriva e CentOS.

RPM v5
Il mantainer di RPM dal 1999, Jeff Johnson, ha continuato gli sforzi di sviluppo insieme con i partecipanti da altre distribuzioni Il formato RPM versione 5 è stato rilasciato nel Maggio 2007.
Usato da distribuzioni quali Alt Linux, ArkLinux, Unity Linux e cAos Linux, ed anche dal "OpenPKG project" che provvede a pacchetti per altre comuni piattaforme UNIX

Tra pochi giorni in Cooker atterrerà RPM5, in quanto tutto il principale codice necessario, soprattutto il PERL è stato già convertito:

Adesso toccherà riconvertire e riadattare tutti i pacchetti e ricompilarli, si prospetta moltissimo entusiasmante lavoro in Cooker!

Ciao,
NicCo

[mykol]

vantaggi di RPM5 ?

[NicCo]

vantaggi di RPM5 ?

Nella prima parte, in inglese, do il link a:

About the RPM5 fork
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/ar ... kaging.htm

Tra alcune spiegazioni puramente tecniche, anche se molto interessanti possiamo leggere anche:

As 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.

Una veloce traduzione in italiano:

Come parte della riscrittura gli sviluppatori di RPM5 hanno posto particolare attenzione ai problemi di scarsa performance, e come risultato dei loro sforzi, Johnson afferma che il nuovo formato RPM5 è circa 10 volte più veloce del suo predecessore RPM 4.x, soprattutto nelle query ai pacchetti

Ciao,
NicCo