About:
swpkg is a collection of tools which allow a system administrator to build, install, and maintain software packages on a system. It is based on a fairly simple philosophy intended to simplify the management of third party software and their inter-dependencies.

Author:
Christophe Kalt <swpkg [at] taranis [dot] org> [contact developer]

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Homepage:
http://web.taranis.org/swpkg/
Tar/GZ:
http://web.taranis.org/swpkg/download.html

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Environment]		Console (Text Based)
[Intended Audience]		System Administrators
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		POSIX
[Programming Language]		C
[Topic]		System :: Archiving :: Packaging, System :: Systems Administration

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	0.51	22-Dec-2007	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Comments

[»] encap compatability
by John Meacham - Nov 29th 2001 16:26:13

http://encap.cso.uiuc.edu/

you should look into making your software compatable with the encap package management system, seeing as how similar your schemes are.

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[»] Re: encap compatability
by Christophe Kalt - Dec 28th 2001 17:36:02


> you should look into making your
> software compatible with the encap
> package management system, seeing as how
> similar your schemes are.
The short answer to this is that while similar, encap and swpkg are also quite different, to a point that makes compatibility difficult to achieve (if at all possible) and somewhat pointless.

I knew of encap when i started writing swpkg (and it is mentioned in the "Related Work" page). It did not stop me because i also knew then that i would never be satisfied with it.

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