Conary: An innovative second-generation package manager

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Mar 6, 2007 8:54 AM EDT
Linux.com; By Bruce Byfield
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rPath's Conary is a second-generation package manager. Considering that Erik Troan, rPath's CTO and co-founder, was one of the original authors of the RPM package format, some might be tempted to view Conary as an effort to do things right the second time around -- nor is that view far from wrong. In its design, Conary is a streamlined version of dpkg or RPM with Yum in which all the utilities of those package managers are combined in a single command and combined with version control to meet the demands of a modern distribution.

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