conary - package management and maintenance?

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Mon Mar 17 15:53:07 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 16:31 +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> I recently encountered Conary[0] and initially thought of it as
> a package installation manager, but it turns out that it also
> handles the other side, the package maintenance side.
> 
> 0. http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Conary
> 
> Which version control system does it use?
> 
> Does Conary address the vcs-pkg goal, which is to marry maintenance
> and version control, without requiring the entire distro to switch
> the package manager or package format?
> 
> Looking forward to any input...

Or even more fun, can we use conary on the vcs-pkg side without having
it on the package deployment side, that is can Debian use it to
produce .debs for consumption, can Fedora use it to produce rpms for
consumption, etc...

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
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