UniPKG 0.6.5 review
DownloadUniPKG - Universal PacKaGe manager - is a modular package manager
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UniPKG - Universal PacKaGe manager - is a modular package manager. UniPKG contains support for RPM, DEB and slack's TGZ package format. In distant future, ArchLinux's package format is planned as well.
It doesn't depend on any of the distribution's tools - it's completely self-sufficient, formats such as cpio or tar were (re)implemented.
Note that the binaries for unipkg core, unipkg-trans (which allows migration of data among two backends), three package handlers (Deb, RPM and Slack) and five database backends (File, Directory, XML file, Debian r/o and Slack r/o) have in total only 160kB. The dependencies are only zlib and libc, optionally also libxml2-0 (unipkg-xmlfile backend) and sqlite3 (unipkg-sqlite backend).
UniPKG was carefully tested using Valgrind, to cut the chances of a memory leak or other improper memory handling.
UniPKG is licensed under the free GNU/GPLv2.
What's New in This Release:
A written archive API for handling CPIO, TAR, and AR archive formats. All package handlers have been rewritten to use this API.
An ArchLinux package handler has been added.
SUIG/SGID missing while unpacking has been fixed.
Preliminary LZMA support (Larhzu) has been added.
The RPM package handler has been completely rewritten.
Work has begun on netlib and UniGET.
There are various bugfixes.
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