FYI: conary (a distributed software management system)

Folks - the [very new] Conary system, by some ex-Red Hat
people, strikes me as Arusha-compatible in its thinking, and
laden with Good Ideas.  I'll include the Freshmeat
announcement below; also, there's a good intro at lwn.net,
though it may be a few more days before it comes out of
"subscriber-only" purgatory.

Will

From: [email protected]
Subject: Conary 0.2  - A distributed software management system.
Newsgroups: fm.announce
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 20:48:57 +0000 (UTC)

Conary 0.2  
  by Michael K. Johnson (http://freshmeat.net/~johnsonm/)
  Wed, Jul 28th 2004 13:48 

About:
Conary is a distributed software management system for Linux distributions.
It replaces traditional package management solutions (such as RPM and dpkg)
with one designed to enable loose collaboration across the Internet. It
enables sets of distributed and loosely connected repositories to define
the components which are installed on a Linux system. Rather then having a
full distribution come from a single vendor, it allows administrators and
developers to branch a distribution, keeping the pieces which fit their
environment while grabbing components from other repositories across the
Internet. 

Changes:
New repository wire protocol, bug fixes 

Release focus: Initial freshmeat announcement 
      License: Common Public License 
  Project URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/conary/

            Homepage: http://freshmeat.net/redir/conary/52115/url_homepage/technology
             Tar/BZ2: http://freshmeat.net/redir/conary/52115/url_bz2/conary-0.2.tar.bz2
   CVS tree (cvsweb): http://freshmeat.net/redir/conary/52115/url_cvs/cvs.specifixinc.com
Mailing list archive: http://freshmeat.net/redir/conary/52115/url_list/conary-list


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