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Heirloom Project
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The Heirloom Packaging ToolsThe Heirloom Packaging Tools are Linux ports of the SVR4 application packaging tools, as released by Sun as part of OpenSolaris. Currently, there exists no Linux distribution which bases its package management on these tools. Nevertheless, they are useful for evaluation purposes. If run in interactive mode, “pkgadd” will ask for confirmation before overwriting existing files, so it is principally possible to use these tools in addition to another packaging system. Online manual pages for depend, installf, pkgadd, pkgask, pkgchk, pkginfo, pkginfo (file format), pkgmap, pkgmk, pkgparam, pkgproto, pkgrm, pkgtrans, prototype, and removef are available. For installation instructions, see the README. The list of CHANGES made since the first release. New releases of this project are announced on freshmeat.net. You can use their subscription service to get an email when a new version is available. Download the source codeBrowse the CVS repository The most recent results of development are sometimes made available in the public CVS repository. Use $ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@heirloom.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/heirloom \ login CVS password:<just type return> $ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@heirloom.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/heirloom \ co -P heirloom-pkgtoolsto retrieve a copy. Follow these instructions for more information. If you want to report a problem, please look at the CHANGES file in CVS to see if it has already been resolved, and if so, try if the fix works for you. Do not use the code from CVS unless you have a special reason to do so. It may be incorrect, not well tested, and might not even compile. |