The RPM Package Manager also know as RPM is a powerful command line driven package management system capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying, and updating computer software packages.Each software package consists of an archive of files along with information about the package like its version, a description, and the like. There is also a related [...]
apt-zeroconf is a distributed apt-cacher for local networks.
Concept
When running more than one Debian box in a LAN with slow internet access the most often used solution to prevent downloading the same Debian package twice is running apt-cacher or the like on one single machine, a centralized server.
The problem with this solution is, that every machine [...]
Gem to rpm converter creates an RPM spec file from a Ruby gem. The project uses the gem metadata to fill out most of the information needed for building an RPM containing the gem.
Usage:
Run ‘gem2rpm –help’ for options
At its simplest, download a gem (let’s call that file GEM) and run
gem2rpm $GEM
This will print an rpm [...]
Pexpect is a Python Expect-like module. Pexpect project spawns child applications, controls them, and responds to expected patterns in their output. It can be used for automating interactive applications such as ssh, ftp, passwd, telnet, etc.
It can be used to automate setup scripts for duplicating software package installations on different servers. It can be used [...]
rsync is a replacement for rcp (and scp) that has many more features. It uses the “rsync algorithm” which provides a very fast method for remote files into sync.
rsync project does this by sending just the differences in the files across the link, without requiring that both sets of files are present at one of [...]
Rubytree is a simple to use general purpose tree data structure implementation in Ruby.
It provides easy access methods for navigating the hierarchy, as well as for accessing the nodes. Rubytree project also provides ability to marshal the entire tree structure.
What’s New in This Release:
· A binary tree implementation has been added.
· There is a lot [...]
Rust is a drag and drop RPM creation utility and general purpose sandboxing toolkit. You can create RPM packages intuitively with the GUI. Rust may also be used to build RPMs for arbitrary source code, just by doing a ‘make install’ in the sandbox.
RedHat RPM mirror 1
RedHat SRPM mirror 1
Sources mirror 1 (tar.bz2)
Sources mirror 2
Nullsoft Scriptable Install System in short NSIS is a professional open-source tool for the development of Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore highly suitable for internet distribution.
An installer is not only the first experience of a user with your product, many software problems can also [...]
Vamos software allows computers to run software directly from the network, without installations. The software is stored on servers and is centrally maintained without the user’s effort or attention.
rootz is a new no install system that works differently. It mounts complete live systems over the web, and make them available locally. With rootz you can [...]
cdrtools (formerly cdrecord) creates home-burned CDs with a CDR/CDRW recorder. It works as a burn engine for several applications.
cdrtools supports CD recorders from many different vendors; all SCSI-3/mmc- and ATAPI/mmc-compliant drives should also work.
Supported features include IDE/ATAPI, parallel port, and SCSI drives, audio CDs, data CDs, and mixed CDs, full multi-session support, CDRWs (rewritable), TAO, [...]