As an unmeant side-effect of the restructuring end of 2005 (mainly
the introduction of the important but certainly sometimes little bit
bothering OpenPKG Registry) the entry barrier for OpenPKG users was
unnecessarily increased as older documentations no longer applied and
some packages from CURRENT ("openpkg-registry)" were needed to get
running with a RELEASE. We've now tried to finally resolve most of this:
1. We included the "openpkg register" command into the boostrap
package of CURRENT, merged this to OpenPKG 2.5 and published an
updated OpenPKG 2.5 bootstrap package (version 2.5.2) which now
includes both all recent bugfixes from CURRENT plus the "openpkg
register" and overloaded "openpkg rpm" commands. This way the
"openpkg-registry" package from CURRENT is no longer required and can
be deinstalled.
2. I've implemented a thin wrapper for "openpkg build" which is now
included in the bootstrap package. This way the tutorial (see below)
is much simpler, has less special cases and one can more easily get
started. Also, the older "openpkg install" command now correctly uses
the RDF files on the FTP server instead of doing a directory listing
internally. This way it also works again with the current download
policy.
3. The FTP Download service now allows anonymous downloading of at least
all CORE UPDate packages, too. This ensures that nobody has to
register just for quickly trying out OpenPKG 2.5 (including the above
bootstrap version 2.5.2) and the "openpkg build" command works
out-of-the-box for at least all the CORE packages.
4. A completely new Tutorial was written which tries to remove the
confusion by showing the current world order and hopefully allows
people to get started with OpenPKG more easily.
Yours,
Ralf S. Engelschall
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.engelschall.com
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