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Encyclopedia > Conary (package manager)

Conary is a free software package management system created by rPath Inc and distributed under the terms of the Common Public License.[1]. It focuses on installing packages through automated dependency resolution against distributed online repositories, and providing a concise and easy-to-use Python-based description language to specify how to build a package. It is used by Foresight Linux and rPath Linux. This article is about free software as used in the sociopolitical free software movement; for non-free software distributed without charge, see freeware. ... Illustration of a package management system being used to download new software. ... For information on relative paths in dynamic linking, please see rpath (linking) The correct title of this article is rPath. ... The CPL (Common Public License) is a free software / open-source software license published by IBM. Its license terms have been approved by the Open Source Initiative and Free Software Foundation. ... A software repository is a storage location from which software packages may be be retrieved and installed on a computer. ... Python is an interpreted, interactive programming language created by Guido van Rossum in 1990, originally as a scripting language for Amoeba OS capable of making system calls. ... Foresight Desktop Linux is a GNU/Linux distribution of free and non-free software. ... For information on relative paths in dynamic linking, please see rpath (linking) The correct title of this article is rPath. ...


Conary updates only those specific files in packages which need to be updated; this behavior minimizes bandwidth and time requirements for updating software packages.


See also

Free software Portal

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External links

  • Conary page on the rPath Wiki

References

  1. ^ Download location of source code; each archive contains a "LICENSE" file which contains the Common Public License.

 
 

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