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Swpkg - Software packaging tools

'swpkg' is a collection of tools for building, installing, and maintaining software packages. It is based on a fairly simple philosophy intended to simplify the management of third party software and their inter-dependencies.

Each software package is installed in a different directory, and symbolic links are used to populate common directories (typically /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/sbin, ..) which are then referenced by users (in their PATH and so on). The directories where the software actually lives are never referenced directly by users. For most software packages, setup and installation is as straight forward as if you were installing them directly in /usr/local.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://web.taranis.org/swpkg/
Source tarballhttp://web.taranis.org/swpkg/dist/swpkg-11.tgz
Version 0.11 (stable) released on 2004-03-09
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation

User guide available in HTML format from http://web.taranis.org/swpkg/documentation.html#basic
Support contacts

Help List<swpkg@taranis.org>
Developer List<swpkg@taranis.org>
Bug List<swpkg@taranis.org>

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers

Related information

Interfacescommand line
Programsswln, swbuild, swdirs, swrecord, swperms and swinstall
Source languagesC, shell script

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2002-03-25
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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