README

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   3 # Pakfire - The IPFire package management system                              #
   4 # Copyright (C) 2011 Pakfire development team                                 #
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  21 Pakfire is the package management system of the IPFire (http://www.ipfire.org)
  22 firewall distribution.
  23
  24 It is as well the buildsystem that is used to create the distribution.
  25
  26 Development goals have been:
  27
  28  * To be very fast
  29    As system administration and package development is a daily job and needs
  30    to be done very frequently, it needs to be fast and reliable.
  31    Pakfire is trying to reach this goal by having a very light package format
  32    and a very fast dependency solver that is using the SAT algorithm
  33    originally developed by SuSE.
  34
  35  * One error should not break the whole distribution
  36    Recently, if one or more packages had a build error, there was no way to
  37    skip that. Pakfire 3 divides the whole distribution into lots of little
  38    packages, which are versioned. So if one package does not build, you
  39    can just use the older version and do what you were doing. The error
  40    can be fixed later.
  41
  42  * Multiple architectures and distributions
  43    The buildsystem should be able to work on other distributions as well, so
  44    the developers do not need to set up a specific development system. You
  45    can now use every common distribution like Fedora, install Pakfire on it
  46    and start with your work. Additionally, pakfire is able to build ix86
  47    architectures on an x64_86 machine.
  48
  49  * Support multiple repositories
  50    Pakfire should be able to support multiple repositories. Which can be
  51    a testing repository, unstable, stable or a repository for development
  52    of a new feature.
  53
  54 In the end, pakfire turned out to be exactly what the IPFire developers wanted.
  55 It is fast and easy to use, you can start development after only one minute
  56 of installation of the software. No more waiting for the compiler to finish
  57 compiling the whole distribution.
  58
  59  - The Pakfire development team
  60
  61    Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
  62    Arne Fitzenreiter <arne.fitzenreiter@ipfire.org>
  63    Christian Schmidt <christian.schmidt@ipfire.org>
  64    Stefan Schantl <stefan.schantl@ipfire.org>
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  66 Please report all bugs to: http://redmine.ipfire.org/projects/pakfire3