Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 10.3: New Package Management
openSUSE 10.3 is set to contain a new, significantly improved and more mature package management stack by default. ZMD, the package management component causing problems in SUSE Linux 10.1 and to a lesser extent in openSUSE 10.2, has been completely removed and is now replaced by the new libzypp and its tools. Today we’ll be taking a look at the new package management and talking to Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett, one of the central libzypp developers.
ZMD and Package Management Woes
ZENworks Management Daemon (ZMD) was part of the enterprise package management selection that was imported into SUSE Linux 10.1, and it used extra helpers in order to interact and synchronise with libzypp. ZMD offered many advanced features and provided rug, a powerful command-line tool for package management. Nevertheless, the integration of ZMD into openSUSE became problematic and it was eventually decided that the given features were not so necessary for openSUSE, but that it would remain on the SUSE Linux Enterprise products.
Looking Forward
So the ZYpp team have been working hard on improving libzypp, and there is a lot to show for it by this stage.
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