Paludis
Paludis is a package manager for Gentoo (and derived distributions) and Exherbo. It consists of a core library and a number of console-based clients. Package formats supported include Gentoo ebuilds and kdebuilds (as defined by the Package Manager Specification), the Exherbo exheres-0 format, and various miscellaneous utility pseudo-formats for managing accounts, unwritten and unavailable packages, and packages for which no package exists.
| Tags | Software Distribution Software Distribution Tools |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Linux |
| Implementation | C++ Unix Shell bash |
Recent releases
- 08 Jul 2009 17:42
Changes: The =...* dependency operator in configuration files and command line arguments now matches component-wise rather than character-wise. Support for EAPI 3 is present and used during tests but excluded from the install target.
- 23 Apr 2009 10:50
Changes: Various Ruby 1.9 fixes were made. Hashes are now memoised, to speed up --pretend --install for certain cases. pcrecpp is now used rather than pcre++ to avoid the latter's lack of thread sanity.
- 28 Feb 2009 00:21
Changes: System packages are now treated as 'used' for --uninstall. Fetch-related errors that can be caught up front are now tested at --pretend time. Support for [.key=value] dependency specifications. Support for configurable output managers. These are undocumented in this release, and configuration formats may change without backwards compatibility; documentation and stability will be provided once any kinks have been ironed out. By default, message logs for all packages and build logs for failed packages are kept in /var/log/paludis/. SLOT and EAPI now show up as metadata keys, and are searchable.
- 26 Feb 2009 17:19
Changes: --continue-on-failure would always consider old-style virtuals unsatisfied. This is now fixed.
- 11 Feb 2009 00:56
Changes: VDB entries lacking CONFIG_PROTECT keys (such as those created by Portage) would cause an error in 0.34.3. This is now fixed. Tests for 0.34.3 would fail as root because reads and writes to a-rw files would still succeed. Affected tests are now skipped when root.
