Swaret

Swaret
Developer(s)	Michael Manry
Initial release	2001; 23 years ago
Stable release	1.6.3 / October 2006; 17 years ago
Written in	Shell script
Operating system	Slackware and derivatives
Platform	Linux
Type	Package management systems
License	GPL

Swaret was a program for the Slackware Linux distribution that resolves dependencies.^[1]^[2] Swaret stands for SlackWARE Tool.

Features

True library dependency resolution
Rollback capability^{[citation needed]}
Logging
3rd party software repository support
Support for http, ftp, rsync, and local filesystems

History

The program was created by Luc Cottyn, and was originally called "autopkg". However, because of a conflict with another project of the same name it was renamed to swaret. It has no active maintainer.^[3]

References

↑ Castro, Jose Dieguez (2016-06-10) (in en). Introducing Linux Distros. Apress. ISBN 978-1-4842-1392-6. https://books.google.com/books?id=9vZjDAAAQBAJ&q="Swaret"+linux&pg=PA275.
↑ Negus, Christopher (2005-01-28) (in en). Linux Bible. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-7645-8974-4. https://books.google.com/books?id=YDXlYUuIQv8C&q="Swaret"+linux&pg=PA388.
↑ "SWareT / Discussion / Open Discussion: Is swaret dead?". https://sourceforge.net/p/swaret/discussion/303953/thread/a4627fcd/?limit=25.

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[1] Castro, Jose Dieguez (2016-06-10) (in en). Introducing Linux Distros. Apress. ISBN 978-1-4842-1392-6. https://books.google.com/books?id=9vZjDAAAQBAJ&q="Swaret"+linux&pg=PA275.

[2] Negus, Christopher (2005-01-28) (in en). Linux Bible. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-7645-8974-4. https://books.google.com/books?id=YDXlYUuIQv8C&q="Swaret"+linux&pg=PA388.

[3] "SWareT / Discussion / Open Discussion: Is swaret dead?". https://sourceforge.net/p/swaret/discussion/303953/thread/a4627fcd/?limit=25.

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