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YUM's XML repository, built with input from many other developers, quickly became the standard for RPM-based repositories. [31] Besides the distributions that use YUM directly, SUSE Linux 10.1 [33] added support for YUM repositories in YaST, and the Open Build Service repositories use the YUM XML repository format metadata. [31]
Yum extends the functionality of the backend by adding features such as simple configuration for maintaining a network of systems. As another example, the Synaptic Package Manager provides a graphical user interface by using the Advanced Packaging Tool (apt) library, which, in turn, relies on dpkg for core functionality.
RPM was originally written in 1997 by Erik Troan and Marc Ewing, [1] based on pms, rpp, and pm experiences.. pm was written by Rik Faith and Doug Hoffman in May 1995 for Red Hat Software, its design and implementations were influenced greatly by pms, a package management system by Faith and Kevin Martin in the fall of 1993 for the Bogus Linux Distribution.
Maven: a package manager and build tool for Java; npm: a programming library and package manager for Node.js and JavaScript; NuGet: the package manager for the Microsoft development platform including .NET Framework and Xamarin; opam: a source-based package manager for OCaml; PAR::Repository and Perl package manager: binary package managers for ...
In March 2012, Oracle announced free software updates and errata for Oracle Linux on Oracle's public yum repositories. [38] In September 2013, Oracle announced that each month its free public yum servers handle 80 TB of data, and the switch to the Akamai content delivery network to handle the traffic growth. [39]
A software repository, or repo for short, is a storage location for software packages. Often a table of contents is also stored, along with metadata. A software repository is typically managed by source or version control, or repository managers. Package managers allow automatically installing and updating repositories, sometimes called "packages".
DNF (abbreviation for Dandified YUM) [7] [8] [9] is a package manager for Red Hat-based Linux distributions and derivatives. DNF was introduced in Fedora 18 in 2013 as a replacement for yum; [10] it has been the default package manager since Fedora 22 in 2015 [11] and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 [when?] [12] and is also an alternative package manager for Mageia.
Flathub, a repository (or remote source in the Flatpak terminology) located at flathub.org, is the de facto standard for getting applications packaged with Flatpak. [12] Packages are contributed by both Flathub administrators and application developers, with a stated preference for submissions from the developers themselves. [13]