-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello!
I am pleased to announce GNU swbis 0.483, available at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/swbis/ The project home page is http://www.gnu.org/software/swbis The files to download are: swbis-0.483.tar.gz swbis-0.483.tar.gz.sig 2510e90327acd9112a2372cf82ae9aac swbis-0.483.tar.gz 5bc65ef2ad673298c3bd819a3299b39c881a5225 swbis-0.483.tar.gz This release is a minor bug fix release. There were minor fixes to swpackage, code clean-ups and new development to swinstall and swign. What is swbis? Swbis is a free implementation of the Posix software administration standard. It intends (eventually) to provide all the features of, for example, 'rpm' and 'dpkg', while maintaining usefulness to free software developers and system administrators of large heterogeneous networks. Free software developers can use swbis because a swbis source package can be an ordinary looking tarball just like GNU software packages. It even provides a program, 'swign' that uses 'swpackage' and 'tar' in a manner where the generated tarball is created entirely by GNU 'tar'. This archive contains an embedded GPG signature, has the POSIX meta-data directory, and does not change the package file layout. System administrators can use 'swpackage' to construct run-time packages with an embedded GPG signature and deliver it to any GNU/Linux (or BSD or U*ix) host on the network via 'ssh'; and, swinstall does not have to be installed on the remote host. System administrators can use 'swcopy' to copy directories and files from host-to-host. In short swbis is the non-intrusive, network transparent, back-wards compatible, standards conforming, orthogonal-with-the-GNU toolset, packaging system. It uses bash, tar, gpg, and ssh directly. At a fundamental level, the utilities are C programs which write a shell program into the standard input of ssh and the POSIX shell (bash) on the remote end. This is how swinstall and swcopy work. If you are interested in reading more, the manual is at http://www.gnu.org/software/swbis/manual.html Thanks, Jim -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD/Ta2aoGkgF2ZNLERAhvfAJ0TkXx3URc3U4/jw9T6INgd75PsEACaA1VT Sp+Ryf/eK8HDTEPXBRj6XAw= =uZYh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list <info-gnu@gnu.org> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu
