On Tue, Dec 08, 2009, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
Anyone here using openpkg? Any thoughts about it?
We have been using this since 2001 or so when we moved from Caldera Linux to SuSE. We now use it on CentOS, OpenSolaris, FreeBSD, OS X, and even SCO OpenServer 5.0.6a.
For an old writeup I did on this see this page.
http://www.celestial.com/support/Documentation/openpkg
Using OpenPKG vastly simplifies the job of maintaining server software without having to depend on the underlying vendor's packaging, and does so with minimal intrusion on the system. We don't have to worry about what versions of apache, postfix, php, postgresql, mysql, berkeley db, etc. the vendor supplies as we use the OpenPKG packages in their place. Typically we get updates out to large numbers of systems within 24 hours of updates of things like clamav, samba, far quicker than CentOS or others make them available.
Bill