Hi, Trow and I talked incessantly about it over Guinness at GUADEC, and it's finally ready for human consumption: rcd 2.0, rug 2.0, red-carpet 2.2, and open-carpet 0.1 are now available. ABOUT THIS SOFTWARE =================== (or, What is this thing you call love?) The Red Carpet Daemon (rcd) is a system daemon which provides users access to the underlying packaging database. Through an XML-RPC interface, clients can view the database, and with sufficient permissions install, remove, and upgrade packages. The daemon also provides a very powerful dependency resolver which removes the headaches of software management. Rug is the command-line client interface to rcd. With it you can browse software through channels, install and remove packages, and get package information. It also includes "power features" like package history, locks for preventing certain updates, and package rollback. Red Carpet is a GTK-based graphical client which uses the daemon to provide a friendly interface for managing software. Open Carpet is a set of tools to create package metadata so that anyone with a web page and some packages can set up a Red Carpet service. MULTIPLE SERVICE SUPPORT ======================== (or, It's a big world out there.) These new versions of rcd, rug, and red-carpet allow you to now use any number of Red Carpet services, including ones set up by third-parties using the Open Carpet tools. This opens up the Red Carpet system to a very large body of software provided by the open source community that isn't shipped with Ximian products or your standard Linux distribution. In rug, you can add new services by using the "rug service-add" command like so: rug service-add http://open-carpet.org In Red Carpet, you can add services by going to Edit -> Services. OPEN CARPET SERVICE =================== (or, Can I install perl-Device-Regulator-Plasmatronic?) To illustrate the convenience and power of the new multiple service support, there is a Red Carpet service at http://open-carpet.org which makes available to rcd users a large number of existing Apt RPM repositories, including FreshRPMS, the Fedora Project, NewRPMS, Dag Wieers' Apt RPM repository, GStreamer, ATrpms, ExtRPMs, Jpackage, and RPMPAN. If you know of an Apt repository not listed there, or run an Apt repository and would like to add a Red Carpet service, please contact us and we'll be happy to oblige. HOW TO GET IT ============= (or, Gimme gimme gimme!) If you are already running rcd, you can get the new versions of rcd, rug, and red-carpet from the "Red Carpet 2" channel. If you upgrade, PLEASE UPGRADE ALL THREE PACKAGES AT ONCE, THEN RUN "rug restart" AFTERWARD. Unfortunately old versions of rug and red-carpet will not work properly with the new version of rcd, nor will the new rug and red-carpet work with an old rcd. If you don't follow these directions, you'll need to use rpm to do this by hand. We're sorry about the inconvenience and promise it won't happen again. Otherwise, you can download packages for a variety of distributions from ftp://ftp.ximian.com/pub/redcarpet2. You can also find information on getting the source to the Red Carpet client components by visiting the Ximian developers site at http://developer.ximian.com/projects/source You can get Open Carpet packages, source and more info on the project at http://open-carpet.org _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
