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swaret
Developer: Michael Manry
Latest Release: 1.6.3 / October 2006
Initial Release date: 2001
Platform: Linux
Operating System Slackware and derivatives
Genre: Automation
License: GPL

Swaret was a program for the Slackware distribution of Linux that resolves dependencies. Swaret stands for SlackWARE Tool.

Features

  • True library dependency resolution.
  • Rollback capability.
  • 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. Luc was unable to continue working on the project due to a conflict with Patrick Volkerding, Slackware's developer[citation needed]. It is currently being maintained by Michael Manry.

Distributions

Swaret currently runs on STUX.