RPM boost

This version comes with improved support for RPM. The tool now searches for dependencies on rpmfind and optionally installs them (-d, --install-dependencies). We process both library symbols and program versions when doing a remote search for a dependency.

We no longer symlink packages by default, too. Thanks to GoboLinux' support for filesystem virtualization through Runner we can simply invoke Runner /path/to/program and all dependencies will be activated on the fly.

v2.0: Adjust Makefile to have files under 'Functions' copied when running

This version includes support for the installation of DEB packages. The same features and meta-data created when installing RPM files apply to DEB files too.

Currently the only caveat with DEB files is that there's no easy way to tell the license of a given package. Debian has only recently agreed on a specification for describing that information in a machine-parseable friendly format, but few packages out there use it.

Note that this version has been bumped straight from 1.0 to 2.0 due to a name change in the major script. It is no longer called InstallPackage-RPM but rather just ThirdPartyInstaller (as we may want to include support for further package formats down the road.)

v1.0

All the basic features to support the installation of RPM packages on GoboLinux have been implemented by now, including:

• Merging multiple RPMs to a single entry on /Programs
• Flattening /opt under the entry at /Programs and creating compatibility links from /opt back to /Programs
• Dependencies resolution that includes searches on RPMFind.net, on the GoboLinux recipe store, and on the list of installed programs under /Programs
• Creation of GoboLinux Resources meta-data such as Architecture, Description, Revision, and UnmanagedFiles

Packages installed by InstallPackage-RPM have an extra meta-data at Resources/PackageSource indicating the original RPM file given as input and the distribution it was generated for (as long as that information is available in the RPM headers).