Software related to RPM

Here you can find links to software related to RPM such as frontends, packaging tools etc.

RPM Frontends / Depsolvers

• YUM is a popular RPM frontend written in Python.

• APT-RPM is an RPM port of the Debian APT package management tool written in C++.

• SmartPM is another frontend for RPM (also works with DEB, Slackware etc packaging formats) written (mostly) in Python

• Poldek is another frontend for RPM, primarily used by the PLD distribution.

Packager tools

• rpmlint is a tool for checking for common errors in RPM packaging.

• rpmdevtools contains scripts and (X)Emacs support files to aid in RPM packaging.

• cpan2rpm generates RPM packages from Perl CPAN modules.

• cpanspec is another tool for creating RPM packages from Perl CPAN modules.

• rpmrebuild is a tool that can generate a spec from an already installed RPM (useful when you don't have access to real source rpm, eg with packages of proprietary software)

Build tools

• Mock is a 'simple' chroot build environment manager for building RPMs.

• Mach is a more generic chroot environment manager that can also be used for building RPMs.

• Mezzanine is a set of tools which simplify the management of software packages and collections of software packages.

Other tools

• DeltaRPM contais tools for creating and applying change deltas of RPM packages

• rpm2html generates web pages that describe a set of RPM packages.

Language bindings

• perl-RPM2 provides an object-oriented interface to RPM facilities for Perl.

• RPM-Specfile is a Perl extension for creating RPM specfiles.

• Ruby-RPM provides Ruby bindings to RPM.

• Python bindings are distributed as part of RPM releases.

• JRPM is a java library to manipule and create RPM archives.

• Redline is a pure Java library for manipulating RPM Package Manager packages.

• phprpm provides some basic functionality for accessing RPM files from PHP programs.