Swaret

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swaret
Developer:	Michael Manry
Latest Release:	1.6.3 / June 2005
Initial Release date:	2001
Platform:	Linux
Operating System	Slackware and derivatives
Genre:	Automation
License:	GPL

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

[edit] Features

True library dependency resolution.
Rollback capability.
Logging.
3rd party software repository support.
Support for http, ftp, rsync, and local filesystems.

[edit] 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.