Links

This is a commented list of links to documents of high interest about other software administration tools.

Gentoo Portage is extremly similar to what JPKG will look like. This means Portage already works, providing a full set of interesting features. Why continuing JPKG then? First of all, I discovered Portage extremly late, since I didn't know Gentoo Linux Distribution, thus work and personal commitment already reached a no return stage... :) Then come the more objective points: Portage design and code seem don't seem completely finished, and Portage currently seems to miss features I'd like to see (work with cvs, real "alternates" a la Debian etc.)
More information on Portage can be found in Portage Manual and Portage User Guide. Enjoy!

DPKGv2 is being designed to be the replacement of the current famous Debian distribution package manager, DPKG. You'll find DPKGv2 specs here. A more complete documentation about good "old" DPKG is located here.

OpenPKG

BSD Ports

GNU Stow is intended to allow traceability to "hand made" installations, allowing more efficient software administration than the usual "make install" & "make uninstall" tandem.

Graft is a simple, fast and efficient tool written in Perl, intended to simplify installation and removal of "hand compiled" software. Graft is easier to understand and use than Stow, in my very humble opinion, and was designed with an admirable intent of maintenability and "clean" code.

Last but, obviously not least, an intersting comparison of Linux distributions commonly used packages formats.