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From: conklin@kaleida.com (J.T. Conklin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: I'll fix it! ;)
Date: 24 Mar 93 17:04:09
Organization: Kaleida Labs, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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In-reply-to: crt@tiamat.umd.umich.edu's message of 24 Mar 93 21:32:49 GMT
Rob> something that will have a totally NEw install program (with much
Rob> better control over what you want to install, as well as how much
Rob> room you want to give each partition), and the ability to remove
Rob> installed packages (ie: like Xenox and several other flavors of
Rob> UNIX allow you to do effortlessly).
I've been reviewing the latest POSIX.7.2 "software installation"
draft. The toolset is quite impressive (if not overwhelming) but I
believe that it (or something that offers similar capibility) is
neccessary to streamline the release management process.
I'm deliberately leaving out details; but the advantage of such a
system is that separate packages make it a lot easier for release
engineering. ie. Fixes and new versions of user level programs need
not wait for a new kernel release.
I've been toying with implementing the POSIX tools myself. It
shouldn't be to difficult if I leave out the network installation
stuff.
--jtc
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