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Managing the Complexity of Large Free and Open Source Package-Based Software Distributions

Fabio Mancinelli, Jaap Boender, Roberto Di Cosmo, Jerome Vouillon, Berke Durak, Xavier Leroy, Ralf Treinen

Full textDOI 10.1109/ase.2006.49dblp

Abstract

The widespread adoption of free and open source software (FOSS) in many strategic contexts of the information technology society has drawn the attention on the issues regarding how to handle the complexity of assembling and managing a huge number of (packaged) components in a consistent and effective way. FOSS distributions (and in particular GNU/Linux-based ones) have always provided tools for managing the tasks of installing, removing and upgrading the (packaged) components they were made of While these tools provide a (not always effective) way to handle these tasks on the client side, there is still a lack of tools that could help the distribution editors to maintain, on the server side, large and high-quality distributions. In this paper we present our research whose main goal is to fill this gap: we show our approach, the tools we have developed and their application with experimental results. Our contribution provides an effective and automatic way to support distribution editors in handling those issues that were, until now, mostly addressed using ad-hoc tools and manual techniques

BibTeX
@inproceedings{Mancinelli-al:ASE06,
  author    = {Fabio Mancinelli and
               Jaap Boender and
               Roberto Di Cosmo and
               Jerome Vouillon and
               Berke Durak and
               Xavier Leroy and
               Ralf Treinen},
  title     = {Managing the Complexity of Large Free and Open Source {Package-Based} Software Distributions},
  booktitle = {ASE},
  pages     = {199--208},
  publisher = {{IEEE} Computer Society},
  year      = {2006},
}

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