Local Disk Depot - Customizing the Software Environment: Customizing the Software Environment
LISA '93 Proceedings of the 7th USENIX conference on System administration
OpenDist - Incremental Software Distribution
LISA '95 Proceedings of the 9th USENIX conference on System administration
Automating the Administration of Heterogeneous LANs
LISA '96 Proceedings of the 10th USENIX conference on System administration
Abstract Yourself With Modules
LISA '96 Proceedings of the 10th USENIX conference on System administration
SLINK: Simple, Effective Filesystem Maintenance Abstractions for Community-Based Administration
LISA '96 Proceedings of the 10th USENIX conference on System administration
Managing and Distributing Application Software
LISA '96 Proceedings of the 10th USENIX conference on System administration
LISA '97 Proceedings of the 11th USENIX conference on System administration
SEPP - Software Installation and Sharing System
LISA '98 Proceedings of the 12th USENIX conference on System administration
Use of Cfengine for Automated, Multi-Platform Software and Patch Distribution
LISA '00 Proceedings of the 14th USENIX conference on System administration
Global Impact Analysis of Dynamic Library Dependencies
LISA '01 Proceedings of the 15th USENIX conference on System administration
LISA '01 Proceedings of the 15th USENIX conference on System administration
Nix: A Safe and Policy-Free System for Software Deployment
LISA '04 Proceedings of the 18th USENIX conference on System administration
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Previous versions of depot type schemes for maintaining software, including the NIST depot[5], Xheir[8], CMU depot[2] and its extensions[10], address the needs of a large site with knowledgeable software specialists. At the University of Massachusetts at Boston, software support is provided by a number of student operators, and faculty members. A new lighter weight depot scheme was needed to reduce the amount of knowledge needed by these less experienced software installers. In addition, we needed a depot scheme that would allow the concurrent operation of multiple versions of the same software package on a given host. This paper presents a refinement of the depot scheme that works well for a smaller site, that does not have dedicated software specialists, as well as a larger site that is interested in getting the efficiency and modularity advantages that the depot scheme offers. Although we use the modules package and the amd automounter to ease the administration of depot-lite, neither tool is mandatory for its operation.