[HSC-Unix] UTHSCSA Standard Linux Platform

[Jeremy Mann]

Borries Demeler said:

> On this topic:
>
> APT, the Advanced Package Tool, is available for SuSE also (see:
> "http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm", which describes a repository of APT
> packages for SuSE and has links to testimonial reports and to a HOWTO
> for installing APT under SuSE.
>
> Even if we consider doing something custom for UTHSCSA I think it would
> be worthwhile to take as much as possible advantage of other people's
> work in maintaining and upgrading. If there is a well working packaging
> system that we could take advantage of that is popular and well used,
> I'd rather use that than something homebrewed.

I have had experience with apt-get for SuSE with not too good results. The
problem with it is that there are SO many repositories and different
versions of software with different installation directories, in the same
repository. I discovered that if I wanted to keep my system up to date, I
either had to stick with either YaST2 (SuSE's updater) or apt-get. I could
not mix both.

> I like John's idea of thinking about Sun's solution. They have a
> good implementation and offer support for those who would need it.
> Their licensing is very reasonable, too.

Didn't the Sun representative say that some people on campus volunteered
to test the Beta release? If so, who are they?



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