On Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 01:21:31PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Someone was interested enough to write a Usenix paper about it, although I
> believe it was independent invention. "SEPP -- Software Installation and
> Sharing System" by Tobias Oetiker, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology,
> Zurich. Everything is stored in /usr/pack. The focus there is more
> towards sharing user executables across multiple machines, rather than
> isolating subsystems on a single machine, but it's a very similar idea.
>
> We do something quite similar for software management in AFS as well.
Sorry for off topic (slightly):
Already back in 1990 there is a LISA IV paper:
The Depot: A Framework for Sharing Software Installation Across
Organizational and UNIX Platform Boundaries
For those interested it's available e.g. at
http://www.leo.org/pub/comp/doc/LISA/lisa4/
\Maex
P.S. I'd like to join in and wish you all a peaceful, merry xmas and a
happy new year and thank you for everything I've learned from
this list.
