Topic: Linux Package Management Speaker: Piercarlo Grandi (MathEngine) Date: Sunday 2nd December Time: 6.30pm Venue: Comlab
Followed by drinks at the Lamb and Flag (as always).
The Comlab entrance is from Parks Road and there are maps at http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/ox/maps.html
Synopsis: * Filesystem structure * Multidimensional view * Hierarchical view * Which view?
* Package structure * Files * Scripts * Metadata * Build prereqs * Runtime prereqs * Install provides * Info
* How to map packages onto filesystems * Requirements * The problem with overlapping packages
* Some solutions * 'depot' * Lots of others ('stow' etc.) * Major Linux ones * RPM * DPKG * POSIX
* Package building * Why * How
The topic for January's meeting will be wireless networking (including consume.net). Martin Ling, Sun 6th Jan 2002.
Alasdair