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* [TUHS] Package Management
@ 2020-11-20 21:32 Henry Bent
  2020-11-21  0:55 ` Jeremy C. Reed
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From: Henry Bent @ 2020-11-20 21:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hello All,

I know I have asked this before, but I am curious about any new replies or
insight.  How did package management start?  Were sites keeping track of
packages installed in a flat file that you could grep (as god intended)
somewhere, or were upgrades and additions simply done without significant
announcement?  At what point did someone decide, 'Hey, we need to have a
central way to track additional software"?

I know of DEC's setld and SGI's inst in the latter half of the '80s.  What
was the mechanism before that?

-Henry

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* [TUHS] Package Management
@ 2017-01-24  4:27 Henry Bent
  2017-01-24 17:06 ` Clem Cole
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From: Henry Bent @ 2017-01-24  4:27 UTC (permalink / raw)


The recent discussion of Solaris made me think - what was the first Unix to
have centralized package management as part of the OS?  I know that IRIX
had it, I think from the beginning (possibly even for the GL2 releases) but
I imagine there was probably something before that.

-Henry
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