From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: henry.r.bent@gmail.com (Henry Bent) Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 12:46:20 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] Package Management In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Perhaps I should have been more specific - I was referring to something akin to Ultrix's setld or IRIX's inst, a user-friendly utility to view/install/upgrade OS components as well as applications. Ultrix setld first appeared in 2.0, which was 1987. As far as I can tell, IRIX inst appeared at about the same time. A quick look through some manuals shows that SunOS 3 (same timeframe) appears to have had a user-friendly initial setup program but it's not clear to me if it could be used after an installation to deinstall/modify/upgrade/etc. I know almost nothing about early HPUX, AIX, Domain/OS, etc. and hopefully some folks who used them might be able to chime in. And yes, setld is pretty bad. I remember it being painfully slow on real hardware, and it's still somewhat slow on emulated hardware. -Henry On 24 January 2017 at 12:06, Clem Cole wrote: > Hmmm - I suspect is depends on what you call package & installation > management. My guess is that all of the UNIX systems had something that > were made from people that were birthed on DEC systems. Certainly, > Masscomp's RTU had something very much like VMS's scheme - why because the > same person designed/influenced/implemented both of them (Tom Kent). > My guess is that SunOS, Apollo/Domain et al were similar - as at least > they knew the importance of same. > > The problem I have with the question is that the managers we have today > are much different than the managers we had then. Even things as simple > as BSD's pkg_add is different from RPM much less yum, apt or brew compared > to the (shutter) setld (DEC's my least favorite). > > Clem > > On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 11:27 PM, Henry Bent > wrote: > >> 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 >> > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: