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1.1 ! root 1: .TL ! 2: A System for Automatic Software Distribution ! 3: .AU ! 4: Mike Haertel ! 5: .AI ! 6: AT&T Bell Laboratories ! 7: Murray Hill, NJ 07974 ! 8: .AB ! 9: .\" ! 10: .\" Single Heterogeneous network seeks automatic software distribution mechanism ! 11: .\" \(em Greg Lindahl ! 12: .\" ! 13: With the advent of wildly heterogeneous networks, automatic software ! 14: distribution has become a nightmare. Binaries are useless, and source ! 15: code often fails to recompile across ostensibly standard systems. ! 16: Finally, security is, as always, a concern, especially when the automatic ! 17: installation of priviliged system software is desired. We describe ! 18: yet another attempt to address some of these issues. Our system is ! 19: built out of the ! 20: .UX ! 21: tools, with a small amount of glue. ! 22: .AE
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