STORE

A System for Third Party Software Installation and Maintenance

• License information
• What is STORE?
• Introduction to STORE
  • The /store directory tree
  • The main utility programs.
    • cmaster utility
    • cslave utility
    • cclient utility
    • report utility
    • status utility (planned)
    • autocomp utility
• Concepts and conventions of STORE
  • The central repository concept
  • The macro view
  • Machines having one or several repositories
  • The application concept
  • Versions of applications
  • Master repositories
  • Slave repositories
  • Compile Servers
  • Compile trees
  • Generalized architectures
  • The administrative area
  • Cooperating administrative domains
  • Different nightly scripts
  • Using persons' initials for reporting
• Installing STORE
  • Requirements for installing STORE
  • Description of preliminary actions
  • The 'inistore' setup script
  • Completing the setup
    • Fixing the nightly script
    • Changes to user setup to accomodate STORE.
• Installing software under STORE
  • Installation goals
  • Installing programs -- checklist
  • Tools used when installing
    • "shadow"
    • "unshadow" and "fix"
    • "postinst"
    • "register"
    • "slaveapp"
    • "linkup"
    • "linkdown"
  • Handling documentation
  • Example installation: Gopher
  • Example installation: Xgopher
  • Installing emacs lisp packages
  • Example installation: ange-ftp
  • Example installation: gcc
• Example configuration files
  • Example registration file
    • Manually entered information
    • Computed information
  • Configuration file
    • Quick guide to etc/config features
    • Full walkthrough of the etc/config syntax
    • Simple config example
    • Complex config example
    • A configuration file with foreign linktrees
  • The genarchs configuration file
    • Adding architectures
    • Adding and changing domains
  • night.sh script examples
  • Nightly Command examples
  • List of core applications
• Understanding STORE output
  • Top 10 errors and warnings
• Miscellaneous
  • The problem background
  • The history of STORE
  • About the authors
  • Todo list
  • Contact persons
• Concept Index

This document was generated on 28 October 1996 using the texi2html translator version 1.51.