Package upgrades in FOSS distributions: Details and challenges

Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Upgrades, HotSWUp'08

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Cosmo, Roberto Di ^a   Zacchiroli, Stefano ^a   Trezentos, Paulo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^b INSTITUTO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE LISBOA ISCTE IUL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Distribution; FOSS; Packages; Rollback; Upgrade

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION; FOSS; PACKAGES; ROLLBACK; UPGRADE;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 70349100309     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1490283.1490292     Document Type: Conference Paper

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