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The '''Software Upgrade Protocol''' (or SUP) System is a set of programs developed by [[Carnegie Mellon University]] in the 1980s<ref>[https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/mach/public/sup/sup.ps (theThe homeSUP Software Upgrade Protocol] - Steven Shafer & Mary Thompson, Carnegie Mellon University [[Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science|School of Computer Science]], 7 September 1989.</ref> (as was the [[Andrew File System]]). thatIt provideprovides for collections of files to be maintained in identical versions across a number of machines.

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It was originally developed under the [[Mach (kernel)|Mach]] operating system, but implementations are provided with Debian<ref>[https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=sup&searchon=names&exact=1 Debian Package: sup] (Software Upgrade Protocol implementation)</ref> & Ubuntu<ref>[https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=sup&searchon=names&exact=1 Ubuntu Package: sup] (Software Upgrade Protocol implementation)</ref> Linux distributions.

The Software Upgrade Protocol (or SUP) System is a set of programs developed by Carnegie Mellon University in the 1980s (the home of the [[Andrew File System]]) that provide for collections of files to be maintained in identical versions across a number of machines.

It was originally developed under the Mach operating system, but implementations are provided with Debian & Ubuntu Linux distributions.

==References==

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* http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/mach/public/sup/sup.ps

==Categories==

* http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/sup

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