Software Upgrade Protocol: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 12:27, 11 October 2011

Revision as of 13:15, 11 October 2011

Line 1:

{{AFC submission|h||ts=20111011131525|u=JohnGH|ns=5}}

{{AFC submission|t||ts=20111011111624|u=JohnGH|ns=5}} <!--- Important, do not remove this line before article has been created. --->

The Software Upgrade Protocol (or SUP) System is a set of programs developed by [[Carnegie Mellon University]] in the 1980s<ref>[http://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.

It was originally developed under the [[Mach (kernel)|Mach]] operating system, but implementations are provided with Debian<ref>[http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/sup Debian Package: sup] (Software Upgrade Protocol implementation)</ref> & Ubuntu<ref>[http://ns2.canonical.com/natty/sup Ubuntu Package: sup] (Software Upgrade Protocol implementation)</ref> Linux distributions.

==References==

{{reflist}}

<!--- After listing your sources please cite them using inline citations and place them after the information they cite. Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:REFB for instructions on how to add citations. --->

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

==Categories==

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

*

*

[[Category:Network protocols]]