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Expressing advanced user preferences in component installation
Ralf Treinen, Stefano Zacchiroli
State of the art component-based software collections - such as FOSS distributions - are made of up to dozens of thousands components, with complex inter-dependencies and conflicts…
Towards maintainer script modernization in FOSS distributions
Davide Di Ruscio, Patrizio Pelliccione, Alfonso Pierantonio +1
Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) distributions are complex software systems, made of thousands packages that evolve rapidly, independently, and without centralized coordination…
Strong Dependencies between Software Components
Pietro Abate, Jaap Boender, Roberto Di Cosmo +1
Component-based systems often describe context requirements in terms of explicit inter-component dependencies. Studying large instances of such systems?such as free and open source…
Package upgrades in FOSS distributions: details and challenges
Roberto Di Cosmo, Stefano Zacchiroli, Paulo Trezentos
The upgrade problems faced by Free and Open Source Software distributions have characteristics not easily found elsewhere. We describe the structure of packages and their role in t…
Description of the CUDF Format
Ralf Treinen, Stefano Zacchiroli
This document contains several related specifications, together they describe the document formats related to the solver competition which will be organized by Mancoosi. In particu…
Solving package dependencies: from EDOS to Mancoosi
Ralf Treinen, Stefano Zacchiroli
Mancoosi (Managing the Complexity of the Open Source Infrastructure) is an ongoing research project funded by the European Union for addressing some of the challenges related to th…