this is the source to my diploma thesis this is provided in the hope:

• someone reads it
• finds the whole or parts useful
• copy the layout ... whatever

copyright/urheberrecht notice: this document and included pictures/raw diagrams are subject to the CC license by sa 3.0, see: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

this document is hosted on: https://github.com/qknight/Multi-PlatformSoftwarePackageManagement

it might be subject to my blog at: blog.lastlog.de

candies can be found here:

• chap 4: components used in a package manager
• chap 4.6: different integration levels of a package manager
• chap 5.13: ways to replicate a system
• chap 5.15 ff
• chap 6.2: evopedia deployment summary
• chap 7 (you might want to read this a few times, it is quite complex)
• chap 9: here i introduce some new terminology in package management (probably a must read)

to build this document i had to install many latex extensions like:

% qlist -I | grep -i dev-tex
dev-tex/glossaries dev-tex/latex2html dev-tex/luatex dev-tex/minted dev-texlive/texlive-basic dev-texlive/texlive-documentation-base dev-texlive/texlive-fontsrecommended dev-texlive/texlive-genericrecommended dev-texlive/texlive-latex dev-texlive/texlive-latexextra dev-texlive/texlive-latexrecommended dev-texlive/texlive-pictures dev-texlive/texlive-texinfo dev-texlive/texlive-xetex (probably some are missing)

to compile i used kile with pdflatex

comments welcome

have fun joachim schiele [email protected]