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A System for Automatic Software Distribution
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Mike Haertel
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AT&T Bell Laboratories
Murray Hill, NJ  07974
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.\" Single Heterogeneous network seeks automatic software distribution mechanism
.\"	\(em Greg Lindahl
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With the advent of wildly heterogeneous networks, automatic software
distribution has become a nightmare.  Binaries are useless, and source
code often fails to recompile across ostensibly standard systems.
Finally, security is, as always, a concern, especially when the automatic
installation of priviliged system software is desired.  We describe
yet another attempt to address some of these issues.  Our system is
built out of the
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tools, with a small amount of glue.
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