Chapter 45. Software Repositories
This chapter is about software repositories and the software packages that they serve. A software repository is a system that stores software packages and makes them available for installation by clients. The packages are usually ready-to-run, precompiled executable and related data files. You may already be familiar with repository systems such as Debian’s Advanced Package Tool (APT); Yellowdog Updater, Modified (Yum); and Microsoft Windows OneGet and Chocolatey.
Whether providing software to external customers, the global open source world, or an internal group of users, software repositories are a basic element of every computing infrastructure. In this chapter we discuss the many ways that repositories are ...
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