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Distributed Software Administration - DCE Interoperability (XDSA-DCE)
Distributed Software Administration - DCE Interoperability (XDSA-DCE)
Copyright © 1997 The Open Group
Glossary
This specification assumes familiarity with the terminology used in the
POSIX 1387.2 standard.
Some key POSIX 1387.2 terms are included here along with terms
unique to XDSA-DCE.
ACL
Acronym for Access Control List.
catalog
The meta-data describing the software objects in a
software collection.
Each software collection has a catalog.
control file
A control script, or in the case of the exported
form of a software collection (see software packaging layout),
an "INDEX" or "INFO" file describing the software objects
in the software collection.
control script
A file associated with a software object that is executed
by a POSIX 1387.2 standard command at some point in the operation.
depot
Keyword used in the interface coding for the POSIX 1387.2
term "distribution".
distribution
A software collection containing software available for
distribution or installation.
A distribution can be on a removable media or a file system,
and can be in a serial or filesystem format.
files
Files must be grouped into software filesets before they
can be managed.
host
The system that contains software managed by the POSIX
1387.2 standard utilities. The host contains
software collections.
installed software
A software collection containing installed software.
This software may also be configured (activated, or ready
for use) or act as a file server to another installation.
root
Keyword used in the interface coding for POSIX 1387.2
term "installed software collection".
SOC
XDSA-DCE acronym for POSIX 1387.2 term "software collection".
software collection
A grouping of software objects to be managed.
POSIX 1387.2 standard
commands apply tasks to software objects within software
collections.
Distributions are software collections of available software.
Installed software collections contain software
installed and ready for use or file serving to another installation.
software object
A software product or fileset that
contains files and control files, as well as descriptive
and behavioral attributes.
(There are also grouping of products and filesets called
bundles and subproducts respectively).
Software objects are managed by the POSIX 1387.2 standard
commands within the
context of software collections.
software packaging layout
Describes the layout of the software files in a distribution,
as well as the syntax of the files describing the attributes of the
software in the distribution.
This is an exported form of a software collection.
INDEX files contain the attributes of the software objects.
INFO files contain the attributes of the software file and
control file objects.
software product
A group of related software.
Products contain filesets and control scripts.
software fileset
A set of software files and control scripts.
This is the smallest manageable object.
software selections
The set of software objects that are applied to
each software collection in the course of executing a command.
source
A software collection on a particular host.
The source of a command is the collection from which the software objects
are retrieved.
target
A software collection on a particular host.
The target of a command is the collection to which the software objects
are applied (for example, for installing software) or otherwise operated
on (for example, verified, removed).
target selections
The set of software collections that the software selections
are applied to in the course of executing a command.
XDSA-DCE
Acronym for identifying this specification, derived from its subject
matter which addresses Distributed Software Administration
in an environment which uses DCE RPC technology to provide
interoperability between implementations.
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