They do, however, have the concept of dependency among packages. The configuration control software that I mentioned does quite a bit more.
Are they as powerful as SMP? No, but they fill a similar niche. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Jay Maynard [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2023 9:49 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: not using SMPe Yes, there are indeed Linux package managers. They don't get beyond the "replace the entire package" level. THey have no concept of individual fixes and their interactions. On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 7:14 PM Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > There are a lot of people using package managers in the Linux world, and a > lot of software available as, e.g., deb, rpm, files. To say nothing of, > e.g., cvs, git, SCCS, svn. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf > of Jay Maynard [[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2023 5:33 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: not using SMPe > > That's because SMP/E and its power are only truly present in the z/OS and > predecessors world. Everyone else thinks of applying maintenance as a > matter of replacing the entire product, instead of individual fixes that > are automatically maintained and managed. > > On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 4:22 PM Ed Jaffe <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > SMP/E use for products like Java, NodeJS, Zowe, etc. is almost pointless > > since they always do full product replacements. > > > Jay Maynard > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Jay Maynard ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
