Pacloud: Towards a universal cloud-based linux package manager

Olivier Bal-Pétré; Pierre Varlez; Fernando Perez-Tellez

doi:10.1145/3380678.3380685

Pacloud: Towards a universal cloud-based linux package manager

Olivier Bal-Pétré, Pierre Varlez, Fernando Perez-Tellez

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Abstract

Package managers are a very important part of Linux distributions but we have noticed two weaknesses in them: They use pre-built packages that are not optimised for specific hardware and often they are too heavy for a specific need, or packages may require plenty of time and resources to be compiled. In this paper, we present a novel Linux package manager which uses cloud computing features to compile and distribute Linux packages without impacting the end user's performance. We also show how Portage, Gentoo's package manager can be optimised for customisation and performance, along with the cloud computing features to compile Linux packages more efficiently. All of this resulting in a new cloud-based Linux package manager that is built for better computing performance.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CECCC 2019 - 2019 International Communication Engineering and Cloud Computing Conference
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	6-13
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450376396
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3380678.3380685
Publication status	Published - 8 Oct 2019
Event	2019 International Communication Engineering and Cloud Computing Conference, CECCC 2019 - Prague, Czech Republic Duration: 8 Oct 2019 → 10 Oct 2019

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Name	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

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Conference	2019 International Communication Engineering and Cloud Computing Conference, CECCC 2019
Country/Territory	Czech Republic
City	Prague
Period	8/10/19 → 10/10/19

Keywords

Cloud Computing
Installation Performance
Linux Package Manager
Pre-built Packages

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Bal-Pétré, O, Varlez, P & Perez-Tellez, F 2019, Pacloud: Towards a universal cloud-based linux package manager. in CECCC 2019 - 2019 International Communication Engineering and Cloud Computing Conference. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 6-13, 2019 International Communication Engineering and Cloud Computing Conference, CECCC 2019, Prague, Czech Republic, 8/10/19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3380678.3380685

Pacloud: Towards a universal cloud-based linux package manager. / Bal-Pétré, Olivier; Varlez, Pierre; Perez-Tellez, Fernando.
CECCC 2019 - 2019 International Communication Engineering and Cloud Computing Conference. Association for Computing Machinery, 2019. p. 6-13 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

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