Software Vocabulary

From openSUSE

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• Channel - communication way, like protocol and server to reach some destination like Software Repository.
• Catalog - description of software repository content.

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• Installation Source is any medium that contains one or more installable Software Packages.

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• Package a collection of (related) files, the usual way to represent software on a Linux system
• Patch a description of a change, usually to fix a bug
• Pattern a collection of (related) packages, used to represent a specific functionality of the openSUSE system
• Plain text is term describing text files that except characters that can be seen on the screen contain minimum formating characters like new line and tab

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• Software Repository is collection of Software Packages.
• Software Package is bundle of software, documentation and configuration instructions packaged in single file (rpm, deb, tar.gz, etc).

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• ZENworks Linux Management (ZLM) uses the following terminology
  • service A functionality provided by the ZLM server, a typical service is package related
  • bundle A group of packages, treated as a single entity
  • repository This is on the backend 6.x or 7.x service and it is the location where all the packages are stored. The contents are never directly represented to the user - the end user view is only via package assignment or via catalog assignment.
  • catalog This is the end-user representation of packages based on groupings determined by the administrator. These groupings are simply created by identifying a catalog and adding the packages that you want to be available in that catalog - ie Multimedia would have mplayer and the codecs.