UPS, UPD and UPP v4

Related Documents | Historical Materials

Related Documents and Information

Division Recommendations and Technical Notes

• DR0009 Computing Division UNIX Environment Standards (the FUE environment)
• TN0086 Use of "/usr/local/products" now deprecated
• TN0088 Files Which You May Be Able To Remove From /usr/local
• TN0089 FUE Login Methodology
• TN0090 Guidelines for Product Maintainers: How to Write a Table File for 'Privileged Product' Installations
• TN0091 Configuring a Local UPS Database (While Still Using the Centrally Supported AFS Database)
• TN0092 What Does "InstallAsRoot" Really Mean?

Forms and other Web Pages

• View the Quick Reference Card (html), or print the PostScript Quick Reference Card (legal sized paper). Printed copies are available at WH8NE.
• See information on the UPS/UPD CDROM distribution for Linux.
• To register for downloading products from fnkits.fnal.gov (off-site machines only): Product Distribution Platform Registration Request
• To download a proprietary product: Proprietary Product Request Form
• To inform products database maintainer when a product arrives on fnkits.fnal.gov: Computing Division Product Input Form
• To add a product with special requirements to fnkits.fnal.gov: Special UPD Product Registration Form
• View the FermiTools Web page.

Historical Materials

• Overheads from the UPS/UPD Brown Bag Seminars given in June, 1998.
• UPS Design Overview, the working design document. (Related design documents can be found under the UPS Reconstruction pages).
• Obsolete: bootstrap_coreFUE, a self-contained pre-configured ups/upd/perl package which can be installed on new systems. Replaced by the much more automated bootstrap product. See Chapter 13: Bootstrapping CoreFUE.
• Obsolete: Installation and Upgrade Instructions for bootstrap_coreFUE.
• Obsolete: Fill-in-the-blank, a checklist of "answers to have on hand" when you begin the installation/upgrade (bootstrap_coreFUE) the first time.
• Obsolete: Instructions for installing ups/upd on an NT box running cygwin b19 or higher. June 1999: this is now obsolete; use the much more automated bootstrap product. See Chapter 13: Bootstrapping CoreFUE.
• Archived ups v3_4 internal documents. And the completely obsolete UPS v3.x and UPD v2.x documentation UNIX Product Methodology at Fermilab (also GU0014).