Conary:Presentations and Whitepapers

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rPath developers have published whitepapers and periodically give presentations about Conary.

Whitepapers

The following whitepapers have been published about Conary. Note publish dates as concepts and features may be developed and extended over time:

• An Introduction to the Conary Software Provisioning System: A broad overview of Conary's goals; read this first to understand what problems Conary is designed to solve (PDF).

• Repository-based System Management Using Conary: An overview of the technology and high-level design of Conary (PDF).

• Building Linux Software with Conary: This paper describes best practices in Conary packaging

Upcoming presentations

Conary presentations occur periodically at conferences, user group meetings, and the like. Below is information on upcoming presentations and highlights from past presentations:

• February 23/24 2008: Conary Packaging: Simply Powerful FOSDEM 2008, Brussels, Belgium.

Past presentations

• July 24, 2004: New approaches in software provisioning and system maintenance, 2004 Linux Symposium, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Audio is available (along with instructions for listening), including smaller, lower quality and larger, higher quality recordings.
  • Download the slides (PDF)

• August 28, 2004: Repository-Based System Management Using Conary, Central Ohio Linux User Group, Westerville, Ohio, USA

• June 9, 2005: Conary, TriLUG, Raleigh, NC.
  • View the slides.

• July 20, 2005: Building Linux Software with Conary, Linux Symposium, Ottawa, Canada.
  • Download the slides (PDF)

• Nov 15, 2005: So you want to build a distro (and maintain it and use it) Greensboro Linux Users' Group, Greensboro, NC.
  • Download the slides (PDF)

• Jul 20, 2006: Packaging With Conary, Linux Symposium, Ottawa, Canada.
  • Download the slides (PDF)

• Sep 30, 2006: Introduction to rBuilder and Conary, Ohio LinuxFest 2006, Columbus, Ohio
  • Download the slides (PDF)

• Sep 12, 2007: rPath Makes Appliances Easy, Michigan!/usr/group

• Sep 29, 2007: rPath Makes Appliances Easy, Ohio LinuxFest 2007, Columbus, Ohio