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Re: Automating Package Updates
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- To: Alan Dobkin <Alan at ADobkin dot Net>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 17:08:49 -0400
- Subject: Re: Automating Package Updates
At 04:25 PM 4/11/2002, Alan Dobkin wrote:
>Has anyone developed a mechanism to notify and automatically
>update Cygwin packages on deployed systems? I've searched
>the list and haven't seen anything like this yet, so I'm
>working on a perl script do it, which I will share if
>there is interest. The idea is similar to RedHat's RHN/
>up2date program for Linux. But if something like this
>already exists for Cygwin, then I won't reinvent the wheel.
>
>The script I'm working on requires Cygwin to already be
>installed, so it's not intended as a replacement for the
>setup program, and it would probably no longer be needed
>once there is a command-line setup. It also requires perl
>to run, along with bzip and tar for package installation,
>ssmtp for e-mail notification, and cron for automation.
>It compares setup's installed.db file with the latest
>setup.ini to determine what has changed. If it updates
>any packages, it revises the entries in installed.db and
>the package contents files in /etc/setup to keep setup
>happy for future manual updates with the GUI.
I haven't seen any reports of such a utility for Cygwin. If
you're interested, go for it!
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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