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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
