----Original Message----
>From: Ken Dibble
>Sent: 28 July 2005 11:48
> Checking to see if a new version available assumes an internet connection.
> My opinion is that this would play havoc with dial-up users.
Besides, who wants cygwin to phone home? That's waaay too much like
windoze!
> If this is something you want, here is a hack to accomplish it.
> I'm sure there are better, cleaner ways to do this and it will break
> as soon as something in the package list changes, but it's 5 am
> and I am not ready to think yet.
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> #Igor's whichpkg
> function whichpkg() {
> wget -qO- "http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=$1"; | \
> sed -ne '/Cygwin Package List/,${s#</\?[^<]*>##g;p}'
> }
>
> LATEST=`whichpkg cygwin | grep "emulation" | tail -1 | awk -F "-"
> '{print $2}'`
> CUR=`uname -a | awk '{print $3}' | awk -F"(" '{print $1}'`
> if [ $CUR != $LATEST ]; then
> echo "new cygwin dll version "$LATEST" available"
> else
> echo "Your cygwin dll is current"
> fi
Here's my hack, which extracts LATEST from the cygwin.com frontpage list
of dll release announcements:
LATEST=`wget -q -O - http://cygwin.com/ | grep "New Cygwin DLL" | sed -e
's/^.*New Cygwin DLL \([0-9.-_]*\).*$/\1/' | head -1`
...after that you'd set CUR and compare them in the same way.
cheers,
DaveK
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