Hello, I do agree with Rugxulo. Just adding my 2cts regarding FDUpdate (I'm the one responsible for creating the monster).
> Since I too often don't have networking in native DOS, I've never > relied on FDupdate. Presumably it can (or could) do so, but I don't > know the specifics. I don't know if it updates your install or > (presumably) only the .ZIP files themselves. The idea of FDUpdate was to provide some kind of semi-graphical manager that would allow the average joe to add/update whatever packages in its system. To do so, FDUpdate downloads a list of available pakages from the FreeDOS repository (the URL of the repository is configurable via a configuration file), then it presents the list in a pseudo graphical menu with some descriptions about every package, and let the user to choose packages to install. FDUpdate is, however, just a nifty frontend. In the background it calls wget or htget (the downloader backend is configurable) to download the *.zip files into a temp directory, and then it calls FDPKG to install these zip files. All this would be great, but - as Rugxulo already noted - there is far too few packages online to make FDUPDATE actually useable in real life. There are also some minor (mostly cosmetic) bugs here and there, which I didn't ever cared to fix, as I quite quickly lost hope, as the whole packaging work was way more than what I could ever handle on my free time... and without packages, a packager is, well, useless. > Yes, you pretty much have to install or update things manually. I hate > to say it, but FDupdate seems like a failed experiment. Indeed. 'Failed experiment' is a term that describes FDUpdate quite accurately. Altough I prefer to think about it as a 'proof of concept' work ;) In other words - don't put any hope into using FDUPDATE for any serious update of your FreeDOS system. FDUPDATE will probably never be useable - unless suddenly there is an army of volunteers that starts massively populating the FDUPDATE repository (which is highly unlikely to ever happen anyway). Ciao, Mateusz ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
