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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 17:08:49 -0400
To: Alan Dobkin <Alan AT ADobkin DOT Net>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: Automating Package Updates
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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 AT rfk DOT com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
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