Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20020411170736.0576a018@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 17:08:49 -0400 To: Alan Dobkin , cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: Automating Package Updates In-Reply-To: <3275699787.1018542310@ADobkin-1.US.Nortel.Com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 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/