Auto update

Auto update

[James B. Parker]

Is there some sort of auto-update feature in Linux?
Like some program I can run that checks my currently installed package
versions versus what is available and informs me if a newer version exists?
Or should I just memorize the version of every package I have installed?

How do others handle this?

See ya!
James B. Parker


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Re: Auto update

[Michael Schmitz]

> Is there some sort of auto-update feature in Linux?

apt-get update ?? :-) Maybe this should be packaged as RPM some day ...
There's something called autorpm to automatically scan for updates,
download them and probably even automatically install them. My site runs
autorpm for all but the install step.

	Michael


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Re: Auto update

[Stephen Edie]

James,

Yellow Dog Linux contains a program called 'YUP' (Yellow dog Update
Program) which has some of the functionality that you are interested in.
It is a work in progress so there's still some things to be worked out in
it, however, it does get the job done.

YUP works with Champion Server 1.2 and should be easily ported to other
RPM based distributions.  Vendors do need to run the archive generation
program in their FTP distribution in order for YUP to be able to update
from it.

Stephen

Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
 Yellow Dog Linux
 "The Ultimate Companion for a Dedicated Server"
 http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/

 Black Lab Linux
 Workstations and advanced, Parallel Solutions
 http://www.blacklablinux.com/

On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, James B. Parker wrote:

>
> Is there some sort of auto-update feature in Linux?
> Like some program I can run that checks my currently installed package
> versions versus what is available and informs me if a newer version exists?
> Or should I just memorize the version of every package I have installed?
>
> How do others handle this?
>
> See ya!
> James B. Parker
>
>
>
>


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Re: Auto update

[Dan Bethe]

--- "James B. Parker" <pajama1@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> Is there some sort of auto-update feature in Linux?
> Like some program I can run that checks my currently installed
> package
> versions versus what is available and informs me if a newer version
> exists?
> Or should I just memorize the version of every package I have
> installed?

	Get rpmfind.  You can find it at www.rpmfind.org or
ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/yellowdog/champion-1.2/ppc/YellowDog/RPMS/rpmfind-1.4-2.ppc.rpm
might work.
	Then use the following:

for i in `rpm -qa` ; do rpmfind --latest $i ; done

	That's really quick & dirty  :)
	If anyone thinks that this is a bad idea, perhaps if it is a waste of
global resources, then let us know!  I don't know how
resource-intensive rpmfind is.
	I don't understand why people say that RPM can't do automatic
retrievals and updates.  Usually, people compare it to Debian, saying
that Debian can do that and RPM can't.  You can substitute an ftp or
http URL just as easily as a filename, for any of RPM's operations --
getting info, installing, querying, and more.  And RPM can find them
for you in the first place.

=====
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only in your mind." -- http://www.dreamtheater.net/songb4.htm#IV5


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