More features for Helix Updater, and source?

[Stuart Donaldson <stu asyn com>]

On the topic of the updater, I tried to find the source on the helix site, and
it was not obvious where to look.  The RPM for the updater indicates it is
GPL'd so I would expect to be able to find it without too much trouble.

Also, on the topic of features:

It would be nice to have the ability to roll
my own update mirror.  In particular, I have several Linux systems, and
want to be able to download the RPM's once, and then point the updater
to my local repository which would likely be an internal ftp site.  I was
originally looking for the source to see if there was a way to do this easily.

It would be nice to have an option to save the RPM's locally, rather than
clearing them off of the system.  This would allow me to catch them in
a backup.

And a variant on the last one, is that it would be nice to be able to have an
option to auto-download the corresponding source RPM's, since I occasionally
want to go to the sources.

Thanks...

-- Stuart --



Matthew wrote:

> While we're throwing out ideas about the Helix installer, I'd like to put this
> forward:  How about making it modular so other projects can use the installer
> via plugins?  Example.  I'm the leader of the Orasoft project, and we currently
> have 4 apps available.  It would be nice if I could create an Orasoft Plugin
> for the Helix installer so that my users could take advantage of the
> network-based install and the update facilities.  On the opening screen I
> envision a clist with the installed "Project Plugins".  The user selects the
> appropriate project, be it Helix, Orasoft, or whatever, and then continues
> through the installer.
>
> Matthew
> Orasoft.Org
>
> On Sun, 04 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> > Thanks for the ideas, Rob! We are currently working on revamping the
> > installer and updater. The new version will have support for both
> > background and scheduled updates, as well as a bunch of other features to
> > make it easy to install and update on many different platforms.
> >
> >       - Vlad
> >
> > On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Rob Brown-Bayliss wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I was thinking about the helix updater and had an idea.
> > >
> > > It would be nice if I could start the update process and then have it
> > > run in the background, ignored forever so that I can logout and have the
> > > update continue.  At the moment I need to leave my machine logged in
> > > while it downloads.
> > >
> > > Then I had another idea.
> > >
> > > Wouldn't it be great if the updater can be run from cron, and
> > > automatically down load all updates, or all from a chosen category (like
> > > perhaps a security updates category?).  Of course for this to work the
> > > rpm process needs to be changed.  It's damn annoying installing an rpm
> > > and have it replace your config with the default.
> > >
> > > Then, this leads to another idea.
> > >
> > > How about having  the ability to select who to update from, I don't mean
> > > helix mirrors, but people like RedHat could setup to be upgraded from
> > > the helix updater (I, just point it to RedHat or whom ever and get your
> > > whole system fixed (or broken) overnight via the magic of cron.
> > >
> > > just some thoughts
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > >   Rob Brown-Bayliss
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