Re: The Helix Updater

[Vladimir Vukicevic <vladimir Intrepid Com>]

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
> 
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>   Rob Brown-Bayliss
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