Re: The Helix Updater

[Matthew <matthew advantio com>]

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
> > 
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