Re: Independant (or free) updater ?

[Bob Smith <bob thestuff net>]

The plan, last I heard, was that Helix is going to release a
helix-update that will work with "chanels" provideing functionality like
you are asking for. http://primates.helixcode.com/~vladimir/rc/


> On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 11:32:11AM +0200, Philippe Roy wrote:
> > 
> > > > The 'helix code updater' is a nice sofware.
> > > > But, where are non-'helix code' softwares ?
> > > > In fact, for this mail I use Balsa (and I like it).
> > 
> > > I'm sorry, I'm not sure if I understand: do you mean an updater that
> > > updates just stock GNOME software instead of software from the Helix Code
> > > repository and mirrors?
> > 
> > Yes ! I never saw 'balsa' informations in 'helix code updater'.
> > 
> > 'helix code updater' use XML file : 
> > 
> > exemple for mirrors location : 
> > ftp://ftp.helixcode.com/pub/helix/mirrors.xml
> > 
> > exemple for updates informations for the 'Mandrake-6' distrib :
> > ftp://download.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/helix/distributions/Mandrake-6/updates.xml
> > 
> > If these files don't contain 'balsa' news, 'helix code updater' can't tell
> > about it.
> > I think it's easy to add others XML files for others softwares (defined by
> > user).
> > I think it's easy to add freshmeat news/update, gtk+ news/update and GNOME
> > news/update.
> 
>  Have a look at rpmfind tool, I actually already grow a 600MBytes
> database of XML metadata on packages.
>    http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/rpmfind.html
> 
> Daniel
> 
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