Re: The Helix Updater

[Daniel Serodio <pennywise alp sol com br>]

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.

	Look for autorpm on freshmeat. Does all that and much more. PGP
signing, different actions for files from different servers, eg
automatically install securety update from RH but ask me before updating
other stuff, etc.
	If you don't mind messing with configuration files, this is the one.
But then again, you'll probably only have to set it up once and forget
about it.

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