From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 4 11:17:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCBCB37B66C for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 11:17:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA24168; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 12:17:20 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA01838; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 12:17:19 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate) Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 12:17:19 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200010041817.MAA01838@nomad.yogotech.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: Warner Losh , nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Automatic updates (was Re: How long for -stable...) In-Reply-To: <92172.970683298@winston.osd.bsdi.com> References: <200010041802.MAA38253@harmony.village.org> <92172.970683298@winston.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I think that we can do a lot with cvsupd. I've used cvsupd to grab > > binaries on an experimental basis and it seems to work great. I've > > Hmmm. Does cvsupd also move a target out of the way if it already > exists and it's in the process of replacing it? What if the target is > chflag'd but can be unprotected at the current security level? I know the author, and I'll bet you he could be convinced to modify it to do what we need. *grin* Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message