From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Jun 12 15:09:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA26975 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 15:09:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason04.u.washington.edu (root@jason04.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA26909 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 15:08:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul5.u.washington.edu (root@saul5.u.washington.edu [140.142.83.3]) by jason04.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id PAA26486 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 15:08:36 -0700 Received: from s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul5.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.04) with SMTP id PAA16966 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 15:08:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 14:58:16 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: autoupdate binaries transparently In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> how impossible would it be to auto-update a user's binary >> installations over the net? that would be a nice feature. Not impossible at all. In fact, it is might already be installed on your system. CVSUP and cron can do this just fine. I seem to recall something about "the unix way". Unix contains lots of tools that are very good at one small task. Put them all together and you get incredible flexibility and power. Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ | 206-633-5994 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message