re:Idea for automatic update of modules...
>What if Debian had a utility that you could run that would
>connect to one of the machines at debian.org or wherever and check
>the version numbers of all of the packages installed on the user's
>system. For example:
Grab 'dftp' available in the distribution under contrib/tools/dftp-1.1.csh.
Just rename it to "dftp". It keeps an installation up to date with an FTP
site.
Do "dftp (no parameters)" for usage or "dftp -help" for lots of info. A
perl version is in the works.
>Hell, you could even have the utility optionally
>run dpkg on the packages after it downloads them.
Done.
Brian
( bcwhite@bnr.ca )
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