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Re: DIETY: Automagically enhanced.



> I was thinking about maybe an argument for diety so it can be added to
> cron.weekly to check for updated packages and *optionally* automatically
> download it with an email to root about the update including the
> description and dependancies. In addition add the ability to mark
> *specific* packages for always auto or always manual download. 
> 
> Maybe further complicate it :) with auto-install (a stretch maybe?), maybe
> for only specially marked packages that won't cause problems if installed
> in the background.

Maybe an extension/modification of the perl CPAN module would work
for this (it downloads/builds/tests/installs perl modules from the
distributed CPAN archives and can tell you what modules have been
updated beyond your installed versions).

Les Mikesell
  les@mcs.com


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