[gobolinux-users] Idea: Auto-Update from fresh sources

[teique]

hey nice, as soon I turn to it I will spend some time on it,
thx pointing it out I didnt know about :)

I let idea maturate a bit, now I believe the best answear seems to be a 
SVN/CVS based recipe, tho I am still not sure how valuable is the effort 
on this way heh XD

My main concern is about iddle CPU/InternetDownloadBandwidth while these 
could be doing stuff to easy my time at computer, or do anything usefull 
in anyway even not to myself...
I'm still after ideas, may be there is some project out there that can 
make some usefull use of this iddleness heh.

I "heard" about a project that captures outer space radio waves and uses 
computers all over the world to try to figure out if there is some 
intelligence on them, well it didnt appeal too much to me so I didnt 
join, I mean if there is some other stuff that can catch my attention I 
will :)


Michael Homer wrote:
> On 12/31/06, teique <teique at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> If I remember well, there is some scripts that can perform the GoboLinux
>> distro update (all packages) based on pre-compiled packages or even
>> recipes right? Or it is still being implemented?
>>     
> You can try Freshen. I don't know if it still works, but it and cron
> could be set up to do most of what you're getting at. You'd need to
> modify it a bit to let you set a download command (so you could add
> --limit-rate), and write a wrapper to work out an appropriate speed
> and poll.
>
> Its dependency resolution is, to be kind, poor to nonexistent. I
> wouldn't recommend using it for a system upgrade that was going to do
> anything important (new glibc at the least, although that might be
> fixed up in Scripts now). It performs upgrades in arbitrary order and
> may install some things more than once if they were an unmet
> dependency of a previous install.
>
> I am happy to help anybody who wants to work on updating Freshen -
> some chunks of code are pretty poorly-written, although it shouldn't
> be too hard to follow. Failing that, I might give it a go myself
> sometime, although I don't have a recent and working Gobo system to
> develop it on at the moment, so don't hold your breath.
> -Michael
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