Re: [zi] updating packages

On Tuesday 11 May 2004 05:47, Mark Sams wrote:
> The website stated that zzoss could upgrade itself.
> Does that mean that my application can be upgraded as
> well? I didn't see a "upgrade" button in the screen
> shots.

In the list of installed applications, there's an update button for each 
application- which means that every single app can be updated.

> Can the upgrade package be downloaded automatically?
> Either by the user selecting "download now" or
> somethign similiar?

Currently, you can only do an update based on an application bundle. An 
application bundle is a .tgz that contains all needed package archives (.tgz) 
the application is composed of, as well as the distribution and application 
XML descriptors. A bundle can be created with the dev tool built into the 
installer.

So basically, what can be done with the current 1.1.0dev1 release, is to 
provide bundles of new app versions for download. A user then clicks on the 
update icon of the specific application and imports the bundle to perform the 
update.

We are still working on the online update feature. It will allow to check for 
new versions of an application on a remote host, download and install it 
automatically.

> Thank you for any help you can provide.

No problem! I hope that was of help - feel free to aks if you have some more 
questions.

Sandro
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