Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 05:50:29 -0500 (EST)
From: Kirk Bauer <kirk@kaybee.org>
To: Hurricane List <hurricane-list@redhat.com>,
Subject: AutoRPM 1.2 (Already!)


Announcing AutoRPM 1.2!!

First of all, I would like to thank everybody who mailed me suggestions and
bug reports.  I made a bad assumption about the way RPM works that messed
up the actual installation of RPMs.  I think I have it working great new ;)
I got just about every suggestion I received implemented into this release...
including 2 man pages now!!

AutoRPM is a program that can do any combination of the following: mirror RPMs
from  an  FTP  site,  keep installed RPMs consistent with an FTP site or local
directory, and keep installed RPMs in a cluster or network of systems  consis-
tent.   It  is highly flexible... and if it can't do something, email me and I
will probably implement that too... ;)

*NOTE*
There has been one big bug fix plus some other changes since version 1.1.
See the bottom of this message for details.

NOTE:  The first time you run AutoRPM, you will probably get several
entries for your Interactive Install Queue, but once you Install, Upgrade
or Remove those entries, you will only get new entries in your Interactive
Install Queue when new RPMs are put in the updates directory.

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* For Red Hat Linux 5.0
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Get the non-achitecture-specific main program:
ftp://ftp.kaybee.org/pub/redhat/RPMS/noarch/autorpm-1.2-1.noarch.rpm

Get the Perl library needed:
ftp://ftp.kaybee.org/pub/redhat/RPMS/noarch/libnet-1.0502-4.noarch.rpm

And make sure you have the 'dialog' program that came with Red Hat Linux 5.0.
Oh, and you also need Perl.

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Keep those comments and questions coming!:

   Kirk Bauer <kirk@kaybee.org>


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Changes, Version 1.1 -> 1.2
- Fixed a few small bugs
- Renamed a few commands, and added several, check out the
  commented config file.
- Fixed the actual RPM installation procedures as they didn't
  always work.  I made some bad assumption about how RPM works
  and how it reports errors, but it should be better now.
- Added tons of small features and made the program more
  tolerant to some errors.
- Finally! - a man-page for the configuration file!

Changes, Version 1.0 -> 1.1
- Regex commands actually work now!
- Only offers to delete non-FTP files
- AutoRPM now *remembers* when you remove a file from the queue.
  It remembers exactly which remote file (including version and
  original location) and which local file (or locally installed
  RPM) that made the original entry that you removed and will
  not ask about that particular pair again.  Thanks to
  John Johnson <jdjohnso@nc.com> for this Auto-Ignore idea.
- Checks PGP signatures
- Added 'Allow_Delete' option to prevent you from accidentally
  deleting what you don't want to...

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Kirk Bauer -- Georgia Tech -- kirk@kaybee.org <== Finger for PGP
  http://www.kaybee.org/~kirk  ResNet RTA   Computer Engineering
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