Jeff Turner wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 05:25:37PM +1100, David Crossley wrote:
> ...
>
>>>I'm not proposing to do this right now.. just floating the idea. What
>>>I'd _really_ like to have is a .deb or RPM-like system where signed jars
>>>contain updates, and a META-INF/control.xml Ant script directs how to
>>>apply the update. Updates would be applied in a sandbox (after verifying
>>>the jar signature) to keep things secure. Perhaps JWS has something like
>>>this.. so many wheels to reinvent, so little time :P
>>
>>This would be an excellent capability for Forrest to have.
>>
>>Is it possible for Anteater to be distributed with Forrest?
>>Then Forrest can just utilise various Anteater capabilities
>>and we can concentrate on inventing other wheels.
>
>
> Anteater currently has just a straightforward chained Ant script system,
> not the fancy signed jar system described above.
>
> Nicola mentioned being able to download skins.. that is another good
> application of an update system: 'anteater-update <skin name>'.
>
> The driver is a 20 line script.. I'll check it in and we'll see if it
> proves useful.
look at the ruper task in krysalis. Ruper=Remote Updater.
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