Re: [Chicken-users] Egg: chicken-update (program)

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

Hi Diego,

On Tue, 01 Oct 2019 04:59:10 +0000 Diego via Chicken-users <address@hidden> 
wrote:

> I've created a simple program to update outdated eggs. At the moment,
> it only works with the default servers, as it looks through the egg
> RSS sxml file to determine new versions. By default, it ignores eggs
> with 'unknown' version (with a toggle to try installing them, alerting
> you if not found upstream), and you can pin eggs by regex. Other
> options are passed to chicken-install.
>
> I've tested with test-new-egg, here's the release file url:
>
> https://code.dieggsy.com/chicken-update/plain/chicken-update.release-info
>
> It's probably possible to talk to the server directly and support
> custom egg servers in the future, but ATM the only way I can think of
> doing it is to query the server for each egg's version (as henrietta
> doesn't support listing all eggs with the latest version), and that
> seems like it could be slow and expensive, esp. with more eggs
> installed.

Thanks.  Your egg has been added to the coop.

All the best.
Mario
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