Automatic Software/Date Update Distribution

[Brad Clements]

There are commercial applications that do this already .. is it less
expensive to re-invent the wheel and support it?

I'm not trying to be flippant.. Just wondering about the cost comparisons.


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"Tim Daneliuk" <tundra at tundraware.com> wrote in message
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> One of my clients has the following problem they'd like to solve.
> My server of choice would be FreeBSD 4.8-based and I'm wondering if
> anything like this written in Python already exists:
>
> 1) Company has about 100 traveling users who connect to their
>     home office via dialup and broadband.  Users are all running
>     Win/XP.
>
> 2) Company wants to create a software/data-update server which is
>     as automated (user-proof) and secure as possible.  The server
>     will sit behind a NATing firewall and have the appropriate ports
>     tunneled through for this service.
>
> 3) CVS and similar mechanisms are probably too complex for these
>     users.  They more-or-less need "one-button" access.  This could,
>     I suppose, be implemented with CVS with an appropriate front-end
>     script.
>
> 4) The company will take care of making the updates self-installing.
>     I just need to help them set up the server (easy), define a
>     process for staging and storing the updates on the server (easy),
>     and implementing the client-side mechanism (less clear).
>
> Does something like this exist?
>
> TIA,
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