[TYPO3-dev] EM - Autoupdate Extension

[Michael]

On 27/01/13 09:14, Jigal van Hemert wrote:

> Both for extensions and core updates we have seen situations in the past
> where automatic updates would not be the success you'd hope for.

I agree with Phillip and Jigal. An "auto-update" functionality makes
sense for a standardized system. TYPO3 is always customized: you can not
predict how it has been configured, which extensions have been installed
and if an extension or core update could clash with a specific version
of another extension or configuration.

Even if an extension developer would have the option to mark his/her
extension as "autoUpdateable" - what does that mean? Update-able from
which version? What's about new dependencies to other extensions, etc.?

> You can use extensions like caretaker to monitor multiple TYPO3
> installations and get notifications if updates are needed.

...or use a monitoring system such as Nagios [1] and the ext:nagios for
TYPO3 [2] which monitors much more than just the TYPO3 core and
extensions but also the server, network, other services running on the
server, etc. :-)

> For core updates you can create scripts that do the
> download-unpack-change_symlink actions for several installations.

In fact, in most cases it's only executing a few commands on the command
line, double-checking the backend ("DB compare" in the Install Tool) and
maybe clearing the cache. Sometimes this also works for extension
updates, but again: this is not predictable and I prefer spending 5 to
10 minutes in manually checking each site instead of receiving support
requests from clients who complain about a broken TYPO3 instance.


Cheers
Michael

[1] http://www.nagios.org
[2] http://schams.net/nagios