[TYPO3-dev] EM - Autoupdate Extension

[Kay Strobach]

Hello Together,

coreupdate uses a scheduler task to check if the installed version
matches the latest patch release!

If not it creates a warning in the reports mail.

The idea of the extension is to make the described change of the link
with an easy to use interface (NOT automatically ;)

No automatic updates are not good for big sites, but clickable updates
can make things easier :D

Regards
Kay

Am 27.01.13 01:27, schrieb 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
> 


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