I have completed enough of the SoftwareUpdater application to consider
it worthy of a developer release #1. Please test it if you are able. I
*highly* recommend that you test on a copy of a Haiku install. This is
very easy by creating a new partition, and running the Installer
application to create a copy of a current running Haiku instance to the
new partition. Then run Bootman to create a bootup menu entry for the
new partition. Boot to that partition and test away!
This was built using hrev50622 on gcc2hybrid and I have successfully
updated two of my gcc2h instances from hrev50622 and hrev50837 to
hrev50970. The application gives you the opportunity to cancel the
updates up until the point after the last package has been downloaded.
I have not had an opportunity to test the problem solver at all yet.
For comparison to pkgman, if you run it via the terminal you will also
see output identical to what pkgman does however all prompts for user
input are via the status window.
Pre-built Binary:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8n9qMefrOQJVXFobGRFOTR4RzA
Source:
https://github.com/Perelandra0x309/haiku/tree/updater/src/apps/softwareupdater
-Brian
