Nil, it's a little more often than every six months, I count 19
releases since it went gold 3 years ago... that's almost once every 2
months.

My concern is not whether it's easy (well, I guess my original post did
say that , so it is a little bit), my concern is whether is can be
done automatically. Small company, no IT department to keep track of
this sort of thing. I don't want anything as critical as patching to
require manual intervention. 'cause if it does, it'll get forgotten.

Now, since it sounds "easy", has anyone scripted it... I'm thinking an
automatic uninstall/installed triggered from an RSS feed.

On 11 Jul 2005, mark.birenbaum@gmail.com wrote in
news:1121131697.045738.49550@g44g2000cwa.googlegro ups.com:

> My concern is not whether it's easy (well, I guess my original
> post did say that , so it is a little bit), my concern is
> whether is can be done automatically.

There's no official way of doing that. But do you really want it done
automatically? If I was in a production environment, I absolutely
wouldn't want any of my server software to be updated without me
waiting and watching for other people to find the bugs. On my home
server, I wouldn't mind as much for things to go to hell after a
botched update or a buggy release, but in a business...? That's not the
place to be on the bleeding edge, IMO. Apache releases have been stable
and updated painless, but you never know what's going to happen in the
future.

> Now, since it sounds "easy", has anyone scripted it... I'm
> thinking an automatic uninstall/installed triggered from an RSS
> feed.

Sounds like an interesting project. Good luck!