Keeping the system up-to-date

From GoboLinux Knowledge Base

There is a number of ways to keep your system up-to-date. GoboLinux provides some tools to check the versions you have installed against the latest available ones.

Manager is a graphical application that not only informs you of new versions of programs, but also provides a GUI for most of the system management scripts, including Compile. It is based on the Qt toolkit.

Freshen is a console application that checks for updated GoboLinux recipes and packages, with an output similar to "emerge" in Gentoo.

There are also some scripts in the Scripts package that provide some informational aid in this respect: SuggestUpdates, SuggestDuplicates, PrioritiseUpdates, with a script-friendly output.

For the curious (or tweakers), it's interesting to note that most of the programs mentioned above make use of some general helper scripts such as FindPackage and GetAvailable.

[edit] Subtopics:

1. System maintenance scripts
2. The Manager tool
3. The Freshen tool