Ideas for a Remote Update solution

[Kevin Welsh]

I'm looking for experience / ideas around an update system. I could pull source from GitHub.

 

I could package up zips, pull them with wget, unzip and overwrite files in the file system with the contents of the zip. Maybe include a script_pre.sh and script_post.sh to run before and after the file copy/replace routine.

 

Any other ideas, suggestions, frameworks?

[Igor]

Updating what? What's wrong with current updating system?

[Kevin Welsh]

Oh, sorry that I wasn't clear. Updating custom code running on the system on remote devices.

[Igor]

If you use Debian based distro, pack thing into .deb files and create repository. On others use theirs default packaging system. It's designed for such work ... perhaps it's not noob easy but it's a right way to do it.