On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 7:30 PM, Ron W <[email protected]> wrote:

> Assuming "basic" shell tools and wget (or similar tool), I would define a
> report, in Fossil, to provide the commit ID of the latest, properly tagged
> commit. Fetch this report with wget, piping the output to grep to extract
> the commit ID. Then compare this to the commit ID of the currently
> "installed" software. If they match, you're done. Otherwise, format a URL
> and use wget to fetch the tar/zip file.
>

Follow up:

This would require the commit ID of the software be incorporated in to the
build of the application so that the application can identify the commit it
was built from.

(This is so much a part of our processes I sometimes forget that not
everyone thinks to do this.)
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