platform-update-home/doc/working/update-policy.html

Parent Directory Parent Directory | Revision Log Revision Log | View Patch Patch

revision 1.2, Mon Jun 23 22:32:26 2003 UTC revision 1.3, Mon Jun 23 22:35:10 2003 UTC
# Line 37  Line 37 
37  update site on a server connected to the company's LAN (behind the firewall).  update site on a server connected to the company's LAN (behind the firewall).
38  The update site would be a subset of the product's update site on the Internet  The update site would be a subset of the product's update site on the Internet
39  because it would contain only features and plug-ins related to the updates that  because it would contain only features and plug-ins related to the updates that
40  the company wants to apply at the moment. Technically, this site would be a  the company wants applied at the moment. Technically, this site would be a
41  regular Elipse update site with site.xml, feature and plug-in archives.</p>  regular Elipse update site with site.xml, feature and plug-in archives.</p>
42  <p>Administrators would construct this site in two ways:</p>  <p>Administrators would construct this site in two ways:</p>
43  <ol>  <ol>
44    <li>Product support teams would make the zip file of the particular readily    <li>Product support teams would make the zip file of the update site readily
45    available for this particular purpose. Administrators would simply need to    available for this particular purpose. Administrators would simply need to
46    download the zip file using the tool of their choice and unzip it in the local    download the zip file from the product support web page using the tool of
47    server. This approach is useful for very large zip files that require modern    their choice and unzip it in the local server. This approach is useful for
48    restartable download managers (those that can pick up where they left in case    very large zip files that require modern restartable downloading managers
49    of the connection problems).</li>    (those that can pick up where they left off in case of the connection
50      problems).</li>
51    <li>Eclipse Update would provide a wizard that can browse remote update sites    <li>Eclipse Update would provide a wizard that can browse remote update sites
52    and allow administrators to select updates and fixes to download. The behavior    and allow administrators to select updates and fixes to download. The behavior
53    would be very similar to the current update search wizard up to the install    would be very similar to the current update search wizard up to the install

Legend:
Removed from v.1.2  
changed lines
  Added in v.1.3