Auto-update client on new (stable) release

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Message 19269 - Posted: 7 Aug 2008, 3:24:25 UTC

I've got a couple of machines that I've got BOINC running pretty much set-n-forget with (BAM BoincStats to see what they are doing when I remember but that's it) ... I'd love to have the client auto-update to the latest and greatest when it's released so I don't have to know (or care) what's going on.

Sure, it's lazy and marks me out as not really being a geek but I just want to donate some cycles and not really have to care about it ;) Oh, and yes, it's the Windows client I want updating.

Not sure if it makes it harder but I run as service on all the machines. One is a Windows Home Server and the others are my wife and daughters desktop machines so I just want it running (getting out of the way when they want to use their machine) with no intervention...
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Message 19306 - Posted: 7 Aug 2008, 22:52:27 UTC - in response to Message 19269.  

I've got a couple of machines that I've got BOINC running pretty much set-n-forget with (BAM BoincStats to see what they are doing when I remember but that's it) ... I'd love to have the client auto-update to the latest and greatest when it's released so I don't have to know (or care) what's going on.

That has already been in the works a while ago, but there are security issues, so I think it's mostly abandoned.
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