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Downloads:

405,659

Downloads of v 0.6.13.0:

381,006

Last Update:

10 Jun 2017

Package Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • Rob Reynolds

Tags:

chocolatey package automatic updater

Chocolatey Automatic Package Updater (for package maintainers)

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0.6.13.0 | Updated: 10 Jun 2017

Downloads:

405,659

Downloads of v 0.6.13.0:

381,006

Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • Rob Reynolds

Chocolatey Automatic Package Updater (for package maintainers) 0.6.13.0

Legal Disclaimer: Neither this package nor Chocolatey Software, Inc. are affiliated with or endorsed by Rob Reynolds. The inclusion of Rob Reynolds trademark(s), if any, upon this webpage is solely to identify Rob Reynolds goods or services and not for commercial purposes.

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Deployment Method: Individual Install, Upgrade, & Uninstall

To install Chocolatey Automatic Package Updater (for package maintainers), run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

To upgrade Chocolatey Automatic Package Updater (for package maintainers), run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

To uninstall Chocolatey Automatic Package Updater (for package maintainers), run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

Deployment Method:

NOTE

This applies to both open source and commercial editions of Chocolatey.

1. Enter Your Internal Repository Url

(this should look similar to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/)


2. Setup Your Environment

1. Ensure you are set for organizational deployment

Please see the organizational deployment guide

2. Get the package into your environment

  • Open Source or Commercial:
    • Proxy Repository - Create a proxy nuget repository on Nexus, Artifactory Pro, or a proxy Chocolatey repository on ProGet. Point your upstream to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/. Packages cache on first access automatically. Make sure your choco clients are using your proxy repository as a source and NOT the default community repository. See source command for more information.
    • You can also just download the package and push it to a repository Download

3. Copy Your Script

choco upgrade chocolateypackageupdater -y --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'" [other options]

See options you can pass to upgrade.

See best practices for scripting.

Add this to a PowerShell script or use a Batch script with tools and in places where you are calling directly to Chocolatey. If you are integrating, keep in mind enhanced exit codes.

If you do use a PowerShell script, use the following to ensure bad exit codes are shown as failures:


choco upgrade chocolateypackageupdater -y --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'" 
$exitCode = $LASTEXITCODE

Write-Verbose "Exit code was $exitCode"
$validExitCodes = @(0, 1605, 1614, 1641, 3010)
if ($validExitCodes -contains $exitCode) {
  Exit 0
}

Exit $exitCode

- name: Install chocolateypackageupdater
  win_chocolatey:
    name: chocolateypackageupdater
    version: '0.6.13.0'
    source: INTERNAL REPO URL
    state: present

See docs at https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/win_chocolatey_module.html.


chocolatey_package 'chocolateypackageupdater' do
  action    :install
  source   'INTERNAL REPO URL'
  version  '0.6.13.0'
end

See docs at https://docs.chef.io/resource_chocolatey_package.html.


cChocoPackageInstaller chocolateypackageupdater
{
    Name     = "chocolateypackageupdater"
    Version  = "0.6.13.0"
    Source   = "INTERNAL REPO URL"
}

Requires cChoco DSC Resource. See docs at https://github.com/chocolatey/cChoco.


package { 'chocolateypackageupdater':
  ensure   => '0.6.13.0',
  provider => 'chocolatey',
  source   => 'INTERNAL REPO URL',
}

Requires Puppet Chocolatey Provider module. See docs at https://forge.puppet.com/puppetlabs/chocolatey.


4. If applicable - Chocolatey configuration/installation

See infrastructure management matrix for Chocolatey configuration elements and examples.

Package Approved

This package was approved as a trusted package on 09 Jul 2020.

Description

ChocolateyPackageUpdater (chocopkgup) - your automatic package updating solution for package maintainers.

This works in conjunction with ketarin to keep the chocolatey packages you maintain automatically updated. So you don't even have to think about updating a package or keeping it up to date. It just happens. Automatically, in the background, and even faster than you could make it happen. It's almost as if you were the application/tool author.

See https://chocolatey.org/docs/automatic-packages for creating automatic packages.

FAQs

  1. Is it magic? I'm not sure.
  2. Does it work? Is like Schwarzenegger hard to spell?
  3. How does it work? See the project url for more information.
  4. Is it harder than maintaining a package myself? Not really. You pay an initial upfront cost, but it's small compared to maintenance over time.
  5. Is it perfect? Is anything?
  6. Is it free? Yes! As long as you release your packages openly at chocolatey.org, this is free! If you want to use it for private packages, you will need to pony up some $$.

tools\chocolateyInstall.ps1
$toolsDir = "$(Split-Path -parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition)" 
$installDir = Join-Path $toolsDir 'chocopkgup' 
$installDirBackup = $installDir.Replace("\lib\","\lib-bkp\")

$binRoot = Get-BinRoot
$oldInstallDir = Join-Path $binRoot 'ChocolateyPackageUpdater'
$oldInstallDirBackup = Join-Path $binRoot 'ChocolateyPackageUpdater.backup'

if ([System.IO.Directory]::Exists($oldInstallDir)) {
  Copy-Item "$($oldInstallDir)\chocopkgup.exe.config" "$installDir" -Force -Recurse
  Copy-Item "$($oldInstallDir)\chocopkgup.exe.config" "$installDirBackup" -Force -Recurse
  if (![System.IO.Directory]::Exists($oldInstallDirBackup)) {[System.IO.Directory]::CreateDirectory($oldInstallDirBackup)}
  Copy-Item "$($oldInstallDir)\*" "$oldInstallDirBackup" -Force -Recurse -ErrorAction Continue
  Write-Warning "Inspect and delete '$oldInstallDirBackup' - new install location is with package"
  [System.IO.Directory]::Delete($oldInstallDir, $true)
}
tools\chocopkgup\chocopkgup.exe
md5: 29D4E00F763A418DA5CD1651DEC3C59E | sha1: 880C775B7F8B0A308BF151EE260A14173105D02D | sha256: 50417DDD1A945581DB5056E4D85A596869E8753963691FA81DCA56C0CEB820CA | sha512: 86DFFC5217AD97A42C7BE927AB8E8679129675C5DA92947B85DC16A6BBB1AF51867AF515635CFC5533852C9F24E466854A6CD93E00455D08338AA6501379BE00
tools\chocopkgup\chocopkgup.exe.config
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>
  <appSettings>
    <add key="PackagesFolder" value="C:\code\mine\chocolateyautomaticpackages" />
    <add key="TokenReplaceFileSearchPattern" value="*.txt|*.nuspec|*.ps1|*.config" />
    <add key="PS1FileToExecute" value="ChocoPkgUp.ps1" />
    <add key="LatestPackageVersionOnly" value="true" />
  </appSettings>
  <startup>
    <supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.0" />
  </startup>
</configuration>
tools\chocopkgup\chocopkgup.exe.config.install.xdt
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration xmlns:xdt="http://schemas.microsoft.com/XML-Document-Transform">
  <appSettings>
    <add key="PackagesFolder" value="C:\code\mine\chocolateyautomaticpackages" xdt:Locator="Match(key)" xdt:Transform="InsertIfMissing" />
    <add key="TokenReplaceFileSearchPattern" value="*.txt|*.nuspec|*.ps1|*.config" xdt:Locator="Match(key)" xdt:Transform="InsertIfMissing" />
    <add key="PS1FileToExecute" value="ChocoPkgUp.ps1" xdt:Locator="Match(key)" xdt:Transform="InsertIfMissing" />
    <add key="LatestPackageVersionOnly" value="false" xdt:Locator="Match(key)" xdt:Transform="InsertIfMissing" />
  </appSettings>
</configuration>
tools\chocopkgup\ketarinupdate.cmd
@echo off
For /f "tokens=2-4 delims=/ " %%a in ('date /t') do (set mydate=%%c%%a%%b)
For /f "tokens=1-2 delims=/:" %%a in ("%TIME%") do (set mytime=%%a%%b)

"Ketarin.exe" /silent /log=C:\ProgramData\chocolateypackageupdater\ketarin.%mydate%_%mytime%.log
tools\chocopkgup\License.txt
Chocolatey Package Updater
Copyright (C) 2012-Present RealDimensions Software, LLC ("RDS")
===================================================================
Grant of License
===================================================================
You may use Chocolatey Package Updater with this notice and the provided license.xml file if you use it only to keep packages up to date on (and only on) the feed(s) for http://chocolatey.org. 

The use of feeds other than chocolatey.org ("proprietary feeds") is strictly prohibited.

You can use other means to copy said packages from chocolatey.org to proprietary feeds provided the following criteria are met:
 1. The packages on chocolatey.org are not hidden or otherwise unusable from the site and client(s) that would connect to chocolatey.org. 
 2. Packages are updated first on chocolatey.org prior to being copied to proprietary feeds.
 3. Packages must remain available on chocolatey.org indefinitely or until the package is no longer usable. 
 4. The package must be removed from proprietary feeds at the same time as the package is hidden on chocolatey.org.
 3. This is the only grant of private/proprietary use and subject to change at any time with or without notice.

If you would like to use this for private, proprietary, or other feeds that are not chocolatey.org, you must obtain a personal or commercial license to do so. To do that you must contact RDS at ferventcoder.com.

This software is not free to distribute and should only be packaged on authorized sources, such as but not limited to chocolatey.org. If you would like to distribute this software, you must receive written permission from the software owner.

===================================================================
End-User License Agreement
===================================================================
EULA - Chocolatey Package Updater 

IMPORTANT- READ CAREFULLY: This RealDimensions Software ("RDS") End-User License Agreement ("EULA") is a legal agreement between you("End User") and RDS for all RDS products, controls, source code, demos, intermediate files, media, printed materials, and "online" or electronic documentation ("SOFTWARE PRODUCT(S)") contained with this distribution. 

RDS grants to you as an individual, a personal, nonexclusive license to install and use the SOFTWARE PRODUCT(S) for the sole purposes of keeping packages up to date on the feed(s) of http://chocolatey.org ("chocolatey.org"). By installing, copying, or otherwise using the SOFTWARE PRODUCT(S), you agree to be bound by the terms of this EULA. If you do not agree to any part of the terms of this EULA, DO NOT INSTALL, USE, OR EVALUATE, ANY PART, FILE OR PORTION OF THE SOFTWARE PRODUCT(S). 

ALL SOFTWARE PRODUCT(S) are licensed not sold. If you are an individual, you must acquire an individual license for the SOFTWARE PRODUCT(S) from RDS or its authorized resellers. If you are an entity, you must acquire an individual license for each Developer End User and each Build Machine Running the SOFTWARE PRODUCT(S) within your organization from RDS or its authorized resellers. Both Virtual and Physical Build Machines running the SOFTWARE PRODUCT(S) must be counted in the SOFTWARE PRODUCT(S) licenses quantity of the organization.

===================================================================
Commercial / Personal Licensing
===================================================================
Chocolatey Package Updater is also offered under personal and commercial licenses.
You can learn more about this option by contacting RDS at http://ferventcoder.com
tools\chocopkgup\license.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<license id="d8e9752b-1cd2-443f-bc95-bf25954271bb" expiration="2018-06-02T00:00:00.0000000" type="Standard">
  <name>Chocolatey.org Updates Only - Bound By Licensing Agreement in License.txt File</name>
  <Signature xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#">
    <SignedInfo>
      <CanonicalizationMethod Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xml-c14n-20010315" />
      <SignatureMethod Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#rsa-sha1" />
      <Reference URI="">
        <Transforms>
          <Transform Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#enveloped-signature" />
        </Transforms>
        <DigestMethod Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#sha1" />
        <DigestValue>muWal+dJlO1USdMsNk/MdpzthwY=</DigestValue>
      </Reference>
    </SignedInfo>
    <SignatureValue>JDJ2IN7FT+i8u1jQaAyVdhJctN0g35+OCHas+osD7lYmoL/0EGdfsetdmWIGHzgHdCFJnhEEgyEG9F/oWp/A6kQEo98YybXQqv6bWM9fniHG7UjlvB/cUaMy7aZU3J2jlbyQp+3lpBrvIpbgh2KUFqz5IMkWUGmhEhzypWVGJdA=</SignatureValue>
  </Signature>
</license>

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Add to Builder Version Downloads Last Updated Status
Chocolatey Automatic Package Updater (for package maintainers) 0.6.12.0 2554 Tuesday, January 3, 2017 Approved
Chocolatey Automatic Package Updater (for package maintainers) 0.6.11.0 3168 Monday, August 22, 2016 Approved
Chocolatey Automatic Package Updater (for package maintainers) 0.6.10.0 546 Monday, August 22, 2016 Approved
Chocolatey Automatic Package Updater (for package maintainers) 0.6.9.0 712 Thursday, August 18, 2016 Approved
Chocolatey Automatic Package Updater (for package maintainers) 0.6.8.0 910 Thursday, June 30, 2016 Approved
Chocolatey Automatic Package Updater (for package maintainers) 0.6.7.0 1895 Thursday, December 31, 2015 Approved
Chocolatey Automatic Package Updater (for package maintainers) 0.6.6.0 1974 Tuesday, June 30, 2015 Approved
Chocolatey Automatic Package Updater (for package maintainers) 0.6.5.0 2062 Wednesday, February 18, 2015 Approved
Chocolatey Automatic Package Updater (for package maintainers) 0.6.4.0 1479 Thursday, January 1, 2015 Approved
Chocolatey Automatic Package Updater (for package maintainers) 0.6.3.0 614 Wednesday, December 31, 2014 Approved
Chocolatey Automatic Package Updater (for package maintainers) 0.6.2.0 2550 Monday, June 30, 2014 Approved
Chocolatey Automatic Package Updater (for package maintainers) 0.6.1.0 1796 Tuesday, October 22, 2013 Approved
ChocolateyPackageUpdater 0.6.0.0 620 Tuesday, October 22, 2013 Approved
ChocolateyPackageUpdater 0.5.6.0 1503 Sunday, February 24, 2013 Approved
ChocolateyPackageUpdater 0.5.5.0 673 Sunday, February 24, 2013 Approved
ChocolateyPackageUpdater 0.5.1.0 797 Thursday, January 3, 2013 Approved
ChocolateyPackageUpdater 0.5.0.0 800 Saturday, September 29, 2012 Approved

v0.6.13

  • Update license to 6/2/2018

v0.6.12

  • Update license

v0.6.11

  • Fix - Allow only keeping the latest of each package in the _output folder. This time with feeling.

v0.6.10

  • Fix - Allow only keeping the latest of each package in the _output folder.

v0.6.9

  • Allow prerelease versions passed in as the version string (- in the version or 1.0.0-beta1) - #12
  • Do not edit the version, pass in --beta - #18
  • Pass in checksumType and checksumTypex64 - #25
  • Only keep the latest files for each package in the _output folder - #5
  • Use the package directory instead of Get-BinRoot - #26

v0.6.8

  • Don't fail on invalid license until after packages are generated
  • Update license

v0.6.7

  • Update license

v0.6.6

  • Update license

v0.6.5

  • Use choco to push packages.

v0.6.4

v0.6.3

  • License does not expire until 06/30/2014

v0.6.2

  • License does not expire until 12/31/2014

v0.6.0

  • License does not expire until 6/30/2014
  • You can define a PS1 file in the package folder to be called by the updater just before packaging. Use it to download files or whatever else might be necessary. The file that it looks for is named ChocoPkgUp.ps1 by default.

v0.5.6

  • License does not expire until 12/31/2013
  • The output folder is now a subfolder "_output" of your package folder, allowing you to commit for others to look at later and provide fix pull requests.

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