                                embossupdate



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Function

   Checks for more recent updates to EMBOSS

Description

   embossupdate checks for the latest EMBOSS updates and reports if a more
   recent version is available.

Algorithm

   The EMBOSS webite maintains a page for the latest release with all
   fixes available as patches or as new distributions.

   embossupdate reads this page and reports a description of any changes
   and instructions for updating. These are read from the updates page and
   subject to change.

   If no later version is found embossupdate reports success.

Usage

   Here is a sample session with embossupdate


% embossupdate
Checks for more recent updates to EMBOSS

EMBOSS 6.5.6.0 is the latest version (6.5.0.0)


Command line arguments

Checks for more recent updates to EMBOSS
Version: EMBOSS:6.5.6.0

   Standard (Mandatory) qualifiers: (none)
   Additional (Optional) qualifiers:
   -outfile            outfile    [stdout] EMBOSS update output file

   Advanced (Unprompted) qualifiers: (none)
   Associated qualifiers:

   "-outfile" associated qualifiers
   -odirectory         string     Output directory

   General qualifiers:
   -auto               boolean    Turn off prompts
   -stdout             boolean    Write first file to standard output
   -filter             boolean    Read first file from standard input, write
                                  first file to standard output
   -options            boolean    Prompt for standard and additional values
   -debug              boolean    Write debug output to program.dbg
   -verbose            boolean    Report some/full command line options
   -help               boolean    Report command line options and exit. More
                                  information on associated and general
                                  qualifiers can be found with -help -verbose
   -warning            boolean    Report warnings
   -error              boolean    Report errors
   -fatal              boolean    Report fatal errors
   -die                boolean    Report dying program messages
   -version            boolean    Report version number and exit


Input file format

   embossupdate reads a page from the EMBOSS website at
   http://emboss.open-bio.org/updates/EMBOSS.fixes for a Unix version, and
   http://emboss.open-bio.org/updates/mEMBOSS.fixes for Windows releases.

Output file format

   embossupdate reports any more recent updates, or reports that the
   current version is up to date.

Data files

   None.

Notes

   None.

References

   None.

Warnings

   None.

Diagnostic Error Messages

   None.

Exit status

   It always exits with status 0.

Known bugs

   None.

See also

                    Program name                Description
                    embossdata    Find and retrieve EMBOSS data files
   embossversion    Report the current EMBOSS version number

Author(s)

   Peter            Rice
   European         Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus,
   Hinxton,         Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK

                    Please report all bugs to the EMBOSS bug team
                    (emboss-bug (c) emboss.open-bio.org) not to the original author.

History

Target users

                    This program is intended to be used by everyone and everything, from
                    naive users to embedded scripts.

Comments

                    None
