CGarvey's Blog » patch http://cgarvey.ie/blog The personal blog of Irish mobile and web application developer, Cathal Garvey Tue, 18 Oct 2011 04:14:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Remotely applying IPCop patches from the command line http://cgarvey.ie/blog/archive/2008/07/29/remotely-applying-ipcop-patches-from-the-command-line/ http://cgarvey.ie/blog/archive/2008/07/29/remotely-applying-ipcop-patches-from-the-command-line/#comments Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:57:21 +0000 cgarvey http://cgarvey.ie/blog/?p=155 IPCop has a built in (although sometimes broken) download/apply UI for patches / security updates. However, it is broken sometimes, and there are times where it’s easier do it over SSH (slow, or unreliable connectivity, for example). Having Googled a bit, there wasn’t an immediate or obvious solution, so I dug around in the CGI scripts to see how it’s done.

Firstly, download the patch using wget, for example:
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ipcop/ipcop-1.4.21-update.i386.tgz.gpg?download

Then, move that patch as follows:
mv ipcop-1.4.21-update.i386.tgz.gpg /var/patches/patch.tgz.gpg

That destination file shouldn’t already exist, so if it does you may need to investigate why the previous patch wasn’t applied correctly.

Finally, apply the patch:
/usr/local/bin/installpackage --install

You’ll be prompted when the patch is applied. Reboot if the patch requires so.

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