[osgeo4w-dev] Upgrade installed packages from command line

[Alex Mandel]

On 02/20/2012 10:11 AM, Alexander Bruy wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> is it possible to upgrade existing installation from command line
> by checking and downloading new versions for installed packages
> and upgrading them?
> 
> I can download new packages using this command
> 
> osgeo4w-setup.exe -q -a -D -l "D:\install\gis\osgeo4w\offline"
> 
> But I can't figure out how to upgrade my installation. Tried with this
> command
> 
> osgeo4w-setup.exe -q -local-install --root C:\OSGeo4W -l
> "D:\install\gis\osgeo4w\offline\http%3a%2f%2fdownload.osgeo.org%2fosgeo4w\release"
> 
> but it doesn't work.
> 
> 

I believe apt was introduced for this reason.
http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/wiki/pkg-apt

Thanks,
Alex