Hello Greg,
Thank you for your quick response. I have another, related question.
I understand that there is an Amazon-Cloud version of Galaxy called CloudMan, where tool updates are taken care of for the users.
Does CloudMan take care of its own updates? If so, how often do the tools get updated?
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Ravi Sanka
ICS - Bioinformatics Engineer
J. Craig Venter Institute
301-795-7743
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From: Greg Von Kuster [mailto:greg@bx.psu.edu]
Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 3:24 PM
To: Sanka, Ravi
Cc: galaxy-bugs@bx.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [galaxy-bugs] tool updates for local installation
Hello Ravi,
At the current time, it is up to the owner of the Galaxy instance to look at the Galaxy tool shed for updates, and pull them to their local instance. Regarding 3rd party dependencies, it is again the responsibility of the owner of the Galaxy instance to handle the dependencies. This will change at some point in the future, at which point we'll let you know of the changes.
Thanks for your interest!
On Jun 17, 2011, at 3:02 PM, Sanka, Ravi wrote:
My name is Ravi Sanka. I have a question for maintaining tools on a local installation of Galaxy.
What happens one or more updates are available for the tools that are part of the Galaxy community? Is it the client’s responsibility to search for updates of each tool on his install? Or do update alerts get sent by Galaxy to keep the tools at the most recent version?
And what about those tools that are part of the Galaxy community but use third-party software (i.e. NCBI Blast+)? Is it the same for them, or does a different procedure apply?