I've been working on a set of shell scripts to help automate upgrading splunk. So far I've pretty much gotten working as far as downloading the installer (.deb in this case) and running through the upgrade. What I'd like to do now is make it check the installed version against the downloaded version and either update it if the downloaded version is newer or abort if the installed version is newer.
Also, if anyone has found a way to get a clean url, ie. http:///latest/release, instead of the mess you get now.
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