selfupdate

Documentation

Overview

Package selfupdate wraps github.com/creativeprojects/go-selfupdate to let websentinel update its own binary from GitHub releases.

Index

• Constants
• func Update(ctx context.Context, currentVersion string) (string, error)

Constants

const Repository = "sig9org/websentinel"

Repository is "owner/repo" on GitHub, where release binaries are published (see Taskfile.yml build-all for the naming convention).

Functions

func Update

func Update(ctx context.Context, currentVersion string) (string, error)

Update checks GitHub for a release newer than currentVersion and, if found, replaces the running binary in place. It reports the outcome as a human-readable message.