Updating DriversPacks

[Frank]

So I'm working on a way to automate downloading new DriverPacks updates, but I'm not coming up with a solution I find acceptable.  What sucks is DriverPacks no longer hosts the files, nor does anyone else that I'm aware of.  So perhaps you guys can help with some logistics.

What I have so far:
Monitor DriverPacks site for version changes of each DP Section (WLAN, LAN, etc.)

Download the torrent on change

execute the torrent through a portable version of µTorrent to a predefined folder.

Issues:

File names are different each version, and since the collections of packs are a bit large I would want to remove the old pack.  This is a bit of a problem since Ketarin has no way committing with µTorrent to see if the download was successful to know if it should delete the older version.  Also I have no way of getting the old file name so I would have to use a wildcard for each pack (i.e. "del DP_CableModem_wnt6-x86*.7z" BEFORE copying.

Anyone have any suggestions?  Also this method isn't very flash drive friendly as it will take a while.

Thanks,

  Frank

[Simon]

Hi,

It may help or not but there is a pre-packaged version of the driver packs here:

  http://drp.su/download.htm

Still a Torrent download though (3 GBytes)

Just one download to worry about though!? :-)

Kind Regards

Simon

[Frank]

Thanks, but this is what I'm trying to update.  They don't update their packs unless they update their app from what I can tell.  I have personally updated a dozen or so packs from my initial download just a couple weeks ago.  What I want to do is automate download the packs and store them in the path DRP is expecting them to be in.  It does identify that there is a pack change and enumerates the new drivers which is nice, but it's getting them without having to go to DriverPacks site and either d/l everything or compare versions to what's already downloaded and download/replace what is new.  It's quite time consuming.

[Synapse Systems]

Hi Frank, so you update driver from DRP. My intention is to do the same but i don't know how to do. In the folder dev_db there are a lot of .hash file related at all .txt. How you generate new .hash file for the new driver?

[Frank]

It's been a while but if I remember correctly I just replaced the folders in one of the directories that has the driver repositories.  There is another folder with nothing but INI files that are in the root of the archives. I replace them with the new INI files.  This has worked for me so far.  

[Xander / Prompt Care]

http://www.technibble.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43162

[Kevin]

I have been using Ketarin to download the torrent from driverpacks.net and then launch uTorrent to download.  I have a variable in Ketarin so it will only download newer torrents, but I don't know how to remove the older driverpacks when newer ones are downloaded - same problem as Xander mentions on the Technibble link - you get a build up of outdated drivers.  Any ideas?

Ketarin .xml uploaded for reference...