I think it would be very easy to publish the RPM releases into a RPM repository so any YUM or APT users will be able to use in order to obtain automatic update.
All you have to do is to run thin on linux
mkdir -p /var/cache/createrepo
chown -R apache:apache /mnt/dfs/repository
chmod -R 600 /mnt/dfs/repository/*.rpm
createrepo -q --cachedir /var/cache/createrepo/ /mnt/dfs/repository
Put this into a bash script and put in crontab or run it whenever you drop a new RPM in the /mnt/dfs/repository
Pass #2: publish /mnt/dfs/repository on a web server and don’'t forget to permit file index
Pass #3: configure apache
Alias /repository/ “/mnt/dfs/repository/”
Pass #4 (optional) include yum repository in RPM so it will configure yum on first rpm install (cool!)
/etc/yum.repos.d/openfire.repo
name=Openfire Repository
baseurl=http://www.igniterealtime/repository/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
I hope somebody will transform this into a record on tracker