auto update

When an install profile is packaged, it contains specific versions of its modules. This total package gets a version number.

e.g. Cool Profile v1.32 = module1 v1.19 + module2 v.3.48 + module3 v0.80

I heard that to maintain the integrity of the install profiles versioning system, its individual modules don't auto-update themselves like a module you've installed yourself would. If this is true, I understand the reasoning behind this, but can someone confirm if it's indeed true?

Hello all,

I'm trying to set up an online version of our local community TV.

Since all the files are images, I set up a views slideshow. In order to automatically import those images, my colleague set up a script that automatically updates the content of a specific folder through ftp. Thus, the content of the distant folder is deleted and the content of our local folder is uploaded. I then use Image Import to create nodes that can be used for the said slideshow.