| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a distribution system for registering a package including a plurality of pieces of firmware of an image forming apparatus, and for controlling the automatic update of specific firmware on the basis of information indicating whether to permit the update of the specific firmware.SOLUTION: A distribution system 133 is configured to register a firmware package including information of firmware common to a plurality of types of network devices and information of firmware to be used uniquely to the type of the network device and information of special firmware to be used uniquely to the type of the network device and to be used for a specific purpose, and to accept and register a setting file in which control information for controlling the propriety of the automatic update of the firmware included in the package is described, and to accept setting information related to the automatic update from a network device 131. The distribution system 133 automatically distributes the information of the updatable firmware to the network device 131 in accordance with the control information and the setting information. |
