[drupal-support] Automatic updates check and upgrades

Hi all, I use drupal for a long time and performed several upgrades. I just think would it be better to automate update using some "check for update" button. Is it too lame? Also each time I need to rewrite conf.php file after untarring archive which is not handy. Since this info doesn't change during upgrades I propose to rename conf.php to config.php and store there persistent information which will not be rewritten by installing a new source. Regards, Andrei