Question about updates

rds_correia

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Question about updates

« on: November 20, 2005, 08:38:04 am »

This may sound silly but I have been asking myself this for a long time...
Imagine that 0.97.0 is release, that is, full-release.
Then imagine that after a couple of days we already have two updates, 0.97.2 and 0.97.4.
Now the real question is: can we just upgrade directly to 0.97.4 or do we need to first upgrade to 0.97.2 and only then to 0.97.4?
I have always loaded all the intermediate upgrades just to keep it on the safe side...
But occasionally it could save some minutes if I could patch it only with the latest upgrade and that's why I'm asking ;-).
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Re: Question about updates

« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2005, 11:01:00 am »

Anyone correct me if I'm wrong, but it is possible to simply upgrade to the latest release. The updates occur via a tarball that blindly updates all of the files. Whether this will change in the future and incorporate a "diff" process or something of that sort, I'm not certain. Thanks!

Mike


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Re: Question about updates

« Reply #2 on: November 20, 2005, 11:51:41 am »

All of this is temporary. We have a very smart binary diff update system that will handle updating. It's on our list to complete in the next couple weeks as we wind down from fixing bugs.


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rds_correia

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Re: Question about updates

« Reply #3 on: November 20, 2005, 04:52:39 pm »

Sorry to keep this topic running but English is not my native language... Roll Eyes

I'm still not 100% sure about this even after your comments on it Huh

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Simple question: if I have a WRAP 0.90 running on my box can I take the most recent 2..5 MB release update (let's say a 0.97) and update it without doing all the intermediate updates?


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Re: Question about updates

« Reply #4 on: November 20, 2005, 04:54:16 pm »

Quote from: rds_correia on November 20, 2005, 04:52:39 pm

Sorry to keep this topic running but English is not my native language... Roll Eyes

I'm still not 100% sure about this even after your comments on it Huh

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Simple question: if I have a WRAP 0.90 running on my box can I take the most recent 2..5 MB release update (let's say a 0.97) and update it without doing all the intermediate updates?

Yes. These are accumulative (think M$ service packs).


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rds_correia

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Re: Question about updates

« Reply #5 on: November 20, 2005, 05:06:04 pm »

Geee, thanks Scott.
That will definately save me a lot of time while upgrading my boxes Wink

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