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Self-update leaves behind ".bak" copy

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After a self-update a copy of the old version is left behind like `Unvanquished Updater.app.bak`. Need to check if this happens on other OSes too.

slipher

Add a way to uninstall somehow

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This doesn't need to be part of the updater, but we should provide a way to uninstall the game somehow.

necessarily-equal

idea: command line switch for headless update

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For server owners, would be cool to be able to do: ./updater --no-gui --install-path=/some/where I don't know yet if `--no-gui` would just check for update and download things or must...

illwieckz

Unsupported image format (.gif)

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When starting the updater/launcher, the image of the latest blog post loads endlessly.  The following error is displayed in the terminal: `qrc:/NewsCard.qml:15:5: QML Image: Error decoding: http://www.unvanquished.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/20200908.unvanquished-freedom-granger-celebration.gif: Unsupported image...

mole99

This is a thread about various issues that may prevent the updater build to have bit-to-bit equality with another updater build.

illwieckz

Fuse the two desktop files

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There are no real reason to have two desktop files instead of one. Maybe we can have dæmon understand `daemon unv://…` as `daemon -connect unv://…` (This is a bit of...

necessarily-equal

I was talking with some lutris people about how to integrate properly our updater in lutris. Unvanquished is available in lutris there: https://lutris.net/games/unvanquished/ Currently, the installation is version-specific. As game...

illwieckz

Unfortunately we can't do PIE executables for Linux yet

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Because of a bug in mimetype database, PIE executables were recognized as shared libraries by mistake and then Linux file managers (whatever the desktop) were not able to run them....

illwieckz

only hardcode one url in updater

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Currently, those url are hardcoded in updater: - http://www.unvanquished.net/?json=get_recent_posts - http://dl.unvanquished.net/versions.json (it advertises unvanquished and updater version numbers) - http://github.com/Unvanquished/updater2/releases/download (it's a prefix to compute final updater url using updater...

illwieckz

timeout is very long when website is down, no way to start the game

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When the website is down… - the updater is waiting a very long time before timing out; - the game is not automatically started even if already there; - the...

illwieckz