New Updater
Introduce you new Updater script made by theypsilon which you can download here:
https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Downloader_MiSTer/releases
You need to download it only once. It will handle self updating automatically.
Main difference is this script works only with special distribution repository and doesn't walk through all MiSTer-devel repos, so update is much faster. It also doesn't stress github.
This updater will co-exist for some time with current updater so users will get used to it and most problems will be fixed.
Note: due to the way it works, it may need up to 20-30mins to get latest update available in Distribution repo, so after announce of some release, give it about 30min before check for updates.
Comments (8)
Sounds great. If this is planned to become the new updater would be great if it could include a feature to run optional pre and post scripts the user provides, for ex. downloader_pre.sh and downloader_pst.sh. I like to reorg various dirs my own way and this can require both putting things "back to normal" before a standard update and then re-orging the way I want after the update, hence the need for a custom pre and a post script.
you can use your own launcher which will do some actions before, then will start downloader and then will do post actions.
This may be a silly question, does this replace update_all ?
It's only for official cores. No 3rd party or illegal stuff.
Brilliant stuff. If I wait will this become the standard updater automatically or will I need to manually replace the script?
Great, thanks a lot! I'm excited to see how well it performs.
Interesting, what is the special repo? Thank you for all your hard work making things easy on us.
https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Distribution_MiSTer