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zed

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Registered: 2017-06-27

Posts: 46

auto-update

Could I ask for auto-update of the binary to be made optional, and preferably
disabled by default for the source release?

It's a security hole, and rather makes a mockery of the option to compile from
source.

Really I'd disable it by default for linux in general - it isn't something
linux users expect, and it's generally frowned upon for its security
implications.

jasonrohrer

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Registered: 2017-02-13

Posts: 4,805

Re: auto-update

Hmm... the source release shouldn't auto-download binary code updates.

The actual binary releases contain "binary.txt" files that instruct the game to download binary updates.

The Source releases should not contain that file, and thus they will only download non-binary, content updates.  Like new image files, new text files, etc.  I'm posting content updates all the time without making new builds or source bundles, so receiving these content updates is really necessary to play the game from a Source build.

And if you've downloaded the Linux binary version, I think you can disable downloading of code updates by simply deleting binary.txt

But the "DOWNLOADING UPDATE" screen looks the same, so you might think you're getting code updates in the Source version when you're really not.  Try keeping an md5 of your binary around and then checking it after to be sure.

Can you verify that this stuff is indeed working as it should?

zed

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Registered: 2017-06-27

Posts: 46

Re: auto-update

Ah, very good.

Somehow my source directory, compiled from the v22 source distribution, did
have a binary.txt file for version 23. But I've tested that with binary.txt
deleted it updates only data files, and doesn't create a binary.txt file, and
that it updates the binary when binary.txt is there. How it came to exist in
my directory I have no idea, but hopefully it won't happen again. I've checked
that the latest source distribution has no binary.txt.

jasonrohrer

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Registered: 2017-02-13

Posts: 4,805

Re: auto-update

Oh... I think I know how that happened....

I made a mistake in one of the _all.dbz bundles and it included a binary.txt file by accident.  When the update was applied (it was a content-only update that updated some settings files, I think), it added a binary.txt file to your source distribution, putting you on the binary update track ever after.

I'll be more careful about that in the future.

TheRubyCart

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Registered: 2019-12-12

Posts: 293

Re: auto-update

I emailed zed, lets hopefully have him rejoin this society of one hours of one lifes

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DiscardedSlinky

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Re: auto-update

Is this the first forum post

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TheRubyCart

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Re: auto-update

Is this the first forum post

I went to the bottom of the last page on main forum

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jasonrohrer

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Re: auto-update

King of the necro threads.

Zed goes way way back....

TheRubyCart

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Re: auto-update

King of the necro threads.

Zed goes way way back....

was he one of the first forum users? did you talk to him alot?'

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DestinyCall

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Registered: 2018-12-08

Posts: 4,563

Re: auto-update

why did you necro this thread, TheRubyCart?    Are you just bored again?

TheRubyCart

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Registered: 2019-12-12

Posts: 293

Re: auto-update

why did you necro this thread, TheRubyCart?    Are you just bored again?

I just found it and thiught it was interesting

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DestinyCall

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Re: auto-update

Interesting in what way?  This is a thread about a potential security hole that was fixed almost three years ago.

zed

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Registered: 2017-06-27

Posts: 46

Re: auto-update

Who dares disturb my rest?

DestinyCall

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Registered: 2018-12-08

Posts: 4,563

Re: auto-update

Oh no!   Zed has risen.    Our fates are sealed.

TheRubyCart

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Registered: 2019-12-12

Posts: 293

Re: auto-update

Who dares disturb my rest?

THE FIRST FORUM USER IS BACK!
btw I emailed for ur return

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Grim_Arbiter

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Registered: 2018-12-30

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Re: auto-update

I don't believe it.

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TheRubyCart

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Re: auto-update

I don't believe it.

https://i.giphy.com/media/TX7RU43RRH5fO/source.gif

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zed
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Re: auto-update

Who dares disturb my rest?

Offline

SEE!

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Grim_Arbiter

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Re: auto-update

I know about zed, but he wasn't the first fourm user.

It actually goes to "a_fiendish_thingy"

His user ID is 8

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schmloo

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Re: auto-update

All praise Zed, the prophet who came to end the famine or something.

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TheRubyCart

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Registered: 2019-12-12

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Re: auto-update

All praise Zed, the prophet who came to end the famine or something.

praise the boi

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antking:]#

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Registered: 2018-12-29

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Re: auto-update

I know about zed, but he wasn't the first fourm user.

It actually goes to "a_fiendish_thingy"

His user ID is 8

How long have you been here?

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Grim_Arbiter

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Re: auto-update

How long have you been here?

Heh a day after you. But I have spent too much time going through the old form posts just to get a history of things I guess.

I was just plugging numbers into the user id's id starting at 2 (jason is 2)and the first one that comes up is 8.

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antking:]#

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Posts: 579

Re: auto-update

How long have you been here?

I was just plugging numbers into the user id's id starting at 2 (jason is 2)and the first one that comes up is 8.

A long time ago before Jason, before OHOL, their was the first god who's name has long been forgotten, the creator of the forms the number 1

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Grim_Arbiter

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Registered: 2018-12-30

Posts: 943

Re: auto-update

A long time ago before Jason, before OHOL, their was the first god who's name has long been forgotten, the creator of the forms the number 1

His name has long since been forgotten.. or rather we only have his initials.

This whole site is still powered by the sacrifice he made to turn himself into a flux capacitor.

At the very bottom of the page we have a memorial and a reminder.

"Powered by FluxBB"

Bless you B.B. for your sacrifice so that we may write.

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