Well, it knows what mods are available it can either. 1) Update all the mods steam can distribute. 2) Update the mods that are installed.
It's not hard to do a simple "does this dir exist" check.
McCormack, Chris wrote:
ALL may be a bit harder to code for as I dont know if the updater tool knows which mods it has previously updated or are installed. Maybe a comma seperated list would be easier to implement ?
./steam -update cs,tfc,dod
Chris -----Original Message----- From: Steven Hartland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 December 2003 12:21 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [hlds_linux] Re: [hlds] Update Tool trashes working install
Dont forget to add to this the fact there still is no option to update ALL mods e.g. ./steam -update ALL So we have sit through steam verifying and breaking the core files once per mod. Please add the ALL option it would really be a great help to us server admins.
Steve / K ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven Hartland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 18 December 2003 12:12 Subject: Re: [hlds] Update Tool trashes working install
The new way the update tool works is totally unusable. Yes its nice to have a verify option but it should be just that an option it should not be the default. I would suggest something like: -verify, -verify_prompt and -verify_fix where: -verify would just print the diffs -verify_prompt would prompt the user for [y/n] to fix -verify_fix would just fix all
In all cases it would not print "Verifying: XXXXX" as this means you cant see the wood for the trees
-update should only apply updates and potentially warn about diffs but this should really be left for -update -verify IMO. Applying this update just totally trashed our setup overwriting:
Verifying: /usr/local/games/hlds_ls/\cstrike\liblist.gam Downloading: /usr/local/games/hlds_ls/\cstrike\liblist.gam Verifying: /usr/local/games/hlds_ls/\cstrike\mapcycle.txt Downloading: /usr/local/games/hlds_ls/\cstrike\mapcycle.txt Verifying: /usr/local/games/hlds_ls/\cstrike\motd.txt Downloading: /usr/local/games/hlds_ls/\cstrike\motd.txt Verifying: /usr/local/games/hlds_ls/\cstrike\server.cfg Downloading: /usr/local/games/hlds_ls/\cstrike\server.cfg Verifying: /usr/local/games/hlds_ls/\hlds_run Downloading: /usr/local/games/hlds_ls/\hlds_run
Please please guys there really needs to be a proper test procedure put in place here. No way should this have got through testing. This lets try it out on X thousand people is just not cricket.
Steve / K
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