PortableApps.com Updater 1.0 Beta 1 (outdated)

Thanks for updating this awesome tool to Beta 1!

The self-update from alpha9 to beta1 doesn't work.

1. First try with settings.ini: Updater shows beta1. Beta1 is checked and greyed out. When clicking Start, Updater tells to select an app or to cancel

2. Second try without settings.ini: Updater asks for Installer language, fetches the updater.ini ... and tells that there's nothing to do

same here, autoupdate is checked but set opaque and doesn´t work. Advanced GUI opens but clicking on next doesn´t show a GUI.

On WINE it seems not to work. First it gave me an database error. Then wget got frozen, gonna re-download to see if it works then, but for now it seems to simply freeze wget (had to kill it on taskmanager).

EDIT: Re-downloaded updater. Now it warns that a new version is available, every time. And wget still dies.

Where do you put the parameters /showop /Data=home.ini to make PortableAppsUpdater.exe use them all the time.

In updater.ini, the MD5 hash for CoolPlayerp_Portable_2.19.1.paf.exe is wrong. It's the one from the outdated version (2.17.1).

[include $MANTRA "Thou shall double check MD5 hashes before publishing!"]

You closed the thread about alpha9 and set a link to this beta1 thread. The text of your link shows the right node number (14735), but clicking on it leads to the old alpha6 thread (12584). Can you please fix the link?

Thanks for the alpha to beta update!

Thanks Marko for you work on this one!
I like the new Icon and I have only one question:
"Who has the 100 Apps to update ?"

There's not enough space on the finish screen to display the whole German text. See this screenshot.

*** PackageVersion=four digit numeric version number

You can't compare apples and pears (read: letters and numbers)
In updater.ini the package version of VLC is wrong.
It should be: PackageVersion=0.8.6.9
But it reads: PackageVersion=0.8.6.i
Please fix it ...

Are you sure Italians, Japanese and Chinese will be happy to share the same OpenOffice.org language version? For all three the language code in updater.ini is set to the same value (1040).

• Update from alpha9 to beta1 doesn't update appicon.ico.
• appicon.ico file size is ten times the alpha9 one. Please remove all unnecessary resolutions.
• As icon of the appicon.ico I see the Firefox icon

The following files should be deleted:

• Source\PAUPDATER_SEC_SIZE - Kopie.nsh
• wget\wget.GID

I'd suggest that you don't use real app names as example for blacklisting. I bet a user will copy the sample settings.ini unaltered and wonder why this app isn't updated
You may use something like "ExampleApp Portable=true" instead.

btw: Are comment lines in settings.ini possible? What should be the first sign of a comment line?

This is a limitations snapshot of the actual Beta1. These limitations may or may not change as development evolves.

1. Updating of the platform itself (PA menu and PA backup) is not supported. Update the platform manually.
2. Add-ons are not supported (like Pidgin-OTR or GPG for Thunderbird Portable). Update add-ons manually.
3. Additional components of the apps being updated (like multilingual support) are not selected automatically corresponding to the updater language choice.
4. Launchers are not supported (like XAMPP-Launcher). Update them manually.
5. Parallel release lines (like Firefox 2.x/3.x) are not supported. If you want to keep for example your 2.x version of Firefox, you have to put an according item into the blacklist section of your settings.ini in the Data directory. Thus update your 2.x version manually.
6. Really old app versions (without appinfo.ini) will not be updated automatically. Update those old versions manually.
7. Use of the wget configuration file .wgetrc is not supported. Put additional wget parameters into the update section of your settings.ini (wget_options=). I'm not sure if you can override parameters that are hardcoded in the source of the updater.
8. Only released apps are supported. If you want to update developing apps automatically, create your own database. Hints for doing so can be found in updater.ini and the sample settings.ini.
9. If you want to create your own database be aware that a maximum of 100 entries is supported.

Well, these are the limitations as far as I'm aware of them. Extensions or even better abatements are welcome!
Nonetheless the Updater is a wonderful tool and I like it very much!

I may have missed some option here but...

I would like to know if there is a way to not use the local machine for the downloads. For example, a way to specify a directory on the flash drive from which the updater is running.

Also, I like to keep copies of what I install in case I need to reinstall an app or share that application with another PC that has no access to the 'net. I saw a delete or not option, when I set it to not delete, it still did...?

Thanks for all the work on this one. I've been watching and waiting for this one.

Sys Specs:
Windows 2000 SP4
Domain user with administrative rights

Has this stopped working? Its no longer finding any updates which i can see are there.

If it's not too early to ask for a feature, I'd like to ask for a way to tell it to extract the programs automatically to the default folders within [drive]/PortableApps/ if it's not too much trouble. I know that this could possibly interfere with somebody's customized configs (like xampp), but I (for one) would like it as an option.

Would something like this be easy/possible?

Thanks.

1* make all download first as this part as no user interaction and can take some time and/or have an option "download only"

2* silent/unattended option: automatically updated all selected apps

3* support for test/pre-release apps

else thanks a lot for this greatest app

One bug i have:
can't installed PA Updater from win2ksp4 but can use it.

As Simeon said here, in reply, I have the "100 apps to update. Since I've been offline for a while, I'll give this a try to update my thumbdrive.

Is it possible to select which sourceforge mirror to use?
In the UK, the "kent" mirror is by far the fastest available.

Doesn't work for me.

I have configured it properly, i think. Suggestion: When you start it with /SHOWOP, have the next button begin the update process.

It attempts to download the package, quits, and says that the md5 sums don't match.
If I download the file, then cancel, it will delete the file, even though I told it not to in my configuration ini.

I am not behind a proxy. I have attempted to use the updater several times now, however, it has not worked correctly once.

If you wish, I will start a new topic.

Hi there,

I initially tried the current beta (1.0 beta 1) in a location where (unknown to me) wget is blocked from accessing port 80. This resulted in the somewhat obscure error message:

Database Error
[path]\updater.ini not found! 1033

In addition, the progress messages appeared to suggest that the database retrieval had succeeded.

I suspect that it would be more helpful to tell the end user that the updated version information cannot be retrieved.

Regards,
Richard

Hi,
I tried to update my USB-PortableApps, but the Updater tells me all is ok.
All updates of November are not done.
Is there an info-file not updated?

First off this is an awesome and much needed idea.

I would suggest two points:

- A generic method to insert custom update addresses to the database. Such as apps that are still pre-release.

- When an error occurs, don't trigger a popup, just a text box with a log of successes and failures.

Personally, I appreciate your work thus far. Keep up the good work.