[Libreoffice] [libreoffice-l10n] Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Online update service up & running

[Jan Holesovsky]

Hi Olivier,

On 2012-01-05 at 16:38 -0200, Olivier Hallot wrote:

> > So, what you want to do is to put the new version to your server (let's
> > say http://yourserver/newersion.msi) together with the following xml
> > (located at http://yourserver/update.xml):
> > 
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> > <inst:description xmlns:inst="http://update.libreoffice.org/description">
> >   <inst:id>LibreOffice 3.something</inst:id>
> >   <inst:version>3.something</inst:version>
> >   <inst:gitid>123456-abcdef-1a2b3c-4d5e6f</inst:gitid>
> >   <inst:os>Windows</inst:os>
> >   <inst:arch>x86</inst:arch>
> > 
> >   <inst:update type="application/octet-stream" src="http://yourserver/newersion.msi" />
> > </inst:description>
> > 
> > where inst:gitid is the value of 'buildid' in program/versionrc of
> > newersion.msi when installed.
> > 
> > The last step is to point your installations to this update xml, and
> > that is by modifying UpdateURL to value http://yourserver/update.xml in
> > program/versionrc of your installations.
> > 
> > Does this work for you?
>
> I think the scheme you listed will be OK. But I don't have a server to
> test in an internal network

Ah - OK; for testing you should be able to do that locally too, using
file:// protocol (ie. locate the files eg. in /tmp/newversion.msi,
and /tmp/update.xml, and use file:///tmp/newversion.msi resp.
file:///tmp/update.xml in the examples above).

Hope it works for you :-)

Regards,
Kendy