Re: [Gnumed-devel] Gnumed "check for updates"

[Karsten Hilbert]

> Presently the client will advise the availability of 0.3.11 however  
> the user may not realize that this is a tarball and may not reflect a  
> packaged release.
> 
> Might be manageable for the 'New version" information to prepend
>       - unpackaged version
> 
> or if it is desired to save the manual changes to the file gnumed- 
> versions.txt to instead say
> 
>       - version may or may not be in a packaged form

The local admin (or the package maintainer in, say, Debian) got
several ways to control this behaviour:

- configure whether to check for updates at all
- configure what to check
  - only the same branch this client is on
  - or including newer branches
- configure where to check (the URL)
  - an admin might want to configure his own gnumed-versions.txt
    locally in order to control when the notification appears

It does seem prudent to add a hint that the advertised version
may or may not be packaged yet for the system the check is
being run on, yes. I'll add that.

Karsten
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