Ok, I am guilty of not posting sooner. And I admit that I refused to use the forums until I could figure out a way to not use my real name (user name). BUT, these Linux updates are obnoxious. 1 GB when Windoze only has 28 MB. And I am bandwidth limited. Can we have the Uber Linux guru write a script that uses rdiff, and rsync at the command prompt to only update the relevant files? (they require username password so you can tie it to PAMM - no that is not Planetary... - or whatever auth scheme you implement and use your existing database)
It's already there and it's done by @UberWilliam: https://forums.uberent.com/threads/streams-pte-and-experimental-builds.58960/#post-917431
Hey RealTarget - Have you checked this out? https://bitbucket.org/papatcher/papatcher This should be pulling down pretty reasonably sized differential patches, rather than the full sized tar-ball.
Good file. Still downloading, not thinking this is what I wanted (no shorter than downloading the complete build). And the code looks like it just downloads the entire package in a scheduled manner. (need to look at that more closely) Do you have a directory I can rsync to?
I will concede that the game uses a lot of bandwidth, but the optimizations let me play all night (with less than 2k total units) with no lag. *2k or more total units and the system is very laggy The update download takes me over 2 hours to download on a straight download. So my evening is ruined if I was planning on PA for the evening. I just want to get to playing ~something~ in the same evening I download. My rate limit is 10 MB (probably per hour).
Once you have one of versions downloaded already it's will use a lot less bandwidth. At least this updater work exactly as one with GUI on Windows. Unfortunately rsync won't help you any more because some of game assets like audio ad 3D models already pre-compressed so once they chanced a bit it's required to re-download full file.
Thanks, you all have been real supportive. I will try again tonight and see if I can get an error free download (last night had three files corrupt after three hours. ) and then do just updates. - First glance it looked like it unzipped the tarball and then downloaded only what I needed - more work than just downloading the tarball.
Did it! Second run of the "paupdater" did only take 30 minutes on my slow connection. I have an expect script half finished and will upload when done so anyone can automate the download using their username and password.
Ok, anyone that wants an unsupported script, here it is. Basically, it just updates PA for you without you needing to type your username and password everytime. Open it in a text editor to get the instructions. Save it in your papatcher directory and chmod 555 the Update_PA file. Run it like any bash script: ./Update_PA. Enjoy!
Dang. Looking through paupdate.go to turn off auto start of PA, I see that the username and password can be passed as arg0 and arg1, so my small script is worthless. Good code UberWilliam.
