Unluckily, version 1.8 of LiveUpdater released yesterday has an unpleasant bug(*). The new 1.8a version is now available for download.
People who will download and install Icaros Desktop 2.0.1 from scratch
will find it already installed into the distribution, but people
willing to update their current installation of Icaros 2.0 to the
incoming update 2.0.1 should download and install this little program
(20KB), which will improve update operations quality and efficiency.
In particular, this new version brings these enhancement over the
former 1.7 version, coming with Icaros 2.0:
- more polished output, using ZUnZip for update pack decompression
- existing kernel is now zipped and archived into sys:Arch/old-kernel directory
- all files in S get copied, user-startup is backupped into S:user-startup.LUPD-backup
- added updating of L drawer. It wasn't updated before
- LiveUpdater shouldn't show pointless error messages anymore, about files it could not find
- Fixed some other bugs here and there
- Fixed handling of S:user-startup that wasn't working in version 1.8
> Download LiveUpdater v1.8a (20 KB)
INSTALLATION
Just
extract LUPD18a.ZIP file to any directory on your filesystem (RAM: might
be a good place) and start the LUPD18a-Install script, either with the
'execute' command, or double-clicking on its icon. It will overvwrite
older LiveUpdater version with the new one.
(*) What would happen if I'd update Icaros with LiveUpdater 1.8 and not 1.8a?
Nothing really bad. You should, however, manually delete S:User-Startup after installation, or many system programs like GUI, AmiStart, AmiBridge that Icaros runs at startup, would be launched twice (S:Icaros-Sequence would be executed both from S:startup-sequence and S:user-startup, since in Icaros 2.0.1 we've moved the 'execute S:icaros-sequence' command from the latter to the former). LiveUpdater 1.8 does not correctly handle updating S/ files, while 1.8a does.
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Dec 9, 2014
LiveUpdater 1.8a "re-release"
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Paolo Besser is a long time Commodore fan and Amiga user. He joined the AROS project some time around year 2001 and started its main distribution in 2007. He's a IT technician, journalist and a VMware system administrator.