On Jan 3, 2008, at 8:46 PM, peterw wrote:
>
> Since I toggle one of my real players back and forth between my
> production SS 6.5.x and development SC 7.x installs, I've become adept
> at editing squeezebox2.version to prevent firmware downgrades. It
> seems
> to me that the new firmware is rarely (never, that I know of) *not*
> backwards compatible. So maybe the ${model}.version system should
> change.
>
> Proposal:
> - SC7 should pull new ${model}.version files from slimdevices.com and
> store them in the Cache dir (telling slimdevices.com what SC (SVN?)
> version they're running so slimdevices.com can deliver the appropriate
> ${model}.version file)
> - SC7 should consult the ${model}.version files in the Cache dir
> - users should be able to disable this "phone home" behavior
>
> This would allow pushing new firmwares for SqueezeNetwork without
> downgrades when users switch back to their local SC7 installs, and
> would allow those who swear by Firmware 15 (or whatever), or users who
> don't want SC7 phoning home for privacy reasons, to keep pegging their
> players at that old firmware level.
If you want to run a different firmware than the one supported with a
particular version of SC7, you're on your own. QA would kill us if we
tried to let people run whatever version of firmware they want.
The Jive auto-update system will be removed prior to release, by the
way.
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