I filed bug 941949 for what I think is a better solution
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=941949 - Support partial
updates for more than the last update for nightly and aurora
Robert
On 11/20/2013 11:37 PM, Robert Strong wrote:
While that might makes sense to implement for nightly, aurora, and
possibly beta builds it doesn't makes sense to implement for release
builds where the vast majority of users are and there are many higher
priority bugs to work on that affect nightly, aurora, beta, and release.
On 11/20/2013 7:17 PM, Geoff Lankow wrote:
It's very annoying to have to download a full update of Nightly
(~40MB) if you miss one. It'd be a better experience to download two
or more partial updates (usually < 10MB) and have the updater install
them sequentially.
[NB. I'm not suggesting doing anything else in the build, unlike in
bug 575317 <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=575317>
which created one partial update for a update of two or more versions.]
Note: this would require the AUS system which is managed by the same
people that created the additional partial mar files to update the AUS
system to track the additional partial mars. I personally prefer just
creating mar files for x number of previous builds similar to bug
575317because it moves the complexity that would primarily benefit
nightly, aurora, and possibly beta users to the server side which can
be automated without adding complexity to the client side which could
easily break release users.
Has this been discussed before?
Yes
If so, what was the outcome?
There have always been higher priority bugs to work on as previously
noted.
Are there bugs filed?
There are on some of the aspects of this. Look under toolkit ->
application update.
Robert
I didn't find any but I don't really know what to search for.
GL
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