Thanks for the replies everyone. > Tony is correct - optional updates are not detected at all by > srcupdatecheck. The master server simply is not aware of them. To > detect them would require A: A custom repository script abusing code > deep inside hldsupdatetool (valve would not appreciate this), or B: > Valve releasing some kind of XML feed or something with version > information and optional update information.
> If you wish to manually trigger an update, however, when an optional > update is available, you can delete <gamedir>/steam.inf - which will > cause the update daemon to trigger immediately. If you're not using an > update daemon, just delete steam.inf and reboot a server so its update > check fires. > After reading more through srcupdatecheck it looked to me like it would only exit with returncode 7 when a "server is out of date" message was returned from a check. There was one update a couple weeks ago (TF2 I think) that got applied which I thought was optional from reading the description, it's what made me wonder if nemrun was applying optional updates, but it must have been something else. I was using manual deletion of the steam.inf file + -verify_all to force update checks (to make sure I had things working correctly when an update came out) so it was probably all my tinkering around that caused this non-required update to be installed. > As for warning people about an update before it happens, the script > runs the -notifycommand synchronously - nemrun wont continue until it > exits. So you can throw a warning in there followed by a "sleep 60". > Of course with -updatefirst this isn't needed. True, I was really only thinking it would be sort of nice to send a couple alerts to the game (csay,hsay,etc.) a few seconds before sending the quit command when update was complete, so ppl on the server would know that the reason the server was going down/rebooting was because of an update, rather than a crash or something. Especially since the servers tend to fill up pretty quick if yours are among the first updated and back online. Thanks again, PharaohsPaw _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
