https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158657
--- Comment #3 from Philippe Cloutier <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Stephan Bergmann from comment #1) > (In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #0) > > With the latest changes to the online update mechanism the existing dialog > > as shown here > > > > https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/how-to-update-libre-writer-there-is-no-update- > > options-button-missing-online-update becomes more crowded as shown in > > https://pasteboard.co/G2LZ2NuLWXJo.png. > > > > I struggle with > > [x] Check for updates automatically > > [ ] Enable automatic updates > > > > If the two options are mutually we can use radio buttons, if the automatic > > update just applies the update we could change the wording (and make it > > depending ie. disabled from the "check for updates" option). > > There are two features involved here: > > 1 --enable-online-update, for the traditional mechanism of checking for > updates, notifying the user about available updates, and potentially also > downloading an update's msi file (but never automatically applying such > updates, but leaving that to be done manually by the user). Most of the > option pane is about this feature, from "Check for updates automatically" > all through to "Privacy Policy". > > 2 --enable-online-upate-mar, for the Mozilla-technology-based mechanism of > checking for updates periodically, downloading an update's mar file, and on > the next start of soffice automatically updating the LO installation with > that mar file. The part of the option pane that is about this feature is > the bottom part "Automatic Update" and "Enable automatic update". Thank you, but what do you mean by "an update's mar file"? I assume the option is --enable-online-update-mar. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
