Re: [hlds] HLDS Update Tool released
I love it! On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 2:40 PM, John Schoenick nephy...@doublezen.net wrote: Thanks for updating this! The connection reset by peer issue was really painful, especially for update scripts. One request: A a -command checkupdate flag that checks if any updates are needed (either depot versions or with -verify_all). This would allow tools like nemrun to track optional updates, and let admins see if they have any issues with -verify_all without worrying about killing the server. - Neph ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds
Re: [hlds] HLDS Update Tool released
I dont suppose there is an option such as -nonverbose to prevent the huge amount of diagnostic lines from being displayed, for example for automated applications? On 2012/04/12 23:43, Fletcher Dunn wrote: A new version of the HLDS Update Tool has been released. The tool should automatically self-update the next time you run it. (Linux users may need to re-run the tool after it self-updates to complete the installation operation that was intended when launching the tool.) Changes: * Added significant diagnostic output * Fix bug causing the tool to restart the update process all over from the beginning if there was an error with a single depot. * Fix spurious connection reset by peer error when closing connection to content server, which could cause the update to restart from the beginning. * Tool will now reuse a connection to a depot, rather than disconnecting and reconnecting * If the determines in the first pass that no files would actually be updated from a particular depot, it will no longer needlessly connect to that depot in the second pass * Added -nobootstrapupdate option Basically, we fixed a few of the most egregious things the tool was doing that make a slow update much slower. Queuing to connect to a content server still takes up the bulk of the update time during peak times after a major update is released; so don't expect miracles. However, we are hopeful that most users will see modest speedup. We also added quite verbose diagnostic output, so at least you can tell what the tool is doing. Be aware that this output may contain what appear to be errors, especially when the tool is trying to connect to a content server. Failures to connect are normal and the tool has always experienced them and automatically retried. The only thing new is that it is telling you what it is doing. Linux users: If you get the error message Bad uSizeOfSignature, then you probably have a bad version of the tool, which was posted mistakenly for a few hours yesterday. To get unstuck, replace the executable named steam with this one: http://media.steampowered.com/apps/440/linuxhldsupdatetool_48/steam Thanks to those of you who helped beta test this tool. Thanks, Fletcher ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds
Re: [hlds] HLDS Update Tool released
If it's automated why do you care about the amount of output? Surely you aren't going to be looking at the output, and if you are, then something probably went wrong. In which case, the output is helpful. I can see absolutely 0 advantages, and several disadvantages, to disabling verbose output. Kind regards, *Saul Rennison* On 13 April 2012 17:29, Dominik Friedrichs d...@forlix.org wrote: I dont suppose there is an option such as -nonverbose to prevent the huge amount of diagnostic lines from being displayed, for example for automated applications? On 2012/04/12 23:43, Fletcher Dunn wrote: A new version of the HLDS Update Tool has been released. The tool should automatically self-update the next time you run it. (Linux users may need to re-run the tool after it self-updates to complete the installation operation that was intended when launching the tool.) Changes: * Added significant diagnostic output * Fix bug causing the tool to restart the update process all over from the beginning if there was an error with a single depot. * Fix spurious connection reset by peer error when closing connection to content server, which could cause the update to restart from the beginning. * Tool will now reuse a connection to a depot, rather than disconnecting and reconnecting * If the determines in the first pass that no files would actually be updated from a particular depot, it will no longer needlessly connect to that depot in the second pass * Added -nobootstrapupdate option Basically, we fixed a few of the most egregious things the tool was doing that make a slow update much slower. Queuing to connect to a content server still takes up the bulk of the update time during peak times after a major update is released; so don't expect miracles. However, we are hopeful that most users will see modest speedup. We also added quite verbose diagnostic output, so at least you can tell what the tool is doing. Be aware that this output may contain what appear to be errors, especially when the tool is trying to connect to a content server. Failures to connect are normal and the tool has always experienced them and automatically retried. The only thing new is that it is telling you what it is doing. Linux users: If you get the error message Bad uSizeOfSignature, then you probably have a bad version of the tool, which was posted mistakenly for a few hours yesterday. To get unstuck, replace the executable named steam with this one: http://media.steampowered.com/**apps/440/linuxhldsupdatetool_**48/steamhttp://media.steampowered.com/apps/440/linuxhldsupdatetool_48/steam Thanks to those of you who helped beta test this tool. Thanks, Fletcher __**_ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.**com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/**hldshttps://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds __**_ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.**com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/**hldshttps://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds
Re: [hlds] HLDS Update Tool released
I suggest you output to a file but then the console output is gone. Sent from my iPhone 4 On Apr 13, 2012, at 9:36 AM, Saul Rennison saul.renni...@gmail.com wrote: If it's automated why do you care about the amount of output? Surely you aren't going to be looking at the output, and if you are, then something probably went wrong. In which case, the output is helpful. I can see absolutely 0 advantages, and several disadvantages, to disabling verbose output. Kind regards, Saul Rennison On 13 April 2012 17:29, Dominik Friedrichs d...@forlix.org wrote: I dont suppose there is an option such as -nonverbose to prevent the huge amount of diagnostic lines from being displayed, for example for automated applications? On 2012/04/12 23:43, Fletcher Dunn wrote: A new version of the HLDS Update Tool has been released. The tool should automatically self-update the next time you run it. (Linux users may need to re-run the tool after it self-updates to complete the installation operation that was intended when launching the tool.) Changes: * Added significant diagnostic output * Fix bug causing the tool to restart the update process all over from the beginning if there was an error with a single depot. * Fix spurious connection reset by peer error when closing connection to content server, which could cause the update to restart from the beginning. * Tool will now reuse a connection to a depot, rather than disconnecting and reconnecting * If the determines in the first pass that no files would actually be updated from a particular depot, it will no longer needlessly connect to that depot in the second pass * Added -nobootstrapupdate option Basically, we fixed a few of the most egregious things the tool was doing that make a slow update much slower. Queuing to connect to a content server still takes up the bulk of the update time during peak times after a major update is released; so don't expect miracles. However, we are hopeful that most users will see modest speedup. We also added quite verbose diagnostic output, so at least you can tell what the tool is doing. Be aware that this output may contain what appear to be errors, especially when the tool is trying to connect to a content server. Failures to connect are normal and the tool has always experienced them and automatically retried. The only thing new is that it is telling you what it is doing. Linux users: If you get the error message Bad uSizeOfSignature, then you probably have a bad version of the tool, which was posted mistakenly for a few hours yesterday. To get unstuck, replace the executable named steam with this one: http://media.steampowered.com/apps/440/linuxhldsupdatetool_48/steam Thanks to those of you who helped beta test this tool. Thanks, Fletcher ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds
Re: [hlds] HLDS Update Tool released
The thing is I'm reading the output via pipe into my server monitor tool to check if at the end it says update successful. Now the amount of text is so huge that I have to change my methods of handling/storing it in the code (curse me for having used a fixed size array), and I'm not very keen on working on that right now :)) On 2012/04/13 18:36, Saul Rennison wrote: If it's automated why do you care about the amount of output? Surely you aren't going to be looking at the output, and if you are, then something probably went wrong. In which case, the output is helpful. I can see absolutely 0 advantages, and several disadvantages, to disabling verbose output. Kind regards, *Saul Rennison* On 13 April 2012 17:29, Dominik Friedrichs d...@forlix.org mailto:d...@forlix.org wrote: I dont suppose there is an option such as -nonverbose to prevent the huge amount of diagnostic lines from being displayed, for example for automated applications? On 2012/04/12 23:43, Fletcher Dunn wrote: A new version of the HLDS Update Tool has been released. The tool should automatically self-update the next time you run it. (Linux users may need to re-run the tool after it self-updates to complete the installation operation that was intended when launching the tool.) Changes: * Added significant diagnostic output * Fix bug causing the tool to restart the update process all over from the beginning if there was an error with a single depot. * Fix spurious connection reset by peer error when closing connection to content server, which could cause the update to restart from the beginning. * Tool will now reuse a connection to a depot, rather than disconnecting and reconnecting * If the determines in the first pass that no files would actually be updated from a particular depot, it will no longer needlessly connect to that depot in the second pass * Added -nobootstrapupdate option Basically, we fixed a few of the most egregious things the tool was doing that make a slow update much slower. Queuing to connect to a content server still takes up the bulk of the update time during peak times after a major update is released; so don't expect miracles. However, we are hopeful that most users will see modest speedup. We also added quite verbose diagnostic output, so at least you can tell what the tool is doing. Be aware that this output may contain what appear to be errors, especially when the tool is trying to connect to a content server. Failures to connect are normal and the tool has always experienced them and automatically retried. The only thing new is that it is telling you what it is doing. Linux users: If you get the error message Bad uSizeOfSignature, then you probably have a bad version of the tool, which was posted mistakenly for a few hours yesterday. To get unstuck, replace the executable named steam with this one: http://media.steampowered.com/__apps/440/linuxhldsupdatetool___48/steam http://media.steampowered.com/apps/440/linuxhldsupdatetool_48/steam Thanks to those of you who helped beta test this tool. Thanks, Fletcher _ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.__com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/__hlds https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds _ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.__com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/__hlds https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds
Re: [hlds] HLDS Update Tool released
Thanks for updating this! The connection reset by peer issue was really painful, especially for update scripts. One request: A a -command checkupdate flag that checks if any updates are needed (either depot versions or with -verify_all). This would allow tools like nemrun to track optional updates, and let admins see if they have any issues with -verify_all without worrying about killing the server. - Neph ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds
