Jim, my download limit is greatly increased, now-a-days, but cannot
see the logic in downloading a big file, just because I can. And why
would the busy SeaMonkey Council volunteers produce an update file if
they didn't want people to use them??
And it is a non issue if you let it do
the updates as they come out.
But as I have SM set-up to check each week, and, before that weekly
event occurs, it is know that the update has problems, why update?
And doing it like Microsoft and including
cumulative updates is not the answer. That's part of the reason
Microsoft SPs are huge. You complain about a 23 Meg SeaMonkey download,
what do you say about a 400 Meg Microsoft download?
As I've update Win7 each second Tuesday of the Month (or
there-abouts), I've never had a 400MB MS d/l, but, then again, I've
never d/l'ed a Win7 SP! Should I have??
With a full package
being only 23 Meg. you would be further ahead taking the updates when
the come out and in the rare case where a update had server problems
downloading the previous full package and backing off the update.
But if you don't want to install the updates as they come out and don't
want to download the full package you can still download the partials
and install them manually in order. You can find the instructions at
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Software_Update:Manually_Installing_a_MAR_file
In your case (using Windows en-us updates as an example) going from 2.8
to 2.9.1 you could have downloaded
ftp://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/releases/2.9/update/win32/en-US/seamonkey-2.8-2.9.partial.mar
and installed it (5910 KB) and then downloaded
ftp://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/releases/2.9.1/update/win32/en-US/seamonkey-2.9-2.9.1.partial.mar
and installed it (918 KB).
Jim
As I've yet to do the update for my Win7 version, I thank you for this
information, as it means I'll be able to update the Win7 SM with-out
d/l'ing the full 20-odd MB.
(Bugger, I've just noticed they are the WIN32 versions......will have
to go looking for the WOW64 equivalents!!)
