On 7/29/2018 9:49 AM, Ant wrote: > On 7/28/2018 10:51 PM, David E. Ross wrote: >> On 7/28/2018 4:54 PM, WaltS48 wrote: >>> >>> SeaMonkey doesn't update anymore. The user has to download and install >>> the whole new version over the old version. >>> >>> I'll bet your repo did the same. >>> >> >> I updated to 2.49.4 for my Windows 7 by downloading >> seamonkey-2.49.3-2.49.4.partial.mar >> from >> <https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/seamonkey/releases/2.49.4/update/win32/en-US/> >> and then using a script I created to incrementally update 2.49.3. I >> have been doing such incremental updates for several years but only for >> third-digit changes. This means smaller and quicker downloads and much >> quicker updates. > > So, you just download and run it? Is that how it works? Or do you need > that script to patch too? >
I need the script. It is tailored to the fact that (1) I have SeaMonkey installed in J:\SeaMonkey and not any C-partition folder and (2) Windows 7 insists there is a Windows meaning for the .mar extension. That tailoring can be easily modified for any location of SeaMonkey. Since I log the changes to my PC when I install or update software -- including updates to Windows 7 -- my updates involve 9 steps. I have a list of those steps to make sure I do all of them in the correct sequence. That might seem like an effort, but it takes less than 5 minutes except for the final step: "Update configuration inventories." (Because my career involved configuration management and control of large software systems, I am obsessive about maintaining inventories of what software and logs of software changes.) As I have commented a number of times in this newsgroup, I use SeaMonkey only as a browser. For E-mail, RSS feeds, and newsgroups, I use Thunderbird. I have a similar script for updating Thunderbird from .mar files. My list of steps applies to both SeaMonkey and Thunderbird. Note that for an update to a new primary or secondary version number (e.g., from SeaMOnkey 2.48 directly to 2.49.1), I use a full installer, not a .mar file and script. Before such updates, I copy all my profiles in case I need to revert to a prior version. I still log the changes and maintain my inventories. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com> Too often, Twitter is a source of verbal vomit. Examples include Donald Trump and Rosseanne Barr. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
