Re: Bug in X11 updater
Re: Bug in X11 updater
- Subject: Re: Bug in X11 updater
- From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:29:14 -0700
On Oct 31, 2011, at 12:17, Paul Schinder wrote:
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> On Oct 31, 2011, at 1:50 PM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
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>> The updater is provided by a framework called Sparkle. If the menu option is greyed out, that usually means that it is either checking or downloading the update. If it is *always* greyed out, then you should make sure that your firewall lets you access this URL:
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>> http://xquartz.macosforge.org/downloads/sparkle/release.xml
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> On my Mac Pro (2.6.3), the menu option is active and the URL is available in a browser. On my Mac Book Pro (still 2.6.1), it's greyed out, but it's still available in a browser.
Hmm... does it appear if you relaunch XQuartz? Is there anything interesting in /var/log/system.log?
> Do I remember right that you once gave us a "defaults write" a year or two ago to change that URL to get beta versions? Looking on my Mac Book, I see from "defaults read | grep sparkle"
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> SUFeedURL = "http://static.macosforge.org/xquartz/downloads/sparkle/beta.xml";
That's correct. That forces you to be on the beta feed even when you have a release version installed.
> Could that be the problem, or is it that 2.6.1 doesn't Sparkle?
Nope, we've been using Sparkle for updating since 2.4.x
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