Is there a download with only the upgrade changed files

Is there a download with only the upgrade changed files

by Jesús Jacir -
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I installed version 1.3.2 two days before 1.3.3 was made available and was wondering if there´s a way of not having to upload to the server all the files again to make the upgrade.

Is there a place where I can get the changed files only.  My first guess would be CVS but haven´t used it for a long time and don´t remember if there´s a way of downloading only the changed files.  Anyway since 1.3.2 wasn´t downloaded with CVS most likely the chaged files option wouldn´t work, or so I think.

Thanks

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Re: Is there a download with only the upgrade changed files

by Andrea Bicciolo -

A possibility could be the use of  a synchornize utility. Program such as Ipswitch WSFTP Pro can do this (you can download a free 30 day trial). You only need to configure the synch, then the utility analyze local file against remote file and upload changed ones only .

Of course you need to download Moodle 1.3.3 on your local computer. If you need only to download changed files, CVS is the solution but you need a previous CVS-downloaded copy on your local computer. Hope this help.

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Re: Is there a download with only the upgrade changed files

by Jesús Jacir -

Thanks Andrea, I´ll give it a shot with WSFTP Por for this upgrade and, since I didn´t download 1.3.2 with CVS, will get a 1.3.3 CVS download to keep up with future changes.

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Re: Is there a download with only the upgrade changed files

by Paul Evans -
The most common util under *nix systems for this is rsync, but unison also works well and is cross-platform. Both are free.

Here is a snippet from the unison page:

"Unison runs on both Windows (95, 98, NT, and 2k) and Unix (Solaris, Linux, etc.) systems. Moreover, Unison works across platforms, allowing you to synchronize a Windows laptop with a Unix server, for example. "

I use rsync between servers because it's always installed already, but I have been using unison between my pc and zaurus for a couple of years and it works very well. Very resilient to broken connections too.

Use the same overall plan suggested by Andrea.

You can read about it/grab it here:

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/

These utils also provide on-the-fly compression as needed and only transfer the actual changes to the files rather than the whole file, so you'll have even lower bandwidth.

Hope this is useful to you.
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Re: Is there a download with only the upgrade changed files

by Martin Dougiamas -
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Once you are using CVS then it only downloads changed files.  In fact it does better than that - it only downloads changed LINES, and it compresses them to boot.

CVS makes a lot of maintenance very easy.
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Re: Is there a download with only the upgrade changed files

by Marc Dastous -

I'm giving this a shot.  I'm trying to setup WinCVS, but once I hit enter at the login screen I get an error:

cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/moodle init

cvs [server aborted]: "init" requires write access to the repository

***** CVS exited normally with code 1 *****

I have zipped together a couple of images.  Are these settings correct?

Marc

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