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List:       tortoisesvn-users
Subject:    Re: Using UpdateCheckURL with additional lines
From:       Stefan_Küng <tortoisesvn () gmail ! com>
Date:       2006-02-22 16:35:54
Message-ID: 43FC92EA.9020104 () gmail ! com
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Andrew Webber wrote:
> Forgive me if this question has already been asked on the list, but I 
> couldn't find the answer in the archives.
> 
> I'm planning on using the UpdateCheckURL registry entry to control 
> updates to a large number of developer machines.  I have successfully 
> gotten Tortoise to download my version.txt and check against the version 
> number.  If I hack the number to increase the version, Tortoise 
> correctly reports that a newer version is available.  However, when I 
> click on the text to download the update it opens the page 
> http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/ in my browser.
> 
> After checking out r5521 to my machine and looking through the code, it 
> appears that you use additional lines in version.txt to allow users to 
> specify their own update message and URL.  I have updated my version.txt 
> to look like this:
>> 1.3.1.5527
>> Developers: Download this new version.
>> http://local_server/tortoise_install_file.msi
> When Tortoise checks for updates, the "a newer version is available" 
> text and the download URL have not changed.  After looking at the code, 
> it seems like what I'm doing should work.  I would love to test the code 
> myself, but unfortunately, I only have Microsoft Dev Studio .NET 2003 
> installed and I can't muck with my environment.
> 
> Has anyone else used this extra functionality?  If I could get this to 
> work, it would be of great help to me and my company.

This only works for TSVN 1.4.x (compiled from HEAD), that version isn't 
released yet. You can try a nightly build.

Stefan

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