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[simoncn]

(26-11-2015 19:23)igrnt Wrote:  Understood, it's fair enough.

Then it just remains to clarify what parameters or restrictions apply to scripting an installation or upgrade of MinimServer. The VortexBox method loads the download page, presumably this URL can be guaranteed to be stable. What about the direct links themselves, do they change?
Does MinimServer check for updates regularly? If so, how is the user notified, via MinimWatch or :9790? I didn't check this bit of VortexBox - or does the user themselves have to check for updates?

The direct links do change and no-one should rely on these. The only guaranteed stable URL (at present) is the URL that VortexBox uses. Ths URL is guaranteed to return a direct download URL for the most recent release of MinimServer. If OMV can't use the same URL as VortexBox for some reason, I would be open to adding something else that is more suitable.

There is a difference between updates and releases. MinimServer and MinimWatch handle updates automatically and/or by prompting the user. At present, this prompting occurs via MinimWatch. It could also be done via :9790 but this would require enhancing :9790 to add the capability of doing the update, which isn't possible at present and would be a moderate amount of work.

For new releases, at present the user isn't notified automatically and needs to discover that a new release is available (for example, by looking at the MinimServer website). This will change in the next MinimServer update, with users being notified automatically via MinimWatch when there is a new release that they need to install in order to receive further updates. They would need to install the new release manually themselves.

It shouldn't be too difficult to add this "new release" notification to :9790 and I will look into doing this.

The manual step of installing a new release could be automated (most easily on Linux) and I am open to providing a way to do this.