https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40279
Bug ID: 40279 Summary: Option for a silent migration to a new version Product: Wine Version: 1.8 Hardware: x86-64 OS: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: enhancement Priority: P2 Component: -unknown Assignee: wine-bugs@winehq.org Reporter: sworddragon2@aol.com Distribution: ---
If a new version of Wine gets installed and it gets started a window is shown that the wine configuration gets updated which does eventually ask to download some components. Maybe there could be an option that does not show this dialog at all. Questions about downloading a specific component should then be maybe handled as if the user would click "Cancel".
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40279
--- Comment #1 from Rosanne DiMesio dimesio@earthlink.net --- (In reply to sworddragon2 from comment #0)
If a new version of Wine gets installed and it gets started a window is shown that the wine configuration gets updated which does eventually ask to download some components. Maybe there could be an option that does not show this dialog at all. Questions about downloading a specific component should then be maybe handled as if the user would click "Cancel".
The download dialog only appears when a new version of wine-gecko or wine-mono is needed. If it is silently canceled, the user will end up with a broken wineprefix without any indication of what went wrong.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40279
--- Comment #2 from sworddragon2@aol.com --- The default action to install new components or not could be controlled with an option too. Alternatively silenting is only done if no new components on migrating are needed.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40279
winetest@luukku.com changed:
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--- Comment #3 from winetest@luukku.com --- This sounds invalid to me. You are using outdated mono and gecko if you cancel the downloads.
I think it would make more sense that when new gecko or mono is installed it would remove the old one. It took me some time to find out that an old wine installation had several different mono packages even wine uses just the newest.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40279
--- Comment #4 from sworddragon2@aol.com --- (In reply to winetest from comment #3)
This sounds invalid to me. You are using outdated mono and gecko if you cancel the downloads.
Not exactly, I'm using none of these packages at all on canceling them. Marking this ticket for that reason as INVALID would be theoretically fine but it would also imply that these packages are seen as required and the product should be changed to "Packaging" instead as they are currently not a harddependency.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40279
--- Comment #5 from Rosanne DiMesio dimesio@earthlink.net --- (In reply to sworddragon2 from comment #4)
but it would also imply that these packages are seen as required and the product should be changed to "Packaging" instead as they are currently not a harddependency.
There's already bug 39859 for that.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40279
winetest@luukku.com changed:
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--- Comment #6 from winetest@luukku.com --- I would close this invalid.
What if user never upgrades mono and gecko and opens bugs about it and the bugs are because of outdated packages that are never upgraded, how do you figure that out...
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