General

Features

Access to many mods
Low-bandwidth usage on every consequent update
Mirror network that is expanding through time
Supports any game edition, while Mods can be setup for specific editions or game families
Supports Mod dependencies
Access to gamespy, thus access to the gameserver list
- Join directly with the required mods selected, and even installed/updated when required
Full search, sort and filterability
GUI and Commandline support. Full linux support

Six Updater Suite+models
Presets
A preset is a collection of:
- a settings profile
- an action
- a collection of mods
- optional: a server
When a ...
Six Updater Suite+Commandline

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Six Rsync
By default, if no folder is specified, the current folder (./) is the working ...
Six Updater Suite+Server
- Please see the generic Six Updater Suite+Documentation
- http://dev-heaven.net/news/show/245 (Bit outdated with the latest usability improvements but should still
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Six Updater Suite+Linux
Status
- six-rsync (core library with minimal functionality), version > 0.4.3.
- six-updater (arma-aware updater application), version > 0.17.1.
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Why use Rsync?

News announcement AKA: THE BIG PICTURE

Rsync is incredibly lightweight, fast and will ensure the least bandwidth wasted, especially on updates.

It uses realtime delta-patching to only transfer the changes between the mod on the user's computer, and the current server version.

This saves an incredible amount of bandwidth, for both, the servers, and the end-users, and streamlines the whole process of (possible) continuous updates.

Six Updater Suite+examples

Example Update, 130 MB file

We have a 130 MB file

We change about 5 kb of data in it

There are
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Configuration database / log files

Web-client data is stored in db/production.sqlite3, updater queue/configuration is stored in six-updater.yml. Reference.

During startup, the path noted as DATA_PATH is the path used in the application.

These folders don't exist until the software has been started once:

Default location: C:\users\{username}\appdata\roaming\Six-Updater. Fall back: C:\users\{username}\appdata\local\temp\Six-Updater
XP Users: C:\Documents and Settings\{username}\application data\Six-Updater. Fall back: C:\Documents and Settings\{username}\local settings\temp\Six-Updater

(these folders are Hidden by default)

Incase you can't find these folders, please double check the installation folder instead (Program Files\Six-Updater by default).

NOTE: If you create a file called 'legacy.txt' in the Six-Updater installation folder, the installation folder will instead be used as DATA_PATH.

Firewalls, ports and security/antivirus

Those with funky security systems, please note the following requirements

tools\ruby\bin\ruby.exe will make outgoing connections to the updater-server-site, over port 80/TCP, and to various RubyGems sites to fetch the latest updater libraries.
tools\bin\rsync.exe will make outgoing connections to various rsync servers, over port 873/TCP, and possibly 873/UDP.
tools\gslist.exe will make outgoing connections to various arma servers, incl the gamespy master server.

Please make sure the mentioned applications are fully allowed in your firewall software.

Please also check Software not working due to Antivirus.