Status

• six-rsync (core library with minimal functionality), version > 0.4.3.
• six-updater (arma-aware updater application), version > 0.17.1.
• six-updater-web (the web gui), version > 0.10.2.

Upcoming apt-get like behaviour

Prerequisites

• Ruby (at least 1.9.3 recommended! You can use RVM for easy (and optional non-root) install of Ruby), with Rubygems
• p7zip (7z binary)
• md5sum
• rsync

 Universal example:

Download and install RVM, with it install the latest Ruby 1.9.3, see https://rvm.io/ for details

Download and install rsync and p7zip, refer to your distribution documentation for info.

Debian example:

apt-get install ruby1.9 rubygems1.9 p7zip rsync

Ubuntu example:

apt-get install ruby1.9.1-full p7zip-full rsync

(You might have to link /usr/bin/ruby -> /usr/bin/ruby1.9   (same for gem and rake. 1.9 could be 1.9.1, 1.8, etc)  for your convienence)

Installation & Usage

• gem install six-updater

  • This also installs six-rsync
• Save a six-updater.yml in ~/six-updater/six-updater.yml   (or anywhere else)

• six-updater --help
  

  • six-rsync --help

Please also see +Commandline.

Run "gem update" to keep gems up2date

Six-updater-web

Running from source (Recommended)

Requires git (http://www.git-scm.com)

Once:

git clone git://git.dev-heaven.net/six-updater-web.git
cd six-updater-web
cp config/database.yml.sample config/database.yml
gem install bundler
bundle install

If you want to run with settings stored in ~/six-updater (equal to gem): (still from within six-updater-web directory)

ruby init.rb

Or, if you want to run with settings inside six-updater-web directory: (still from within six-updater-web directory)

Once:

rake db:create RAILS_ENV=production
rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=production
rake goldberg:migrate RAILS_ENV=production
rake db:schema:dump RAILS_ENV=production
rake sync:system RAILS_ENV=production

And to run:

ruby script/server -e production

(use --help  for more info)

To update to the latest six-updater-web-source, run:

git pull

Running from Gem

• gem install six-updater-web sqlite3-ruby

  • This also installs six-rsync and six-updater

• six-updater-web --help

Switching to per user-gem

• as root:

gem uninstall six-updater-web

(six-updater, six-rsync, and all other six-updater-web dependencies can remain installed in the main ruby gems library)

• as user:
  • In the commands below, please exchange 1.9.1 with the Ruby version on your system (ruby --version) e.g 1.8
  • Prepare the environment

export PREFIX=$HOME/gem && export GEM_HOME=$PREFIX/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1 && export RUBYLIB=$PREFIX/lib/ruby:$PREFIX/lib/site_ruby/1.9.1

•  
  • Install the application

gem install six-updater-web

•  
  • Run the application 

~/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/bin/six-updater-web

Alternative solutions

The following alternative options are available, and can be automated fairly easily on any linux scripting language:

Upload local preset by (s)FTP or rSync

Updater_2_2_Upload_preset_to_server_by_FTP_or_rSync

Manual

1. Manually transfer 7z's or archives of your choosing
2. Unpack and setup the modfolders. Incase official distributions, don't forget to unpack the *.gz files under @MOD\.pack\**\*to @MOD\**\*
3. Run the server with -mod=@cba;@ace;@acex;@acex_ru;@acex_usnavy

rSync on server

About rSync

1. Grab six-updater.yml from a working client
2. Write down the mirrors from the modfolders you'd like to sync
3. Use rsync in similair way as this: rsync --times -O --no-whole-file -r --delete --progress -h --exclude=.rsync rsync://somemirror/rel/cba/./.pack/ /home/arma/arma2/@CBA/.rsync/.pack
4. Extract the .gz files, and use the output files in the modfolders

rSync on server - scripted

Linux rSync script by Dr.Pulp

Acknowledgment

• 16jan10: Thanks to Dr.Pulp for his script. (TomNedry, www.csar-clan.net)