Posted by
ctrueden on
Dec 13, 2013; 6:06pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Blocking-Fiji-s-Updater-tp5005907p5005908.html
Hi Oli,
> Is there a way to have the updater not automatically check for
> updates?
On a per-user level, yes. However, we have not yet exposed the Updater's
auto-checker setting in the user interface. But here is a Beanshell
one-liner that will disable it forever for the current user:
imagej.util.Prefs.put(imagej.updater.core.UpToDate.class, "latestNag",
Long.MAX_VALUE);
Note however that since the Updater is an ImageJ2 component and ImageJ2 is
still in beta, this could be subject to change...
Unfortunately, this will not disable the Updater globally for all users to
whom you deploy the software. And you cannot just delete ij-updater-*.jar
from your installation; Fiji tries to "recover" from that situation --
historically, users sometimes ended up with a bogus updater configuration
by accident and needed Fiji to be aggressive to repair itself in that case.
I'll discuss with Johannes the best way forward; we may need to make some
improvements to the Updater to make it possible to fully disable it from a
deployment standpoint.
I filed three new tickets related to this thread, and a related discussion
on IRC earlier today [1]:
Make it possible to complete disable the ImageJ updater
http://trac.imagej.net/ticket/2035Expose the Updater's UpToDate check setting in Edit > Options
http://trac.imagej.net/ticket/2036Use ImageJ.cfg to store all settings
http://trac.imagej.net/ticket/2037None of that solves your problem today, but hopefully soon.
Regards,
Curtis
[1] For those curious, here is the transcript:
qwebirc97302
hi there
can someone tell where is stored the "disable Fiji updater" setting ?
I distribute the "long life" version of Fiji, and would like to make sure
it's disabled
ctrueden
qwebirc97302: Let me check.
qwebirc97302
I'm digging into imagej/updater/core/UpToDate.java
and it looks like it's a pref set by IJ
but, the thing is that there's no file saved in the directory (I checked I
have write access) after I clicked on "never"
I just had a "ImageJ.cfg" file created when I changed the max memory
ctrueden
qwebirc97302: It uses the Java Preferences API, like the rest of ImageJ2.
It is stored under the package imagej.updater.core, with key latestNag.
Where Java Preferences are stored is OS-specific.
We may change this before ImageJ2 comes out of beta, to be easier to edit
by hand, but right now, that's how it's done.
I can add a menu command Edit > Options > Updater or some such, if that
would help you.
qwebirc97302: Is this question related to the "Blocking Fiji's Updater"
thread on ImageJ mailing list? Or coincidental?
I suppose we could ditch the Java Preferences API in favor of dumping
everything into ImageJ.cfg. :-)
That would be rather more convenient.
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On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Burri Olivier <
[hidden email]>wrote:
> Dear ImageJ/Fiji list,
>
> We're using Git to keep a good working copy of Fiji with all our custom
> plugins and modifications. This way we can deploy a copy very easily on all
> our computers. An update site was not good enough for us, as we're using
> several plugins that do not yet have their update sites. Also sometimes
> (And I do say only sometimes) an update will break some older plugin until
> we fix it, and Git makes it super fast to revert to the previous state.
>
> The idea here is that we do not want the users of our computers to do the
> updates of Fiji. As the "Image Processing Analysts" (Which seems to be our
> new name), we want to get the update, make sure we have the latest copy
> running properly and only then commit it to our Git server.
> Whenever a user opens Fiji through a shortcut, the latest branch is pulled
> from the server and we are now sure that they are running the same version
> as us.
>
> However using Git this way makes the Fiji Updater unhappy and it sees many
> locally modified files and prompts for an update at every run
>
> So my question is this: Is there a way to have the updater not
> automatically check for updates?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Oli
>
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