Re: How Long to Update?

There are 4 "cycles" of updates in total.

1)  WSSD/WSAD 5.1.0.1
2)  Interim Fix 001
3)  Interim Fix 003
4)  WDSC 5.1.0.1

Each cycle involves going through that long process of checking for 
updates, then selecting to install the update, at which point the download 
happens, followed by a restart of WDSC.  You then have to repeat the 
process.

Numbers 1 and 4 above are both pretty significant in their download size 
and it does not happen until you actually select the download.  I am not 
sure why the checking for New Updates takes so long, but I think the 
reason might be that what it does is download a file named site.xml from 
the update site.  It then has to read that XML file which lists a number 
of "features" that are available for update.  I suspect it then downloads 
the features so that it can inspect them and see if you need them.  In 
general, the features are not too big - 500K?, but there might be a lot of 
them.  When you actually install, it then downloads the plugins for those 
features which is where most of the size is.

Mark


wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 01/08/2004 08:43:29 AM:

>    My home connection is still a 56kb modem.  Last night I told Update
>    Manager to search for updates, expecting it to run a few minutes, 
then
>    tell me what was available, kind of like Microsoft Update does. After 
30
>    minites it had downloaded 10mb according to my connections stats and 
was
>    still running.  The progress bar jumped to 80 something percent after
>    about 15 minutes, but showed no inclination to move any further, so I 
left
>    it and went of to watch TV.
> 
>    I came back 2 hours later so I don't know when it finished, and it 
told me
>    that 5.1.0.1 was available.
> 
>    If I tell it to install 5.1.0.1 will there be additional downloads, 
or
>    have the changes already been downloaded?  I hear rumbles here that 
there
>    are 4 or 5 additional upgrades already in the works.
> 
>    Sam
> 
>    (I haven't tried the upgrade at work--still haven't gotten around our
>    firewall.)
> 
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