Stable & Beta module install

[hsth]

Yesterday I checked both stable and beta to be updated to the latest version using Skate Zilla's program (not enough to be praised..). Both were.

Then I started stable and got the number 2 indicating module updates available. So I did and saw that the South Atlantic terrain to be installed.
Started the install but, to my surprise, it started a full download. Although it had been installed already in beta.

So it took several hours again....

Maybe the module install procedure can be changed so that it works the same as general update? That one first checks if it is already available in the other installation.

[draconus]

Module Manager in DCS shows the number (in red) of modules owned but not installed. No wonder it started installing from scratch. Are you sure you had it already installed in stable? Also map files can be very big (over a few GB), so any file that differs between DCS versions has to be downloaded as a whole.

Edited August 31, 2022 by draconus

[Rudel_chw]

On 8/28/2022 at 2:39 AM, hsth said:

Then I started stable and got the number 2 indicating module updates available. So I did and saw that the South Atlantic terrain to be installed.
Started the install but, to my surprise, it started a full download. Although it had been installed already in beta.

The files need to be identical, if the open beta version of south atlantic has newer files, the utility is forced to download the original version of those files for the Stable version.

[hsth]

As stated before, I had this module already installed in beta version.

And I checked both, beta & stable, for updates. They both were.

The only reason I could think of is that this terrain module does not come from ED but from Razbam.

[draconus]

OK, now I see it has nothing to do with SkateZilla's update utility and being Razbam module either.

It seems DCS updater checks for the DCS files on available drives in the system but apparently module downloader run from Module Manager does not.

[BIGNEWY]

7 minutes ago, hsth said:

As stated before, I had this module already installed in beta version.

And I checked both, beta & stable, for updates. They both were.

The only reason I could think of is that this terrain module does not come from ED but from Razbam.

attaching your dcs log should show clues 

but you need to use the module manager to install modules 

[Rudel_chw]

34 minutes ago, Rudel_chw said:

if the open beta version of south atlantic has newer files,

 

Just checked, OB is v2.7.17.29140 (which includes an important update for SA), while Stable is 2.7.16.28157 and includes the first version of the SA Map.

[SkateZilla]

On 8/28/2022 at 2:39 AM, hsth said:

Yesterday I checked both stable and beta to be updated to the latest version using Skate Zilla's program (not enough to be praised..). Both were.

Then I started stable and got the number 2 indicating module updates available. So I did and saw that the South Atlantic terrain to be installed.
Started the install but, to my surprise, it started a full download. Although it had been installed already in beta.

So it took several hours again....

Maybe the module install procedure can be changed so that it works the same as general update? That one first checks if it is already available in the other installation.

The Build in Open Beta is different than the Build in Stable, so it would pretty much be an entire download.

If Local Source isn't set it would not scan OpenBeta for compatible files to bring to Release, or vise versa.

If Stable did update, then you couldn't have had the map installed prior, as it was not available in prior stable versions.

Edited August 31, 2022 by SkateZilla