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Solutions to various problems
What if I want to switch modules and they have different hakpaks
This is a bit tricky, but if you will understand it, it will make perfect
sense.
You create and test two hakpaks separately. UpdateURL should be different
for each hakpak, InfoURL should be the same - it is info about your server.
Now, you upload both hakdirs to correct places on web server (ones which
are in their pakinfo files). Switching current hakpak is as easy as putting
correct pakinfo.txt at InfoURL - people will update to correct hakpak when
they will check for updates. Do not worry about this switch - even if they
have choosen single hak pak mode, all cost is few seconds of repacking before
run, all downloaded data will be preserved in cache.
Example: You want to have two hakpaks, one called MyHak and second KahYm.
You have your server at www.nwnhost.com. You should create these two hakpaks
normally, and set variables in MyHak:
InfoURL=http://www.nwnhost.com/hak/Current
UpdateURL=http://www.nwnhost.com/hak/MyHak
and in KahYm:
InfoURL=http://www.nwnhost.com/hak/Current
UpdateURL=http://www.nwnhost.com/hak/KahYm
All data, include pakinfo.txt should be copied to correct directories on
server. Please note that these pakinfos will probably differ with not only
UpdateURL, but also hakname, hak description, maybe even server description.
Now if you want to use MyHak, copy MyHak/pakinfo.txt to Current/pakinfo.txt.
If you want to use KahYm, copy KahYm/pakinfo.txt to Current/pakinfo.txt.
That's all, if you will not change contents of hakpaks, you do not have to
do anything more.
Of course you can scale it to any number of hakpaks. Important part is that,
unless you use LibraryURL, you cannot share files between update directories.
Even if hakpaks have same content, it has to be duplicated in every directory.
This is because there is a requirement that paklist.txt has to be in same
directory as rest of content. If this will prove to be a big problem, I can
change it in future, but this will add another layer of complication, plus
you will not be able to use different versions of file with same name for
different hakpaks. If you really want to have big number of hakpaks, LibraryURL
is probably an answer for you - you can set up cache library yourself (see
Library Setup tutorial).
You can contact me at abies@pg.gda.pl
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