[sldev] [VWR] Update channel (Re: VBO is broken)

[Ryan Williams]

I.e. pass --channel "My Fake Channel" on the command line.

-RYaN

Rob Lanphier wrote:
> You should be able to create a separate update channel to get out of the
> update, rather than faking version numbers.  If you aren't able to,
> that's a bug.
>
> Rob
>
> On 10/4/07 10:23 AM, Callum Lerwick wrote:
>   
>> So, it seems I can't be a luddite and log in with 1.18.0.6 anymore.
>> Unfortunately, I haven't had a chance to complete a differential profile
>> between 1.18.0.6 and a current viewer to figure out what's going so
>> horribly wrong. 1.18.3.5 is still unusable on x86_64.
>>
>> I am not crazy:
>>
>> http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-2303
>> http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-2477
>> http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-2518
>> http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-2565
>>
>> It is now clear that VBO is where the rapid, unbounded memory leak on
>> x86_64 lies. Turning off VBO makes it at least somewhat usable. I'm not
>> sure why the memory leak doesn't seem to happen on i386. Its still much
>> slower, and RAM usage is still much higher, than 1.18.0.6, and that
>> seems to be true on i386 as well. And I don't think the lack of VBO
>> entirely accounts for it. The VBO leak doesn't seem to be the only
>> problem, which is why I'm hesitant to dupe all those bugs together.
>>
>> So much for message liberation. I asked previously about disabling the
>> optional update check. It seems now I need to disable the required
>> update as well:
>>
>> --- linden.orig/indra/newview/llstartup.cpp     2007-10-04 10:09:56.000000000 -0500
>> +++ linden.patched/indra/newview/llstartup.cpp  2007-10-04 09:43:55.000000000 -0500
>> @@ -201,7 +201,6 @@
>>  LLPointer<LLImageGL> gStartImageGL;
>>  
>>  static LLHost gAgentSimHost;
>> -static BOOL gSkipOptionalUpdate = FALSE;
>>  
>>  bool gUseQuickTime = true;
>>  bool gQuickTimeInitialized = false;
>> @@ -339,12 +338,7 @@
>>         gViewerWindow->handlePerFrameHover();
>>         LLMortician::updateClass();
>>  
>> -       if (gNoRender)
>> -       {
>> -               // HACK, skip optional updates if you're running drones
>> -               gSkipOptionalUpdate = TRUE;
>> -       }
>> -       else
>> +       if (!gNoRender)
>>         {
>>                 // Update images?
>>                 gImageList.updateImages(0.01f);
>> @@ -960,7 +954,7 @@
>>                         lastname.c_str(),
>>                         password.c_str(),
>>                         start.str().c_str(),
>> -                       gSkipOptionalUpdate,
>> +                       TRUE,
>>                         gAcceptTOS,
>>                         gAcceptCriticalMessage,
>>                         gViewerDigest,
>> @@ -1122,7 +1116,7 @@
>>                                         // Clear the password
>>                                         password = "";
>>                                 }
>> -                               if(reason_response && (0 == strcmp(reason_response, "update")))
>> +                               if(FALSE && reason_response && (0 == strcmp(reason_response, "update")))
>>                                 {
>>                                         auth_message = gUserAuthp->getResponse("message");
>>                                         if (show_connect_box)
>> @@ -1144,7 +1138,6 @@
>>                                         {
>>                                                 update_app(FALSE, auth_message);
>>                                                 gStartupState = STATE_UPDATE_CHECK;
>> -                                               gSkipOptionalUpdate = TRUE;
>>                                                 return FALSE;
>>                                         }
>>                                 }
>> diff -urN -x '*.orig' -x '*.rej' -x '*~' -x '.*' -x '*-linux-client-release' linden.orig/indra/newview/lluserauth.cpp linden.patched/indra/newview/lluserauth.cpp
>> --- linden.orig/indra/newview/lluserauth.cpp    2007-07-11 17:17:02.000000000 -0500
>> +++ linden.patched/indra/newview/lluserauth.cpp 2007-10-04 10:19:01.000000000 -0500
>> @@ -121,9 +121,7 @@
>>         XMLRPC_VectorAppendString(params, "start", start, 0);
>>         char buffer[MAX_STRING];                /* Flawfinder: ignore */
>>         // the version is treated as a single string
>> -       snprintf(buffer, MAX_STRING, "%d.%d.%d.%d", 
>> -               LL_VERSION_MAJOR, LL_VERSION_MINOR, LL_VERSION_PATCH, LL_VIEWER_BUILD); /* Flawfinder: ignore */
>> -       XMLRPC_VectorAppendString(params, "version", buffer, 0);
>> +       XMLRPC_VectorAppendString(params, "version", "1.18.99.99", 0);
>>         XMLRPC_VectorAppendString(params, "channel", gChannelName.c_str(), 0);
>>         XMLRPC_VectorAppendString(params, "platform", PLATFORM_STRING, 0);
>>         XMLRPC_VectorAppendString(params, "mac", hashed_mac.c_str(), 0);
>>
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