When i start the assistant, it's nicely telling me:
[2015-05-27 20:15:20 UTC] Upgrader: An upgrade of git-annex is available. (version 5.20150522)
That's really cool, but it's not actually upgrading. I looked around the website to understand how that worked and i found git-annex-upgrade and upgrades but those pages were not really useful, as they talk more about repository upgrades, and not the automated upgrade system. I was expecting upgrades to talk a bit about automated upgrades, or maybe the install page...
i am running 5.20150508-g883d57f, with a standalone image installed by root in /opt. Should that directory be writable by the user running git-annex to solve this?
Thanks! --anarcat
The assistant checks for available upgrades a few times a day. By default, it only pops up a message in the webapp with an upgrade button.
annex.autoupgrade can configure this, so the assistant can be made to upgrade without confirmation if you want.
The upgrade process needs to move the git-annex.linux directory out of the way and replace it with a new one from the tarball, so it will only work if the user running the assistant can write to it.