By far WoeUSB is one of the few applications that support Windows image
and runs on GNU/Linux so I assume it is worth to mention it. Additional
line wrapping is made to comply to the code conventions.
Signed-off-by: 林博仁 <Buo.Ren.Lin@gmail.com>
Etcher supports disabling the update notification dialog by setting the
`ETCHER_DISABLE_UPDATES` environment variable.
In order to simplify disabling updates for when these are managed by a
package manager (e.g. in a debian package), this removes support for the
`ETCHER_DISABLE_UPDATES` environment variable, and instead requires
packagers to tweak the `updates.enabled` property of the package.json
file, which is set to `true` by default.
We don't want to encourage end users to disable the update mechanism, so
the documention was removed from `USER-DOCUMENTATION.md`. This option
will remain as something only packagers should tweak.
Change-Type: minor
Changelog-Entry: Remove support for the `ETCHER_DISABLE_UPDATES` environment variable.
Signed-off-by: Juan Cruz Viotti <jv@jviotti.com>
`etcher-latest-version` was kept in a separate repository in order to
re-use it with the Etcher website, however the Etcher website is not
using it at all, and we're moving towards having the website in the main
repository.
Therefore, this commit brings back the logic from
`etcher-latest-version`, but introduces it as
`lib/shared/s3-packages.js`, in order to not tie ourselves to the
AngularJS framework, and as a step towards the Etcher SDK.
As a nice little bonus, this commit adds support for an
`ETCHER_FAKE_S3_LATEST_VERSION` environment variable that can be used to
trick Etcher that there is an available update, and therefore show the
update notifier modal.
Also, this commit adds support for snapshot builds update-checks, by
checking the `resin-nightly-downloads` S3 bucket if the current version
contains a git commit hash build number.
If the version is not a production release, then the update notifier
modal doesn't present the checkbox to disable update notifications for X
days.
We also add a property called `updates.semverRange` to `package.json`,
which can be used to fine control which versions are considered as
candidates for an update notification.
This commit adds a setting called `includeUnstableChannel`, which can be
used to tweak whether unstable (beta) releases are considered or not
when checking for the latest available version.
See: https://github.com/resin-io-modules/etcher-latest-version
Fixes: https://github.com/resin-io/etcher/issues/953
Signed-off-by: Juan Cruz Viotti <jviotti@openmailbox.org>
The usual case is images requiring special treatment. We recommend the
users to use specialised tooling for those cases.
Signed-off-by: Juan Cruz Viotti <jviotti@openmailbox.org>
We're now including the version as part of the filename, which means
`Etcher-linux-x64` is no longer 100% accurate. As a solution, we include
a filename with "placeholders" for the version and architecture, to
avoid harcoding a specific version.
See: 18e9d1eb11 (commitcomment-19619181)
See: https://github.com/resin-io/etcher/pull/764
Signed-off-by: Juan Cruz Viotti <jviotti@openmailbox.org>
The AppImage `desktopintegration` prompt can also be disabled by setting
the `SKIP` environment variable.
As a matter of fact, we use this trick inside Etcher itself when
executing the Etcher CLI as a child process of the Etcher GUI.
Signed-off-by: Juan Cruz Viotti <jviotti@openmailbox.org>
Document the need to have a polkit authentication running in GNU/Linux
to be able to go through the authentication system.
Fixes: https://github.com/resin-io/etcher/issues/756
Signed-off-by: Juan Cruz Viotti <jviotti@openmailbox.org>
Sometimes a flash error ends up taking the user's drive in a state that
can't be easily recover with usual disk utility tools. For when this
happens, we add some documentation about fail-proof methods to recover
the drive.
Signed-off-by: Juan Cruz Viotti <jviotti@openmailbox.org>
This feature is very appealing when running Etcher ouside a common
desktop environment, for example, as a Resin.io application. In such a
platform, an update notifier that points the user to the website makes
no sense, since the platform itself is responsible for the update.
For such cases, we added support for an environment variable called
`ETCHER_DISABLE_UPDATES`, that when set, will prevent the update check
altogether.
Change-Type: minor
Changelog-Entry: Allow the user to disable auto-update notifications with an environment variable.
Signed-off-by: Juan Cruz Viotti <jviotti@openmailbox.org>
This entry documents all the GNU/Linux libraries needed to run Etcher.
Fixes: https://github.com/resin-io/etcher/issues/630
Signed-off-by: Juan Cruz Viotti <jviotti@openmailbox.org>
This entry roughly documents how to get Etcher running on Wayland by
using the XWayland Server.
Fixes: https://github.com/resin-io/etcher/issues/509
Signed-off-by: Juan Cruz Viotti <jviottidc@gmail.com>
Document that `parted` warnings about invalid GPT and physical block
size issues can be safely ignored as they are a consequence of "hybrid
iso's".
Fixes: https://github.com/resin-io/etcher/issues/312
Signed-off-by: Juan Cruz Viotti <jviottidc@gmail.com>
Document how to globally disable AppImage's desktop integration feature,
which promtps the user to create a desktop shortcut for the appliation
at startup.
Signed-off-by: Juan Cruz Viotti <jviottidc@gmail.com>
