[qutebrowser] Updating

Florian Bruhin me at the-compiler.org
Fri Oct 6 14:27:06 CEST 2017


Hey Trevor,

On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 09:22:30AM +0000, Trevor Robertson wrote:
> Hi  ... What is the best way to update Qutebrowser to a newer version? I
> currently have 0.10.1 on Windows 10 Home that I installed manually, on my
> home PC.
> Maybe I'm overlooking an update button or command. If I simply download &
> install it again: Must I uninstall the old one first?

Copy and pasting from a mail I sent to someone off-list recently:

Right, there is no updater. The reason is that doing this kind of thing right
is really difficult, both from a security perspective (see e.g. 1.5.2 at
https://github.com/theupdateframework/tuf/blob/develop/docs/tuf-spec.md ) and
from a functionality perspective (with all the different OS' and ways of
installing qutebrowser supports).

I might take a look at it some day, but it's probably quite some effort
benefiting a fraction of the userbase (most people are on Linux with a package
manager), so it's really not a priority.

You don't need to uninstall the old version, the installer should take care of
it automatically.

I added a note to the docs:
https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/commit/0d8edd54fbb0bfa4b846ec8da1b57bd1132ca30e

> Or is one of the command-line focused installation methods that you list
> for Windows the nicest one for frequent updating.

You might want to try Chocolatey: https://chocolatey.org/packages/qutebrowser
You'll still need to tell Chocolatey to update packages manually I think, but
it'll take care of upgrading everything you manage with it.

I don't have any personal experience with the qutebrowser package though, and
it's been some years since I last used Chocolatey (I'm not using Windows
regularily anymore). However, the maintainer seems to take great care of the
package and updates so far.

> Most important: Will my {custom keybindings} and {bookmarks} be kept?

They should be, yes. However, v1.0.0 will come out soon-ish which has a
completely new config system, so you'll need to reconfigure things once
upgrading to that. This is a one-time thing though.

> Say if I should I rather ask such questions on Freenote Webchat. .... I
> would just like to be able to read your replies at work too; We can access
> gmail at work but not Freenode.

Don't worry, the mailinglist is fine.

Florian

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