electron-updater on win32 downloads universal setup instead of arhitecture specific installer

[ferretwithaberet]

• Electron-Builder Version: 22.13.1

• Node Version: 16.5.0

• Electron Version: 15.4.0
• Electron Type (current, beta, nightly): current
• Electron-Updater version: 4.6.5

• Target: win32 x64, ia32, arm64

electron-updater downloads the universal installer instead of the architecture specific one(which is smaller in size). Is there any configuration I need to add to make it get the architecture specific one

[mmaietta]

I think it's hardcoded to look for universal. It doesn't know if there's arch-specific ones available nsis does support differential downloads though, so I think after you're on the current version, it'll be a differential download to the next universal update? https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/blob/master/packages/electron-updater/src/NsisUpdater.ts#L45-L47 I'm not familiar with this part of the updater

[ferretwithaberet]

I think it's hardcoded to look for universal. It doesn't know if there's arch-specific ones available nsis does support differential downloads though, so I think after you're on the current version, it'll be a differential download to the next universal update? https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/blob/master/packages/electron-updater/src/NsisUpdater.ts#L45-L47 I'm not familiar with this part of the updater

Isn't that for nsis-web, I am using the nsis target.

[mmaietta]

Ack, good callout. That's correct.

The original behavior was for electron-builder to only produce a single universal installer, that was what the electron-updater was designed around. A later feature request was to provide individual installers, but that logic isn't easily propagated to electron-updater