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Lightweight Tox client
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Clean up old firewall rules #1043

Closed LittleVulpix closed 8 years ago

LittleVulpix commented 9 years ago

Not sure if this is a problem on Linux, but on windows, since each utox binary has the version name embedded in it, you will end up with tons of old redundant firewall rules.

Is it possible to remove these programmatically? Since someone could be using multiple versions at the same time, it should be possible to check whether the target binary exists, and if not, remove the firewall rule for utox.

Sample of the current state of utox firewall rules of someone who's been using it for a long time:

Firewall

tsudoko commented 9 years ago

Thought the new updater fixed it by using a single executable name.

LittleVulpix commented 9 years ago

@tsudoko "new updater" ? I updated today and it still gets the binary as win64-0.3.0. Is the new updater in the works, or something I have to get separately? : o

tsudoko commented 9 years ago

I think it's been out for a while. https://github.com/notsecure/utox-update/releases/download/latest/utox_runner.zip

LittleVulpix commented 9 years ago

@tsudoko Oh, you are right! Thank you! Would it be possible for the utox_updater to update itself? Or at least tell the user to do so? I've been using the older updater probably, but I had no idea it had been updated.

Additionally, since utox is now called utox.exe regardless of the version, would it be possible to remove those old entries programmatically, or is that not feasible?

GrayHatter commented 9 years ago

@LittleVulpix it's a compile time option, you can compile that feature in yourself. Or wait until the settings page is fixed and it'll be an option added in there

LittleVulpix commented 9 years ago

@GrayHatter I'll wait for the page; after all, I am able to get rid of those entries myself; it's more for people who don't want to fiddle about with their firewall settings. Should I leave this issue open?

GrayHatter commented 9 years ago

yeah, until someone makes a decision on what we're going to do with this, it should stay open. Either way theres' a few people who have all these rules. And it also lets us know how many want to see an updater rolled into the utox bin

matti-san commented 9 years ago

Yes, please roll updater into the utox bin.