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authorNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2008-09-11 21:35:03 +0000
committerNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2008-09-11 21:35:03 +0000
commitc093a408c3b47bf50321d27e3bf91ebc0edd5bba (patch)
tree5957ad2f33a8590168af51035b1456e61a7baae6 /specs
parenta79030d897ec3eee41dbac2a251f18780858813c (diff)
Clarify that "ask permission" only applies to the section where it appears.
git-svn-id: file:///home/or/svnrepo/updater/trunk@16861 55e972cd-5a19-0410-ae62-a4d7a52db4cd
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-rw-r--r--specs/glider-spec.txt13
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/specs/glider-spec.txt b/specs/glider-spec.txt
index 9683079..5576887 100644
--- a/specs/glider-spec.txt
+++ b/specs/glider-spec.txt
@@ -119,8 +119,10 @@
- Now Glider has a set of packages to install. The format of
these packages will be platform-dependent: they could be pkg
files on OSX, MSI files on Win32, RPMs or DEBs on Linux, and
- so on. Glider should query the user for permission to start,
- then install the packages.
+ so on. Glider should query the user for permission to start
+ installing packages, then install the packages. (All other
+ steps should generally happen automatically, in the
+ background, without needing user intervention.)
1.1. The repository
@@ -574,7 +576,7 @@
5. Parameter setting and corner cases.
-5.1. Timing:
+5.1. Timing
The timestamp file SHOULD be regenerated every 15 minutes. Mirrors
SHOULD attempt to update every hour. Clients SHOULD accept a
@@ -622,6 +624,11 @@ F.3. Support for more download methods
Ozymandns, chunked downloads, and bittorrent would all be neat
ideas.
+F.4. Support for bogus clocks.
+
+ Glider should have a user configurable "no, my clock is _supposed_
+ to be wrong" mode, since lots of users seem to _like_ having their
+ clocks in 1970 forever.
R. Ideas I'm rejecting for the moment