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App Update / Win Installer status – 2010-12-17
December 17th, 2010 by rstrong
Mainly worked on backporting / landing mozilla-1.9.2 fixes and tests over the last couple of weeks. The combined size of all the 1.9.2 patches I landed on Tuesday were 433 KB and I still have 146 KB of patches for 1.9.2 waiting on review. Progress: Landed on mozilla-1.9.2 for Firefox 3.6.14 – Bug 601518 [Toolkit] [...]
Application Update file fragmentation and the new lack thereof
December 4th, 2010 by rstrong
Most of this last week I worked on backporting app update tests to 1.9.2 but there was one significant landing (Bug 570058). When updating with a partial update the files created when patching will be allocated before they are written to prevent fragmentation. This is done using platform specific API’s so the files have minimal [...]