Launcher script not updated

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I installed discouse on digitalocean via the beginner docker method. I installed updates via the admin/docker url and today updated docker manually to 0.11.1 - I had a problem that the launcher script was not updated and still at the version before this commit here - Better logic to determine required Docker version · discourse/discourse_docker@6066840 · GitHub - that didn’t detect 0.11 as a valid version.

Is it a bug that the launcher script wasn’t updated? Or was there something else I should have been doing to update it? I’m sure I had done updates on the admin/docker page more recently than this commit - I actually first installed docker/discourse on May 2nd.

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Launcher script has to be updated this way, from the command line:

cd /var/docker
git pull

The web-based updater is a different thing, and you update that via the discourse.example.com/admin/docker interface. The updater actually forces you to update it first, if it is out of date.

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I’m fairly certain it was out of date and the updater didn’t force me to run ‘git pull’.

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Can the launcher detect if it is out of date and nag people about the git pull @sam?

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yes, but I need to figure out how to do it async, don’t want to block it there.

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This thread is related - https://meta.discourse.org/t/keeping-discourse-docker-updated-need-to-manually-git-pull/15290

I had edited the launcher script so I had to delete it before ‘git pull’ worked. And I then ran destroy/bootstrap/start and all is well again.

If there is an update to the launcher script or another reason to run ‘git pull’ before updating the docker_manager let me know and I will test if the Docker Manager prompts me to run ‘git pull’ before updating. (edit - or should running ‘git pull’ before updating docker_manager be part of the documentation?)

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I want to fix this but I do consider this a feature not bug, its rather tricky to get it to work smoothly.