[CSI] Community Software Installer 2.6.1 (OLD THREAD)

[Ger Teunis]

The current version of CSI is not downloading the appinit in the zip or during the install process. CSI is downloading the package zip file (application) and a file called installprepare.

The package contents and installprepare are uploaded to the NMT.
The install prepare will prepare your NMT for the installation of applications if required. Not only for appinit applications but also 'old school' applications. Installprepare will also detect if appinit is installed. If it's not installed it will download and start appinit. Appinit will install itself. If it's already installed it will not get downloaded and installed again.

After this appinit is called to install the application.
When appinit is executed a lot more is going on, too much to write down here. One of the things is an update check and install or upgrade of the package you selected.
More info regarding appinit is available in the first post.

After this CSI will remove the temporary files which it used.
I will not write the whole process down here: but there is a lot going on in CSI and appinit too much to describe here.
All is working very well especially if you look at the low number of issues in comparison to the usage stats (CSI is started well over 1800 times a day, 2.3GB of applications installed per day).

The new CSI version (to be released soon) will download AppInit by itself and upload that as well. This is added to support NMT's without an internet connection. But in this scenario installprepare will not download it again: because appinit is already installed.

Hope this answers some question.

(09-02-2009 01:48 PM)designcomputer Wrote:  I am just tiring to get a birds eye view of the install process. It looks like appinit.cgi is in the zip file so I am not sure if or why you are downloading it again from the web. I can always install by hand using telnet and the zip file.