From 2119fec62887057772de9146310961f57760b9f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthias Schiffer Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2014 21:39:41 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] docs: formatting fixes --- docs/releases/v2014.3.rst | 16 ++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/releases/v2014.3.rst b/docs/releases/v2014.3.rst index b392cc74..ca38db6a 100644 --- a/docs/releases/v2014.3.rst +++ b/docs/releases/v2014.3.rst @@ -13,13 +13,17 @@ New autoupdater The autoupdater has been rewritten and now limits the time in which updates are performed normally to the span from 04:00 to 05:00. -The manifest now has two new fields: DATE specifies the time the update was released -and is set automatically by ``make manifest``. PRIORITY specifies the maximum number of -days until the update should be performed (thus lower numbers mean the priority is higher). It must -be set either in ``site.mk`` or on the ``make manifest`` command line. +The manifest now has two new fields: -During the days specified by PRIORITY the update probability will start at 0 and slowly rise to 1 -after all PRIORITY days have passed. If more than PRIORITY+1 days have passed, the updater will fall back +``DATE`` + Specifies the time the update was released and is set automatically by ``make manifest``. + +``PRIORITY`` + Specifies the maximum number of days until the update should be performed (thus lower numbers + mean the priority is higher). It must be set either in ``site.mk`` or on the ``make manifest`` command line. + +During the days specified by ``PRIORITY`` the update probability will start at 0 and slowly rise to 1 +after all ``PRIORITY`` days have passed. If more than ``PRIORITY+1`` days have passed, the updater will fall back to hourly update attempts so nodes which are never active between 04:00 and 05:00 also get an update eventually. **Note:** For the new update logic to work, a valid NTP server reachable over the mesh (over IPv6) must