Show more useful information in case things go wrong

Open probonopd opened this issue 6 years ago • 1 comments

I know that there are some command line tool commands but it would be nice if in case of an error the user would get more information.

Nov 07 '19 21:11 probonopd

By the way, in this case the text is entirely misleading.

The reason here is that the AppImage is on a read-only partition!

$ /isodevice/Applications/AppImageUpdate-x86_64.AppImage /isodevice/Applications/AppImageUpdate-x86_64.AppImage
AppImageUpdate version 1-alpha (commit e17e350), build 422 built on 2019-10-13 13:17:11 UTC
Fetching release information for tag "continuous" from GitHub API.
Updating from GitHub Releases via ZSync
open: Permission denied
zsync2: Failed to parse .zsync file!
zsync2: Reading and/or parsing .zsync file failed!

https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageUpdate/issues/1 describes what should happen when the AppImage is on a read-only partition - AppImageUpdate should try to become root. As a fallback, write the new file to $HOME/Downloads. But not fail!

Nov 07 '19 21:11 probonopd