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[cubber]

Thanks for that post Angelox! That should be helpful to a lot of people.

[cubber]

Cavedude,

I just updated to the latest PEQ CVS and noticed that my rules_values table is still identical to what it was before. When I update I just do drop_system.sql then load_system.sql, I noticed that when doing drop system I still have to comment out aa_swarmpets and merchantsets in order for it to complete without error. Then when I do a load_system.sql I have to comment out merchantsets because it still tries to load it even though it is not in cvs anymore.

Are these scripts going to get updated? Also how is rules_valuse supposed to get updated out of CVS if it is only included in the load_player script? If I have a db that I am updating I do not want to drop_player , load_player to get the new rules_values table cause I would loose all of my player data.

Can I just do a mysql -u root -p -v -D eqemu < rules_values.sql to get my whole DB up to date after I do a load_system.sql?

[cavedude]

No, those scripts will not be updated because those tables are no longer needed and people still have them. Data in this community has the way of sticking around, and confusing people years later, so this is my way of purging the system Just source with verbose mode off (drop the -v) and it'll skip right past them. *Releases will not have this issue, only tables contained in the release will be sourced/droped*

rule_values is a player script because it is a table commonly changed by the end user. Having it as a system table would piss people off with tweaked rulesets. Having a third category is not an option because I am too lazy to update PEQ's script, and quite frankly having two scripts confuses many people as is, adding a third would make matters worse.

Yes, any and all tables can be sourced in separately. rule_values, commands, variables, etc. I don't recommend doing this for system tables because obviously many tables are linked together, so sourcing in one without the other will create errors and/or features to not function.

[cubber]

Thanks for the reply, it is understandable that you want to cause as little confusion as possible.

So if I understand you correctly... If I just source in the new rules_values.sql to my updated database, I will be good to go with a fully updated database without any issues? If I made any changes to my old rules_values table I obviously will have to go back and make those changes again because they will get reset to default.

But sourcing in anything that is in the load_system.sql file by itself will cause problems...

I just want to be clear before I do this to my year old database.

[cubber]

One other question, I noticed that tables like variables and commands have been updated as well. Is it worth updating these to the newest revisions also or are the updates mostly comments and such? If so a list of tables that are considered "player scripts" that should be watched for changes and updated manually would be helpful.

Thanks again for your help!

[cavedude]

Yep, you are completely correct.

The only player table that would see any real updates is rule_values. commands, launcher, launcher_zones, rule_sets and variables are tables that are also easily changed, but they won't be updated by PEQ. They are all pretty much one time setup tables.

[cubber]

Just to be 100% clear and to sum up the thread to mark it solved:

So whenever I update the database via cvs by using load_system.sql, I can also safely update the following tables manually without any repercussions on my character info or my system as long as I take note of any values that I modified and reapply them accordingly?

rule_values
commands
launcher
launcher_zones
rule_sets
variables

I take it that I need to drop the old table first then source in the new ones?

Thanks for clarifying this

[circuitdragon]

I really hope I am not going to cause any more confusion here, but just a few quick questions. I have made CVS as my way of getting updates for PEQ. Now, maybe I am over working myself on this here, but I skip the "drop_system", "Load_system" and such, and instead only source the sql's that have a newer time stamp. Thus far its not had any issues, just trying to figure if I have made bad habits. Next question is, which is better, to download the PEQ databse from ProjectEQ's site, or...is the CVS the newest possible in any scenerio?