Few custombuild features stopped working after 1.648 update

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Hello,

i'm hovering for some time on answers here but didn't found them yet. After 1.648 update custombuild stopped mailing me about available updates. Cron section was not touched and looks like this:
# Cronjob Settings
cron=yes
cron_frequency=daily
email=[email protected] (fictional mail here)
notifications=yes
updates=no
webapps_updates=no
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./build cron gives:
da build cron
Cronjob is set for [email protected]: (fictional mail here)
Cronjob frequency: daily
Automatic notifications: yes
Automatic updates: no
Installing sa-update cronjob...
Automatic SpamAssassin rule updates: daily
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There is no custombuild file in /etc/cron.daily -

I'm currently on 1.649 version - few custombuild commands like ./build set_fastest stopped working too. I can execute build versions or update software with build.
How can i fix this issue ? Changing branch to beta - update, changing back and update again might be ok but i don't want to do it of there is other solution to this. I didn't tried it yet.
 
kamolot said:
How can i fix this issue ?
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You can't.
Check the changelogs of the DA versions. The custombuild plugin is removed from Enhanced skin, now only present in Evo skin.

DA has stopped using different mirrors, which in some occasions could cause issues. So the ./build fastest will not work anymore. The "mirror" statement is also gone from the options.conf as DA is now using only files.directadmin.com for everything.

New updates from php, apache, mysql etc. are now done via DA releases.

You can still use the old way to update, you first have to update DA, and then you can do a ./build update and ./build update_versions to update php/apache/mysql etc. if there are updates.

Downside.... if DA is not updated, then you won't have automatic php etc. updates either. I'm also not happy with that.

Yeah indeed... we won't be getting e-mails about new versions, would be nice to have some update on that so we will get new updates.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but that is how I understood how it's now.
 
I'm still getting email notifs, even with nothing in /etc/cron.daily - I assume it's now checked via dataskq?
 
Another downside - if your DA is not updated for some time (e.g. 1.63.x), your DA may stop running due to its license key update failure.


Richard G said:
You can't.
Check the changelogs of the DA versions. The custombuild plugin is removed from Enhanced skin, now only present in Evo skin.

DA has stopped using different mirrors, which in some occasions could cause issues. So the ./build fastest will not work anymore. The "mirror" statement is also gone from the options.conf as DA is now using only files.directadmin.com for everything.

New updates from php, apache, mysql etc. are now done via DA releases.

You can still use the old way to update, you first have to update DA, and then you can do a ./build update and ./build update_versions to update php/apache/mysql etc. if there are updates.

Downside.... if DA is not updated, then you won't have automatic php etc. updates either. I'm also not happy with that.

Yeah indeed... we won't be getting e-mails about new versions, would be nice to have some update on that so we will get new updates.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but that is how I understood how it's now.
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ccto said:
your DA may stop running due to its license key update failure.
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Are you sure? I think @fln said that it would keep running, you just won't get new php etc. updates via directadmin. As long as the key is valid things should keep working.
 
ccto said:
Another downside - if your DA is not updated for some time (e.g. 1.63.x), your DA may stop running due to its license key update failure.
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Yes, DA 1.63.x is no longer compatible with the licensing sub-system. Running it will end up with incompatible version, please upgrade DirectAdmin error message.
 
Running old DirectAdmin versions is not something we would recommend or encourage doing.

The easiest way to see if there are updates is checking DA version page. It will show that update is available and would give a link to new version change-log where all changes new version would bring (including 3rd party updates) will be visible.
 
fln said:
Running old DirectAdmin versions is not something we would recommend or encourage doing.
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Well sometimes it's needed because lately there were various issues every time which needed to be fixed. So some of us rather wait for the stable version.
We are here on the forums so for us it's not a very big issue. But many DA customers are not, which is why it's pity there is no option anymore to get a mail that new versions of LAMP are available like was done via the cron, unless they use the forums.
And ofcourse personally I'm still not happy with that php etc. update integration into DA, but it's a choice I have to live with.
 
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