Update mechanism via github releases

[ZyanKLee]

Current state: Makefile currently sets noisetorch.epicgamer.org as update url.

Target state:

• binaries published to GitHub releases are being used for updates.
• make sure we provide a toggle switch of some kind to disable the update notification 🔗

Depends on #272

[ZyanKLee]

When PR #272 is being merged, this issue has to be tackled next to get the update mechanism working again. Is there anybody that feels compelled to do this?

[principis]

For the person who will be working on this, make sure that the update mechanism can be disabled easily. This makes it much easier for package maintainers.

[ZyanKLee]

hey @principis, that is a great idea.

Currently it is relatively easy to disable the mechanism by removing the UPDATE_URL in line 1 of the Makefile. Doing that disables the update function in newly built packages. Would that be sufficient for what you need?

It currently is empty:

NoiseTorch/Makefile

Line 1 in e096c4c

UPDATE_URL=

So when you now build a binary you will not see the warning, for example.

[principis]

@ZyanKLee that's what I'm currently doing, and it's indeed sufficient! 🙂

In practice I skip the make file and only set the needed variables, but it's effectively the same: https://pagure.io/NoiseTorch/blob/rawhide/f/noisetorch.spec#_37