added buttons for fixing some problems and alike

I will likely add more buttons in the future, but for now this is most
of the ones a user could need to repair problems.

2 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/modules/requests.js b/src/modules/requests.js
index 94639fa..a67bc26 100644
--- a/src/modules/requests.js
+++ b/src/modules/requests.js
@@ -27,6 +27,12 @@ function _getRequestsCache() {
     }
 }
 
+function delete_cache() {
+	if (fs.existsSync(cachePath)) {
+		return fs.rmSync(cachePath);
+	}
+}
+
 // Returns latest Northstar version available from GitHub releases. If
 // there's no cache result for this request, or if cache exists but is
 // old, refreshes cache with new data.
@@ -182,6 +188,7 @@ async function getVpReleaseNotes() {
 }
 
 module.exports = {
+	delete_cache,
     getLatestNsVersion, 
     getLatestNsVersionLink,
     getNsReleaseNotes,
diff --git a/src/modules/update.js b/src/modules/update.js
index 087cbd9..c2d10d3 100644
--- a/src/modules/update.js
+++ b/src/modules/update.js
@@ -150,7 +150,10 @@ update.viper = (autoinstall) => {
 // as to handle not overwriting files we rename certain files to
 // <file>.excluded, then rename them back after the extraction. The
 // unzip module does not support excluding files directly.
-update.northstar = async () => {
+//
+// `force_install` makes this function not care about whether or not
+// we're already up-to-date, forcing the install
+update.northstar = async (force_install) => {
 	if (await is_running.game()) {
 		console.error(lang("general.auto_updates.game_running"));
 		return false;
@@ -170,7 +173,7 @@ update.northstar = async () => {
 	}
 
 	// Makes sure it is not already the latest version
-	if (! await northstar_update_available()) {
+	if (! force_install && ! await northstar_update_available()) {
 		ipcMain.emit("ns-update-event", "cli.update.uptodate_short");
 		console.ok(lang("cli.update.uptodate").replace("%s", ns_version));