Update 0.1.4.0_beta10 [git] --toolchain, --perl

deefster · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 19 Apr 2004 Posts: 77

Feature request -

I saw this in a recent GWN: http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gmn/20080930-newsletter.xml

You can check which running processes need to be restarted after an emerge.
For example, I just ran this command on my system:

JackieKu · n00b Joined: 14 Dec 2008 Posts: 1

Hi, I'm using 0.1.4.0_pre5, I got some problems about "-r" (resume). It seems 'update' wipes out state files when it receives signals. So I can't resume it after I press Ctrl+C or 'update --stop'. Is it intent by behavior (which is not the same with emerge), or it is a bug?

iMike · Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 8:55 pm Post subject: WARN Format Error

I get

steveL · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 2:16 pm Post subject:

Ooh nice one deefster, will look at that this week.

JackieKu that's a bug; if it's keywords or package.mask that was fixed a while back in git, along with a bit more support for --recover when resuming. Sorry I've just been pushing there as things have been hectic last few months and I haven't had any of the usual help (QA and coding both.)

git clone git://weaver.gentooenterprise.com/update.git will get you the latest one (in subdir 'update' of cwd). It should be fairly robust, as only minor tweaks have been added since then. If you can test it and let us know how you get on, that'll be great: I'll push that one out if you don't spot anything major (besides the issue Mike's pointed out which will be fixed before I push it to front page.) saveLog (blame Zorry;) is the only new feature.

iMike: yeah that's a bug, damn. Workaround is just comment out that line in /etc/warning or delete it if you're past the issue. (Make sure you've asked in #gentoo or your system may not reboots aiui.) Interesting, as I updated the ABI stuff, though I seem to recall uberp mentioning that one. I'll bbl and will get on it in next 24 (might take a day or so more to get done, depends on how much work is flying at me.)

What we really need is more people adding warnings somehow; I held off on the e2fslibs thing as I was told it had been sorted, but would have been worth just having the blocker in there from day one; easy enough to delete it once it was done. Hmm update -s should check if there's a new warning or indeed a new update (maybe have a release branch for that.. meh I'm useless at vcs.)

Happy New Year to you all and thanks for the feedback :-) Damn, I've missed the forums in the last few weeks..

BTW there's some BASH tips here and two posts further down, if anyone's interested in learning more; http://phpfi.com/385434 is the earliest backup of update I have, and I think I might go back to that to rework it for 2.2. So, if you feel like hacking, just do it; you can't break anyone else's system ;-) most that'll happen is emerge will get called to install something which can be CTRL-C'ed.

rickj · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 5:14 pm Post subject:

http://phpfi.com/ seems to be down at present

rickj · Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 6:44 pm Post subject:

This is the best updater I've seen.

One minor point - am I missing something, or does the present script defeat parallel fetching? It appears to download each item as it comes to it, regardless of the parallel-fetch option in make.conf.

ppurka · Advocate Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 3256

rickj · Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 7:33 pm Post subject:

Right, ppurka, thanks - that's very clear.

What is really going on here is that this script was written to anticipate the --quiet mode of the newest emerge, back in the day when emerge was unreasonably prolix. The result shows more output than the latest emerge quiet mode, but hugely less than the old emerge "show everything you can get" style. I quite like the compromise in update, which is informative, but fairly terse.

StephanX · n00b Joined: 29 Oct 2007 Posts: 19 Location: Germany

jmbsvicetto · Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 12:58 pm Post subject:

swimmer · Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 2:13 pm Post subject:

Hmm - why does SteveL ask you to convey something? Is this script still maintained? Haven't had any updates in the repository for quite some time ...

And since I'm writing here anyway: I have problems to change use-flags in the list of updates ... I always get this error:

Naib · Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 3:55 pm Post subject:

Naib · Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 9:51 am Post subject:

And its back

http://weaver.gentooexperimental.org/src/update/update-20110116.tar.bz2
_________________
#define HelloWorld int
#define Int main()
#define Return printf
#define Print return
#include <stdio>
HelloWorld Int {
Return("Hello, world!\n");
Print 0;

keenblade · Veteran Joined: 03 Oct 2004 Posts: 1087

steveL · Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 3:21 pm Post subject:

Naib · Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 3:34 pm Post subject:

steveL · Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 11:07 pm Post subject:

There's a bug in that version ("there are no ebuilds to satisfy "uDNpv".) This: http://weaver.gentooexperimental.org/src/update/update-20110117.tar.bz2 fixes it.

Hammad · n00b Joined: 08 Dec 2010 Posts: 2

Me too facing some problem, although have copied the directly these threads, anyway trying to check, may be i had written something before it that is not working with it.

steveL · Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 4:04 pm Post subject: Re: Code Error

steveL · Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 3:08 am Post subject:

depclean now checks the slot for the package and deals fine with ebuilds no longer in tree. (I came across this with gentoo-sources.) I've pushed the new version to front post. It's at: http://weaver.gentooexperimental.org/src/update/update-20110204.tar.bz2

Hopefully we'll get the bug tracker working again soon.

Regards,
steveL.

steveL · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 12:27 am Post subject: install to world bugfixes

New version: http://weaver.gentooexperimental.org/src/update/update-20110207.tar.bz2
md5sum: cc3194140d0f4b16f2e4b59795291ab4

There's a problem with installing to world in prior versions; packages are only installed as pkg:slot even when only pkg is given. Further, the 20110204 release wasn't installing anything to world. Earlier versions I'm not sure about. Either way, if you've been using this to install to world, check your world file. The slot issue appears to be a relatively recent change to portage, as my old laptop has lots of stuff in world, all installed by update.

You should also review eg /etc/portage/package.keywords and .unmask etc on a regular basis. I have some unmasking stuff done by update going back to June 08(!) on my laptop, in keywords for ~arch packages; often just for one version which will already be obsolete.

Kelly · n00b Joined: 08 Feb 2011 Posts: 1 Location: ISRAEL

cool, 10x