glcu - gentoo linux cron update (python version)

linolium · Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 3:54 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the quick response Michael.

untiefe · Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 8:28 am Post subject:

Hello again,

linolium · Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 9:31 pm Post subject:

untiefe,

It seems to just go by the installation part without showing any emerging. I thought this was normal but now I understand that GLCU does not hide this information. When it asked me to update Portage it showed all of the emerging, but when I say "Y" to install the prebuilt packages it does nothing except go to the dispatch-conf step.

What's the best way to debug this?

linolium · Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 3:43 am Post subject:

Nevermind... I figured it out. It looks like the program does not accept capital letters of Y or N for answering questions. I fixed this by changing lines 76-79 as follows:

untiefe · Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 8:15 am Post subject:

Hi Londinium,
I could have sworn, that it worked with capital letters without the IGNORECASE. Anyway, thanks for the patch!

Bye, Michael

P.S.: I always press ENTER without any letter (that's what the capital Y should say anyway. yes is the default value!)
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glcu - gentoo linux cron update (full featured semi-automatic updates via cron)

aconcagua · n00b Joined: 17 Oct 2005 Posts: 65

Hi !
I use glcu 0.9.7.1 for some time now but I got this email :

untiefe · Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 7:28 am Post subject:

Hi aconcagua,

I don't really know what happend here, but it may have to do with an glsa and emerge update...

Please do a manual update of your system (with -k you can even use the prebuilt packages) and next time it will probably be fine...

Bye, Michael
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aconcagua · n00b Joined: 17 Oct 2005 Posts: 65

Thank you for your help.

I did a manual update but it's getting worse : here is the mail I received this morning :

untiefe · Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 7:26 am Post subject:

Hi aconcagua,
that is really strange. As a first guess, please remove all old freetype packages:

nobbie · Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 9:05 pm Post subject:

Hi, Michael.

thanks for the awesome script, i've been very happy with it for quite a while.

however, recently, i've been getting the same issue that aconcagua is having, where the version number of the package isn't being specified, and then it is failing:

untiefe · Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 6:55 am Post subject:

Hi nobbie,

I really don't know what it could be, so please do the following stuff first and see if the problem remains:

1. Remove all file packages

TvL · n00b Joined: 30 Mar 2005 Posts: 15

I love glcu and I've been using it for a very long time.
Since 2008-08-01 I am getting multiple "dev-lang/python" rows, which is very weird.

untiefe · Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 6:42 pm Post subject:

Hi TVL,

I think this problem is related to glsa - sometimes whitespaces are no real whitespaces there, and glcu can't work out the real names. Anyway, I always suggest to update your computer once manually (emerge world or system and glsa-check as well, if you use it) and normally this problem will be gone then. You can also remove all precompiled packages in /usr/portage/packages/All

By the way, I just released a new version (0.9.7.2) to get rid of another python problem (with the sre and re packages, after the python update...)
You can find the ebuild here: http://www.panhorst.com/glcu/Download.html

Enjoy glcu ;-)

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drescherjm · Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 4:56 pm Post subject:

I am getting this:

drescherjm · Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 6:14 pm Post subject:

Also is it possible to have the machine name in the email? I have dozens of gentoo machines.
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ToeiRei · Veteran Joined: 03 Jan 2005 Posts: 1191 Location: Austria

the glcu project looks pretty dead to me :/
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drescherjm · Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 1:42 pm Post subject:

If there was not an update on Monday I would agree with that.
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untiefe · Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 7:27 pm Post subject:

Hi everyone,

1st: The glcu project is pretty much dead (anyone who wants to do something about it is welcome)
2nd: glcu still works pretty well
3rd: I'll try to keep glcu alive, but there will be no real development ( I don't have time enough for this)

And some short answers to the questions above:

@drescherjm: The name of the machine should be in the subject line of the eMail from glcu

@everyone with problems using glcu (including drescherjm):

Please update your gentoo box completely by hand (including emerge world/system and glsa-check), remove all old distfiles from /usr/portage/distfiles (or use eclean) and remove all prebuilt packages from /usr/portage/packages/All before you ask about glcu problems. Most problems are gone when you update your gentoo box once by hand (which you would have to do always without glcu!). Then thoroughly check the glcu website (glcu.sf.net) and this forum thread for possible solutions.

When you have done all this, ask your question here, or write me an eMail. Then I'm very happy to help you.

Have fun, Michael
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drescherjm · Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 1:03 pm Post subject:

untiefe · Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 6:55 pm Post subject:

Hi drescherjm,

you need to set your hostname in

drescherjm · Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 8:30 pm Post subject:

untiefe · Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 8:44 pm Post subject:

aaah, there is my bug :roll:

glcu will only find the hostname if HOSTNAME is written with capital letters...

You can change in line 291 of glcu.py "grep HOSTNAME" to "grep -i HOSTNAME" - then it'll work.

Sorry, I just copied the old hostname file to the new location, and there it was written with capital letters.

Bye, Michael
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glcu - gentoo linux cron update (full featured semi-automatic updates via cron)

drescherjm · Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 8:51 pm Post subject:

Thank You. Looks like it is working now.

bfdi533 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 11 Jun 2003 Posts: 133

I just found this project and this is slick. I am trying to run it after editing /etc/glcu.conf and get the following and cannot seem to figure out why: