glcu - gentoo linux cron update (python version)

TvL · n00b Joined: 30 Mar 2005 Posts: 15

Hi,

Good luck in the USA.
Btw, for the issue mentioned above, I created a glcu-update.sh bash script which takes the latest glcuUpdate file (ls -trah | grep glcuUpdate | tail -n 1).
When I received an email from my box, I run glcu-update.sh and lazy me is happy.

I was wondering if it would be cool to extend glcu a bit, so that you can tell glcu to compile new software at night. I want to compile something, but not during the day.
So, a cronjob would be good for that, or fire a screen and type sleep 3h; emerge <package> but it might be cool to tell glcu to create some packages while performing an update.

Thanks for the great tool.

untiefe · Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 2:31 pm Post subject:

Hi,

bobpaul · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Aug 2005 Posts: 148

Great script!

How about a configurable nice level in the glcu.conf file. I like to run cron jobs at +19 so they don't interfere with the server. I'm probably going to copy glcu out of cron.daily and replace it with:

untiefe · Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 2:55 pm Post subject:

pioto · Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 3:39 pm Post subject:

Hmm... I'm wondering if glcu could remove the old glcuUpdate files... they're all incremental, really, so why not have it just keep one copy around? I know that sometimes I don't run the update script because I'm off and away.

Or maybe there could be a user-specifiable name for the update file; I know you seemed concerned a bit by the potential risk posed by having a standard naming scheme for it? The johntheripper password checker uses something like that for its private working data, the location is kept in a configuration file with 0600 permissions on it, owned by root.

Just throwing some random thoughts out there, feel free to ignore. Keep up the good work!

coutts99 · Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 12:07 pm Post subject:

Seems to work good on sparc

untiefe · Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 12:47 pm Post subject:

bobpaul · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Aug 2005 Posts: 148

Ok. It's creating the files in /tmp, but isn't e-mailing me. I'm not sure if this is relevant anymore as the e-mail command fails:

untiefe · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 7:55 am Post subject:

bobpaul · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Aug 2005 Posts: 148

Negated Void · l33t Joined: 25 Dec 2002 Posts: 672

mmkay. Here's some questions.

I have a bunch of glc-whatever files in /tmp if i leave it for a couple days - do i have to run them all in order? Only the most recent? If i run them out of order, will it de-merge things?

untiefe · Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 8:03 am Post subject:

PiRmD · Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 6:17 am Post subject:

Hallo untiefe,

I'm trying your script and I must admit I'm begining to love it. Thanks to have spend time for this nice piece of software!

I would like to give *my* feelings on how to improve glcu, well I'm not sure these ideas will really improve your script but at least bring it more close to the way I plan to use it.

I usually don't have my computer running all the time, sothat it happened to me to "lose" some glcu updates because my laptop was switch off the day glcu should have run. I usually face this situation by relyiong on fcron features that can run a cron job even if eth laptop is not continously runing (I also recently discover that the run-crons script can help to obtain the same behaviour). This doesn't work well with glcu due to the fact that the "cronday" is defined within the glcu configuration file, so that if fcron wants to run it let's say saturday instead of friday as defined in glcu.conf, glcu refuses to work.

So basically I would propose to:
- have the schedule of glcu removed from the glcu.conf file and directly managed from my crontab (or by links in my cron.* directory)
- the "customization" between different glcu (e.g. one daily for security update, one weekly for world upgrade, one monthly for whatever you want...) is done today in the config file through the "rerunconfig" option. Beside the fact that it is a bit confusing for me on how to use it, why not have the nmame of eth conf file to use be tranmitted to the script as an argument like :

untiefe · Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 10:42 am Post subject:

Hi PiRmD,

PiRmD · Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 5:03 am Post subject:

HI untiefe,

thank you for your quick reaction and for your useful tips. I will try to use "cronday: 0" with my fcron setup. I imagine that in this case, I have also to create another glcu link in cron.weekly.

I'm looking forward your next release of glcu!

nianderson · Guru Joined: 06 May 2003 Posts: 369 Location: Lawrence, KS

Hey i like your script ... helping me keep my boxes more up to date. I dont have the email notification working yet but I can work that out if i really want to look into it. How is the next version comming?

untiefe · Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 6:51 am Post subject:

I'm sorry to say this, but it is quite difficult for me to integrate the pkgcore code (pkgcore will be portage-3 someday), especially because pkgcore is still in an early development stage. Furthermore, my Job and my private life is more time consuming than before, therefore the next version will take some more time...
But 0.9.7.1 still works well for my gentoo boxes, therefore it is not that urgant ;-)

nianderson · Guru Joined: 06 May 2003 Posts: 369 Location: Lawrence, KS

No not urgent just curious about the patches to remove extra glcu-updatexxxx files and stuff. Note: im not prodding you to work on it i know how it is to get busy with other things. appriciate the script.

safeness · Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 9:59 pm Post subject:

Is glcu included in any of the overlays in layman? It would be great if there were a more automated way to update it.

psychomunky · Guru Joined: 02 Nov 2004 Posts: 337 Location: Canada

Speaking of layman, how hard would it be to make a patch and include support in the next revision to update any layman repositories that you have around? I think that this would be similar to the way you handle eix support now. I am more and more going outwards towards the "unstable" gentoo stuff out there, and right now, manually added a 'layman -S' command to sync my layman repositories. It would be nice if glcu could sync them at the same time it syncs my main copy of the portage tree.

Currently, I am using 0.9.7.1 and it is working well on two boxes of mine (one that has been using glcu since I first found the bash edition of the tool and another that has 2006.1 just freshly installed). However, I was wondering if you'd be willing to accept patches for some of the smallish features for 0.9.7.1?? This way, you wouldn't need to spend your time maintaining the old version so much (I'd expect you'd want to double check any submitted patches) and can work on rewriting the new version.

What I was thinking is that I could look into the code for the above-mentioned feature, the symlink feature and the auto-cleaning of glcuUpdate files. Drop me a private message if you'd be willing, and I can provide you my SF.net details (assuming you use the repository there)...

Otherwise, what I may do is post the patches here for those who are adventurous and want to patch there own copy of GLCU. I haven't fully decide on this one yet.

Also it might be worthwhile to either:

a) Create a layman compatible repostory (this can probably be done with the sourceforge repos).
b) get the GLCU ebuild added to the sunrise or another community maintained repository (at least until you are able to get GLCU into the main portage tree). This way it would be easier for everybody else out there to utilize this invaluable piece of software without having to muck with creating and maintaining their own overlays (so glad I found layman now).

psychomunky · Guru Joined: 02 Nov 2004 Posts: 337 Location: Canada

untiefe, are you still goign to maintain this at some point??

Not complaining, just curious if I should start trying to fix some issues myself...I understand how that work and personal life crap gets in the way

Anyways, if you are still reading this thread...I got a wierd error this past time I tried to update. First here is the e-mail I got for my box:

untiefe · Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 9:15 pm Post subject:

Hi psychomunky,

sorry, that it took me so long to answer, but I wasn't informed on any new mails in this thread (it was too long ago, the last time I wrote something).

I didn't do anything on the glcu project for nearly a year now :-(

...
But I'm hope to restart again - even though the 0.9.7.1 version still works well (I think your JDK error is related to the java update - I didn't get anything like it).

If you have any useful patches for the 0.9.7.1 code I'm happy to integrate it, to keep glcu a little bit up to date. I think it will take a lot more time, if I have a running version of the new code available :-(

I'm just doing to much rubyonrails lately ;-)

I'm very grateful for any suggestions or patches!!! Please send them to glcu (removethispamtag) [at] (reallyremovethispamtag) 42nd . de I got so much spam on the old adress - I had to deactivate it...

Thank you for using glcu!

Bye, Michael <-- who is a little drunk from 'Glühwein' at the moment ;-)

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

linolium · Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 5:12 am Post subject:

I have installed GLCU on my system, and am so far very happy with the efficient updating system.

However, I do not think it is working properly! The email I receive has the following in it:

untiefe · Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 7:44 am Post subject:

Hi linolium,

please read the complete eMail glcu has sent you, because it doesn't update your system automatically it just prebuilts the needed packages, so that the installation is really quick!!!

In the eMail glcu has sent you, you'll find above the listing of the packages a sentence like: