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I'm not sure I understand completely. With the default settings, there are two issues that I can see:
1) `slackpkg update` always acts like there are updates, even when there's nothing to update.
Specifically, on every run (with VERBOSE=3) I see something like this:
Code:
Files //var/lib/slackpkg/CHECKSUMS.md5.asc and /tmp/slackpkg.9Nstx0/CHECKSUMS.md5.asc differ
But why should they differ if nothing changed? On the user end, the outcome is that unlike with regular slackpkg, I never see this prompt anymore:
Code:
No changes in ChangeLog.txt between your last update and now.
Do you really want to download all other files (y/N)?
2) `slackpkg check-updates` pulls the whole ChangeLog
With the default slackpkg+ settings, `slackpkg check-updates` will download the entire ChangeLog from each repo to see if there are updates. That's pretty inefficient/slow, couldn't slackpkg+ just use the method of comparing cached vs upstream CHECKSUMS.md5.asc file on both 14.2 and -current? Or at a minimum, use that method if slackpkg-15 is detected?
I could not fix it becouse slackpkg+ 1.7.0d0 had to work both with slackware 14.2 and slackware 15, and the fix is an huge patch.
Now that slackpkg+ 1.7.1 no longer supports slackware 14.2, I can fix it.
Sounds like a good idea not to try and support 14.2/15.0 at the same time, too much work!
I tested the new code, seems to work nicely for the official Slackware packages when I did `slackpkg update`, but it didn't check any of my other repos (slackpkg+dev and alienbob), even though SLACKPKGPLUS=on.
Thanks for looking at it though, check it out whenever. And happy birthday !
It works for me. If it works for someother I will package it as 1.7.3 (not today since it's my birthday )
Happy birthday.
I use slackpkg+ with third-party repositories and tested the new release.
"slackpkg update" works as advertised (question appears if nothing changed) and "slackpkg check-updates" is much quicker.
I use slackpkg+ with third-party repositories and tested the new release.
"slackpkg update" works as advertised (question appears if nothing changed)
The dialogue box is back for me too, but does `slackpkg update` check all your REPOPLUS for updates before asking that? For me it's only checking the main Slackware repo (and not alienbob or slackpkgplus repos, which I have set in slackpkgplus.conf).
The dialogue box is back for me too, but does `slackpkg update` check all your REPOPLUS for updates before asking that? For me it's only checking the main Slackware repo (and not alienbob or slackpkgplus repos, which I have set in slackpkgplus.conf).
check-updates is super fast too, very nice!
This is what I am seeing. It's checking all repositories with meta data. (highlighted in red)
Code:
slackpkg update
Updating the package lists...
Downloading...
Signatures
'/home/slackware/slackware64-current/CHECKSUMS.md5.asc' -> '/tmp/slackpkg.JtzUyE/CHECKSUMS.md5.asc'
'/home/non-slack/slackbuilds/CHECKSUMS.md5.asc' -> '/tmp/slackpkg.JtzUyE/CHECKSUMS.md5-nonslack.asc'
2021-02-28 16:51:31 URL:http://slakfinder.org/slackpkg+dev/CHECKSUMS.md5.asc [455/455] -> "/tmp/slackpkg.JtzUyE/CHECKSUMS.md5-slackpkgplus.asc" [1]
'/home/non-slack/multilib/current/CHECKSUMS.md5.asc' -> '/tmp/slackpkg.JtzUyE/CHECKSUMS.md5-multilib.asc'
'/home/non-slack/alienbob_restricted/current/x86_64/CHECKSUMS.md5.asc' -> '/tmp/slackpkg.JtzUyE/CHECKSUMS.md5-restricted.asc'
'/home/non-slack/alienbob/current/x86_64/CHECKSUMS.md5.asc' -> '/tmp/slackpkg.JtzUyE/CHECKSUMS.md5-alienbob.asc'
No changes in ChangeLog.txt between your last update and now.
Do you really want to download all other files (y/N)? >
Last edited by chrisretusn; 02-28-2021 at 03:03 AM.
Now that it appears the error code from slackpkg is fixed, can we get that in slackpkg+?
This is what I get now.
Code:
slackpkg check-updates ; echo $?
Slackpkg: Updated packages are available since last check.
[ Repository ] [ Status ]
slackware AVAILABLE UPDATES
nonslack Up to date
slackpkgbeta Up to date
slackpkgplus Up to date
multilib Up to date
restricted Up to date
alienbob AVAILABLE UPDATES
0
Code:
SLACKPKGPLUS=off slackpkg check-updates ; echo $?
Slackpkg: Updated packages are available since last check.
1
Edit: Using a patched version of slackpkg-15.0.1_testC-noarch-1
patches here, here and here
Last edited by chrisretusn; 02-28-2021 at 03:38 AM.
The dialogue box is back for me too, but does `slackpkg update` check all your REPOPLUS for updates before asking that? For me it's only checking the main Slackware repo (and not alienbob or slackpkgplus repos, which I have set in slackpkgplus.conf).
Yes it does.
Code:
$ slackpkg update
Updating the package lists...
Downloading...
Signatures
File: slackware -> CHECKSUMS.md5.asc .. Cached.
File: slackpkgplus -> CHECKSUMS.md5.asc .. Cached.
File: alienbob -> CHECKSUMS.md5.asc .. Cached.
File: restricted -> CHECKSUMS.md5.asc .. Cached.
No changes in ChangeLog.txt between your last update and now.
Do you really want to download all other files (y/N)?
You can see that slackpkg+ cycles through the repositories I have defined in my slackpkgplus.conf.
Without CACHE option, it's the same:
Code:
$ slackpkg update
Updating the package lists...
Downloading...
Signatures
2021-02-28 10:24:24 URL:https://slackware.nl/slackware/slackware64-current/CHECKSUMS.md5.asc [163/163] -> "/tmp/slackpkg.8EGH4s/CHECKSUMS.md5.asc" [1]
2021-02-28 10:24:25 URL:http://slakfinder.org/slackpkg+15/CHECKSUMS.md5.asc [455/455] -> "/tmp/slackpkg.8EGH4s/CHECKSUMS.md5-slackpkgplus.asc" [1]
2021-02-28 10:24:25 URL:https://slackware.nl/people/alien/sbrepos/current/x86_64/CHECKSUMS.md5.asc [163/163] -> "/tmp/slackpkg.8EGH4s/CHECKSUMS.md5-alienbob.asc" [1]
2021-02-28 10:24:25 URL:https://slackware.nl/people/alien/restricted_sbrepos/current/x86_64/CHECKSUMS.md5.asc [163/163] -> "/tmp/slackpkg.8EGH4s/CHECKSUMS.md5-restricted.asc" [1]
No changes in ChangeLog.txt between your last update and now.
Do you really want to download all other files (y/N)?
I take it back, the problem was not with slackpkg+ but my configuration. Not sure exactly what, but I reset to a standard config and set things up again, and it works nicely:
Code:
# slackpkg update
Updating the package lists...
Downloading...
Signatures
2021-02-28 22:51:25 URL:http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/slackware/slackware64-current/CHECKSUMS.md5.asc [163/163] -> "/tmp/slackpkg.kNeB6X/CHECKSUMS.md5.asc" [1]
2021-02-28 22:51:26 URL:http://slakfinder.org/slackpkg+dev/CHECKSUMS.md5.asc [455/455] -> "/tmp/slackpkg.kNeB6X/CHECKSUMS.md5-slackpkgplus.asc" [1]
2021-02-28 22:51:27 URL:https://slackware.nl/people/alien/sbrepos/current/x86_64/CHECKSUMS.md5.asc [163/163] -> "/tmp/slackpkg.kNeB6X/CHECKSUMS.md5-alienbob.asc" [1]
No changes in ChangeLog.txt between your last update and now.
Do you really want to download all other files (y/N)?
I got rid of /etc/slackpkg/slackpkgplus.conf and started fresh, but looking again I probably didn't chmod +x the new slackpkgplus.sh in /usr/libexec/slackpkg/functions.d/ the first time around, since chmod -x on it produces the same behaviour I was seeing. In any case, there's no problem with slackpkg+.
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