Update 0.1.4.0_rc6 [a year on]

iMike · Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 2:24 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the effort! I've been using update almost since the beginning. Still works great!

Jennel · n00b Joined: 28 Mar 2011 Posts: 1

steveL · Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 9:40 am Post subject:

iMike · Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 7:16 pm Post subject:

Once again, thank you for the good work! Looks like your current update solves the recent problems like

steveL · Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2011 11:50 pm Post subject:

steveL · Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2011 8:06 pm Post subject:

Just to let you know we have a new homepage, thanks to Griz64:
http://weaver.gentooexperimental.org/update.html
..from where you can get ebuilds for both the latest tar.bz2 release and a live update-9999.ebuild using git.

I've added an eixSyncFlags config variable (to git) as unstable eix doesn't like -m any more; use eixSyncFlags='-MN' or eixSyncFlags='-M0 -N' in /etc/update if you're on unstable eix.

One of those will become the default when current (0.22.5) eix is no longer around. I'm not sure what -M0 vs -M does, as I'm still on stable; the error message from the new versions says to use -M0 instead of -m. We'll leave that config variable as an option, since things might change in the future, and you might want to change how eix-sync is run.

BTW don't add -q (unless you really want to;) as that's normally added when -q or -x is used to update.

Another thing to note is that (in git) we now install to /usr; the script has been changed to allow its install anywhere and it looks for the lib file (libIgli;) in /usr/lib or current directory (or you can export libIgli='/some/path' before running.) So, I recommend:
rm /sbin/update /lib/libIgli
after you've installed from either the ebuild or make install in the git checkout, if you have an existing version.

schwarzygesetzlos · n00b Joined: 11 Dec 2004 Posts: 69 Location: Funeralopolis

A great tool! Really works fine!

steveL · Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2011 1:03 am Post subject:

Thanks schwarzygesetzlos :-)

Just to let you know I've pushed a couple of bugfixes to git (emerge default option processing had an extra $ on line 8253 and it was bailing on portage-9999 version.)

I've been offline for a couple of weeks, but I am getting back to sorting out the new portage autounmask and then --jobs support.

iMike · Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2011 7:45 am Post subject:

Just noticed your new page with a regular ebuild. Is there any chance you might consider putting this in an overlay (e.g., git.overlays.gentoo.org) so we could just pick it up by adding the overlay in layman instead of needing to put it in our own local overlay?

/iMike

Naib · Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2011 1:31 pm Post subject:

yes update is getting some long overdue loven
as to overlay, the 9999 ebuild is the prefered so an overlay isn't needed, but if specific releases occur (as well as other weaver projects) then yes an overlay is worth concidering

https://weaver.gentooexperimental.org/trac/update
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steveL · Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2011 8:22 am Post subject: New release

Just to let you know I've pushed a new release to help with the libpng-1.5 ABI upgrade, for those who haven't done it already. This also brings in quite a few bugfixes since last release in August, if you're not using the live ebuild.

Portage --jobs support is much better, tho it still needs a bit of tweaking as I haven't had a package fail on me yet while using it, so I'm not even sure what that looks like. It also needs to pick up on config updates, which I'll fix in next few days; I just wanted to get the ABI fix out to people who don't upgrade every day or two.

Meantime the libpng upgrade is handled pretty effectively imo. The only bit you'll need, after the whole shebang including world update (after ABI and its revdep) and main depclean/ revdep (ie: after update -s or update -r has run to completion), is to run the command from the forum post about it (slightly modded; all on one line):

steveL · Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2011 9:22 am Post subject:

Just to show you what the ABI output looks like (so you can see what stuff gets upgraded for libpng; note I am on a KDE box):

steveL · Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 4:12 pm Post subject:

Just to let you know I've pushed an update to the git repo which deals with new default --quiet-build=y setting in emerge. This only affects the output when you're not using --jobs or -j in default-opts, or you run update with -j1 (or --jobs=1 if you like that sorta thing;)

I've also improved the list editor, primarily so we can reselect packages skipped by the configuration. There are a couple of display tweaks; eg package description in USE editor as well as main list (check the status bar if you don't know what I'm on about.)

In addition useless C++ rebuilds are skipped along with the usual suspects (ie: if you have not set skipUseless=0 in /etc/update and don't pass --build-useless to update.) This is for the recent removal of nocxx flag in favour of cxx across the board. Don't worry: it's perfectly safe! It's tied to a very tight formula, of the only change being cxx%* addition at the same time as (-nocxx%) or -nocxx. The latter is for gcc which is keeping the flag during the transition precisely for people like us who don't want to rebuild it for no use.

I'd like to roll this into a release so please try it out if you're using the git ebuild and shout if something breaks. If you want anything fixed bug reports are better, especially if you want something unusual done for your own needs (file as 'enhancement') or you want to be able to chase it along. ;-)

iMike · Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 10:12 pm Post subject:

I get:

steveL · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 6:13 am Post subject:

Hi iMike,

Sorry I've been offline last couple of months. I don't have java on my system but I've looked at what subversion wants, and I'll play with it now. I'm going to use the opportunity to add a rough ebuild data thing to the dialog, so I can look at deps for virtual/java as I'd like to be able to quickly see what my options are without having to dig out the ebuild.

I pushed an update to git yesterday that deals with SLOT-blockers as I was getting hit on the KDE upgrade. (I was in the middle of other stuff, so it took a while to sort it out.)

There's also a small fix to deal with the new kernel-3 series. Effectively all 2.6 and 3.x kernels are the same for purposes of system upgrades, so linux-headers 2.6.39 is fine on kernel 3.1 and linux-headers 3.1 are fine on 3.2. (This doesn't affect versioning, so 3.1 headers will still not be allowed on a 2.6.39 kernel as usual, to avoid headers which provide symbols the kernel doesn't know about.)

With respect to the java thing, I have a feeling if you ran:

schwarzygesetzlos · n00b Joined: 11 Dec 2004 Posts: 69 Location: Funeralopolis

Just wanted to ask about any updates for update.

Last non-git ebuild is a year old.

steveL · Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 4:20 am Post subject:

Hi schwarzygesetzlos,

Yeah, sorry about that, I tend to just work on the git version. I have been feeling for a while I should put out a release, so thanks for prodding me (I couldn't believe it's been over a year though ;) Anyhow, here it is: update-20121210.ebuild

I haven't made any changes and been using that version quite happily for a couple of weeks, so it's a good time to release it. God only knows what bugs have been fixed in that time :-)

Also, I have some changes I've been wanting for ages, to sort out gcc-config on upgrade (there's an old code branch in the git repo that has a prior attempt at it, that I completely forgot about til I reviewed recently) which I haven't put in (they're sitting in a WIP branch locally) as I haven't had a gcc upgrade to test them with. I'll push them to git though, now that a release is out, as it's disabled by default atm, til I can be sure it does the right thing.

Bear in mind that you need to use repoman manifest nowadays to get the digest. I guess we really should think about doing an overlay, but I have nfc how to set up what iMike suggested, if I'm honest about it.

Anyway, HTH, and thanks again for prodding me. It's nice to know people are using it :-)

Regards,
steveL.

schwarzygesetzlos · n00b Joined: 11 Dec 2004 Posts: 69 Location: Funeralopolis