Update Checker

[fishmanluvslinux]

I am waiting patiently. =]

[Coastie]

Nice! How about either days or hours check? Checking once a day is enough to me.

[Wirezfree]

Maybe I missed this.?, if Not
If it is running, does the actual tray icon change colour to reflect status.?
Like:
Green  = Running & No Updates
Yellow  = Running & Updates Available
Red     = Running, but problems like, No Internet, Repository Not responding

Blue     = Running, But Updates checks not enabled

[Jerry]

For all folks, always remain focused on our target audience, Windows users and new folk to linux, not existing linux users. We cannot assume in Linux Lite, we need to spell things out and make them easy to understand. Remember, grandma has to look at this app and understand what it does. It needs to stay simple and not 'over-optioned'.

[shaggytwodope]

Hi Shaggy,

Another possible option for preferences would be restricting the updates only to security updates.
If someone is out and about and just wants to make sure possible security holes are closed, there wouldn't be the need to download a huge libre office update - if it's not a security patch of course

This will take some consideration, security update is a relative term. Minor fixes for some things, may not always be marked as such. Notability with ppa packages. Which ALOT of users have installed. This feature will be considered for sure, but no promises. My personal intent atm is to provide a means of displaying amount of possible updates. But not all packages with security updates may be flagged as such with how debian/ubuntu/ppa's work in general.

That being said, any and all ideas are welcomed. I try not to influence things with my personal tastes within reason lol.

[LL-user]

Hi Shaggy,

Another possible option for preferences would be restricting the updates only to security updates.
If someone is out and about and just wants to make sure possible security holes are closed, there wouldn't be the need to download a huge libre office update - if it's not a security patch of course

[shaggytwodope]

Might head to bed soon, or at least lay down for tv lol. But here is another video for folks.

[Jerry]

Sounds good shaggy.

[shaggytwodope]

I'd going to work on this for sometime tonight, if anyone has any idea's it would be great time to mention it...

So far I'm going to try and build a gui tool for perfs in updater. This will include:

- update interval adjustments

- possibly toggling notifcations


- toggle autostart (removing from right click menu)

[torreydale]

misko_2083,

Hurry and post something else.  You're stuck on a bad luck number of posts.

[anon222]

@updater: An option to change the update interval, that would be the most usefull option. 

@Network connection testing: great idea
In lite control center, we used this method to check the connection to the internet:
Pinging Gooogle dns servers.

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ping -c 1 8.8.8.8 2>&1 | grep "connect: Network is unreachable" &>/dev/null
            if [ $? = 1 ]; then
                   echo Active
            else
                    echo Not connected
            fiBut if we use this method when google is down the script would not update. lol

[shaggytwodope]

Icon's are not finalized at all. This is up to Jerry or anyone that would like to create or find icon's to use. Some can be theme neutral, so it's a non issue if done right. Short of that a preferences menu may come along in time to permit changing the icon's. I never planned to provide "options" with this tool. But it seems it's only natural. (short of it is.. the current icon's are nothing more then placeholders)

As far as the update script, I've not worked on it at all, short of adding dist-upgrade to it recently. If you have any improvement ideas to that.. open a PR. I've not had time myself to go into detail with it. (Needs some linting fixes lol)  I think in addition to your fix, we may want to consider a network connection testing method before executing. Quite similar to what you've provided.

[anon222]

shaggytwodope, how about an option to switch between the dark and light tray icon from the right-click menu?

In /usr/scripts/updates-gui is a method that kills synaptic and gdebi-gtk if they are open.

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# Kill off any package managers that may be running
if [ "$(pidof synaptic)" ]; then
     sudo killall -9 synaptic
fi
if [ ! -z "$(pgrep gdebi-gtk)" ]; then
     killall -9 gdebi-gtk
fiIf there is an install process running that causes problems.
What if a loop runs untill the lock is released or the user clicks Cancel?
Something like:

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function checklock () {
# Checks for exclusive lock and wait until package managers are closed
while  fuser /var/lib/dpkg/lock 2>&1 >/dev/null  ; do
   echo "# Waiting for other software managers to finish..." $"\n"
   if [ "$(pidof synaptic)" ]; then
      echo "# Please close any open package managers..." $"\nsynaptic"
   fi
   echo 1
   sleep 1
   echo 30
   sleep 1
   echo 60
   sleep 1
   if [ ! -z "$(pgrep gdebi-gtk)" ]; then
      echo "# Please close any open package managers..." $"\ngdebi-gtk"
   fi
   echo 95
   sleep 1
done | (if ! zenity --progress --title="$APPNAME - close any open package managers" --percentage=20 --auto-close;then killall $(basename $0); exit; fi)

}
checklock

[shaggytwodope]

So, new video. Showing some updates + state change (checks for crap in cache after it sees any updates run etc). Video really shows it better then I can explain lol.

Also new cache updating method.. Jerry might be happy with that. (Note lack of sudo needed.)





It should all be ready to go for the most part soon, refinement with icon's and dialog's down the road.

[shaggytwodope]

now you are just teasing us....