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engelsman
Joined: 21 Aug 2005
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 Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 10:33 pm Post subject: how to find out of date modules? |
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If I lin moonbase I get a list of those modules that have been updated / renamed / removed compared to the moonbase currently on my system.
If I lunar nofix I get a list of modules which might have missing / incompatible files or configurations.
I've been poring over the man pages for lunar, lin, lvu etc but can't find what I want.
How do I get a list of the currently installed modules that are out of date compared to the moonbase? |
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ElAngelo
Joined: 10 Aug 2005
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| Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 9:28 am Post subject: |
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quoting from "man lunar"
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update
automatically updates all installed software packages. This
option is non-interactive and does not start up the menu-driven
interface. It is suitable for use in cron jobs.
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anywayz, you could say that the manpage is not completely correct 
lunar update is partly interactive. It will first give you a list of modules it want to update. then you can choose to ignore him and let him update all the modules selected or you can choose to interact (by deleting or even adding modules in that list) or just ^C to abort the whole update process.... |
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engelsman
Joined: 21 Aug 2005
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| Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 1:21 pm Post subject: new option: lunar status ? |
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Thanks for the information. I had seen the man page entry for lunar update but overlooked the fact that get the list of things to rebuild and then quit without doing anything. I've even used lunar update in the past, just once mind, and had forgotten it worked like this.
No, what I was after was a sort of non-interactive lunar status command that simply gave a report to stdout, much like lunar nofix, that would compare what you already had installed and tell you whether there were newer versions in the moonbase. By extension, it could also tell you whether the installed version was 'held' and whether there were old versions that could be 'pruned'. Maybe this info could be colour coded too.
For example:
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root@lunar# lunar status
Module Moonbase Installed Status
abc 1.2.3 1.2.3 OK
bcd 2.3.4 2.3.3 out of date
cde 3.4.5 2.4.7 on hold
def 4.5.6 4.5.6 OK
def 4.5.6 4.4.1 to prune
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No doubt there could be options to limit to specific modules, or sections of the moonbase, or to show only those modules that were out of date, or versions that needed to be pruned.
I suspect that this is probably quite difficult for some reason I haven't seen otherwise I'm sure someone would have thought of it already. |
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RedKennedy
Joined: 22 Aug 2005
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| Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 3:27 pm Post subject: |
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well...there's lvu installed.....so you could write some sort of means of using that to print the modules...
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engelsman
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| Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 5:56 pm Post subject: lvu: what about adding 'status' and 'expired' options |
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In the true spirit of open source software, I've combed through the lunar module maintenance scripts, and come up with the following script to show the status of the currently installed modules.
Warning: Do not run this as root, just in case there are any gotchas that I didn't spot!
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. /etc/lunar/config
FORMAT="%-19s %-19s %-19s %-9s %-9s\n"
printf "$FORMAT" "Module" "Installed" "Moonbase" "Status" "Remark"
for MODULE in $(list_installed) ; do
if [ $MODULE = "moonbase" ] ; then
continue
fi
IVERSION=$(installed_version $MODULE)
MVERSION=$(module_version $MODULE)
if $(module_is_expired $MODULE) ; then
STATUS="EXPIRED"
else
STATUS="current"
fi
if $(module_exiled $MODULE) ; then
REMARK="exiled"
elif $(module_held $MODULE) ; then
REMARK="held"
else
REMARK="-"
fi
printf "$FORMAT" "$MODULE" "$IVERSION" "$MVERSION" "$STATUS" "$REMARK"
done
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The code above really needs to be extended to allow passing a section or module name to limit the output rather than just list all of the currently installed modules. Adding the code to detect old versions of installed modules that could be pruned looked like it was going to be a lot more work and code than I wanted to post here.
It seems to me that it would be possible to extend lvu to add expired and status options. expired would work like the held and exiled options, and status would work like the installed and section options and the script above. |
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sofar
Joined: 11 Aug 2005
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| Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 6:16 am Post subject: LOL |
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new feature in theedge/lunar since about 2/3 weekd:
try it ;^) |
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