Dear Dale, >From next CCP4 release (due soon), ccp4um will be runnable from command line >in automatic, non-graphical mode, fully cronable. I hope that that will give >you what you want. "--check-silent" is a special option for ccp4i, it only >checks for new updates but do not install them.
Best regards, Eugene On 11 Apr 2013, at 18:10, Dale Tronrud wrote: > FYI > > I have a small herd of computers here and find it cumbersome to ssh > to each and fire up ccp4i just to update the systems. ccp4i takes a > while to draw all those boxes (particularly over ssh) and leaves files > behind in my disk areas on computers that I'm not likely to, personally, > run crystallographic computations. I much prefer to simply run ccp4um > from the command line. > > In fact, I would rather put it in cron and forget about it -- and > I expect that is what --check-silent is for. The usage statement, > however, doesn't explicitly say that this installs the new updates it > finds. I'll have to experiment a bit. > > Dale Tronrud > > On 04/11/2013 05:17 AM, eugene.krissi...@stfc.ac.uk wrote: >> Sorry that this was unclear. We assume that updater is used primarily from >> ccp4i, where nothing changed (and why it should be used from command line at >> all ?:)). The name was changed because it is reserved in Windows, which >> caused lots of troubles. Now it will stay as is. >> >> Eugene >> >> On 11 Apr 2013, at 05:16, James Stroud wrote: >> >> >> On Apr 10, 2013, at 9:30 PM, >> <eugene.krissi...@stfc.ac.uk<mailto:eugene.krissi...@stfc.ac.uk>> >> <eugene.krissi...@stfc.ac.uk<mailto:eugene.krissi...@stfc.ac.uk>> wrote: >> >> No, it got renamed to ccp4um :) That should have been written in update >> descriptions, was it not? >> >> >> There was only one mention of "ccp4um" that I could find in all update >> descriptions that I found (6.3.0-020). I only figured out what information >> was trying to be communicated because of your message (see attachment). >> >> James >> >> >> <um-what.png> >> >> >> >> On 11 Apr 2013, at 03:54, James Stroud wrote: >> >> Hello All, >> >> I downloaded a crispy new version of CCP4 and ran update until the update >> update script disappeared. Is the reason that CCP4 has reached its final >> update? >> >> James >> >> >> >> -- Scanned by iCritical.
