On 3/8/07, Jonas Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2007/3/7, Michael Homer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi, > > I've finished a pre-release new version of Freshen, that's had all the > > features updated so that they actually work as expected. As well as > > that, there are a couple of new features: > > - upgrade-system actually works now, and pretty much flawlessly. I've > > just used it to update mine. > Why does upgrade-system try to upgrade 320 apps, while Freshen only > lists 162 apps as "upgradeable"? They should be exactly the same list - the only difference between the two is that one outputs the entries and one calls InstallPackage/Compile on them. Are there duplicates in the list? There shouldn't be any difference between the two reported counts, either
Also compare with `Freshen | wc -l`. I have noticed that some packages get listed in the output without being flagged as [U]pgradable, which is cosmetic only. If they're in the list, they'll be upgraded. > > > > I'm posting this here rather than on -users because I'd like to have > > it go through a little bit of real-world testing, particularly the > > upgrade-system feature. I suggest limiting the number of programs it > > will update and making sure things are still as they should be after - > > the -l command-line option deals with this. > > > I can't make Freshen use binaries. If I use '-b -R' options I get an > empty list, even though I know there exists newer packages for apps > that I have installed. Run `ls -l /tmp/BinaryPackages(List|Data)`. They should both be non-empty. It also only checks the package repository set in Freshen.conf, so check that that's valid. Another thing that occurs to me is that it relies on parsing the directory listing HTML - I haven't tested it against all the repositories, only gobo.calica.com. That could well be the problem. See if changing the defined repository there makes it work; another symptom would be that BinaryPackagesData is full and BinaryPackagesList empty (one is just a parsed version of the other). If that is the problem I'll have to tidy up the parser, or make it cheat and always use gobo.calica.com/gobo/packages/official/ for the packages list. > I still haven't had the guts to try upgrade-system. :) Freshen -l 5 will show you the first five programs, that will be updated by Freshen -U -l 5. You can keep an eye on things and make sure they're going ok by using those. There shouldn't be any problem with it; the worst that can happen is a bunch of package installs fail. -Michael _______________________________________________ gobolinux-devel mailing list gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel
