mintUpdate 1.2 is out!

jbaerbock · Post by **jbaerbock** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 1:20 am

Yeah that doesn't work so well then lol.

Btw MerlWiz I look forward to your Daryana version

merlwiz79 · Post by **merlwiz79** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 1:20 am

Sagasha wrote:OK I got it started in KDE and it shows some 80 updates but when I click "Install" it doesn't do anything?

What I'm I doing wrong?

Thanks

I am in XFCE, but I have KDE CE installed with mintUpdate and it worked fine before.
Do you have Synaptic installed?

kanishka · Post by **kanishka** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 3:38 am

Same for me as jbaerbock... Synaptic lists 4 upgradable apps, while mintUpdate finds none even after refresh.

Post by **clem** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 4:47 am

mintUpdate only performs update, synaptic does dist-upgrade... so it can explain why synaptic sees more things than mintUpdate.

mintUpdate runs in user mode at boot.. and in root mode after you click it. In user mode it can't perform updates so it relies on other programs to update APT and stores its files in your home... in root more it's using /usr/lib/linuxmint

There are a few remaining issues, mostly with mintUpdate running in the background... I'll try to fix these as fast as I can.

Clem

Sagasha · Post by **Sagasha** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 9:31 am

merlwiz79 wrote

I am in XFCE, but I have KDE CE installed with mintUpdate and it worked fine before.
Do you have Synaptic installed?

Guess I missed that!!! Thanks I installed Synaptic and it works. I made a shortcut for it in K-Menu, thanks again.

merlwiz79 · Post by **merlwiz79** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 1:22 pm

clem wrote:mintUpdate only performs update, synaptic does dist-upgrade... so it can explain why synaptic sees more things than mintUpdate.

mintUpdate runs in user mode at boot.. and in root mode after you click it. In user mode it can't perform updates so it relies on other programs to update APT and stores its files in your home... in root more it's using /usr/lib/linuxmint

There are a few remaining issues, mostly with mintUpdate running in the background... I'll try to fix these as fast as I can.

Clem

When I look at the list in /home/USERNAME/.linuxmint/mintUpdate it has all the updates that was in Synaptic.
When I look in the /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintUpdate/tmp/ it has the update i didn't install the last time and no new updates.

Post by **clem** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 2:30 pm

merlwiz.. can you explain more, give me examples.. I don't really understand. Is wajig installed on that system? what does it give you when you type sudo wajig toupgrade?

Clem

merlwiz79 · Post by **merlwiz79** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 2:50 pm

clem wrote:merlwiz.. can you explain more, give me examples.. I don't really understand. Is wajig installed on that system? what does it give you when you type sudo wajig toupgrade?

Clem

Yes it's installed.
I have installed all the updates already.
But the file /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintUpdate/tmp/upgrades shows old updates that I can't install since the -dev hasn't came out for it.
But the file in /home/USERNAME/.linuxmint/mintUpdate/ had all the updates that Synaptic had.
So I moved it to /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintUpdate/tmp/ but it got overwritten with the old list again.
So I used Synaptic to install them.
I will have to login to Xubuntu Gutsy and take screenshots later today.(I am sure it has updates)

Post by **clem** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 4:33 pm

Ede: can you give me an example of package that appears in synaptic and not in mintUpdate? don't forget to tell me the repository needed to see that package update by the way.

Merlwiz: the home file should be outdated.. the /usr/lib should be newer.. the difference between the 2 is that the /usr/lib one is taken after apt-get update is called. Don't hesitate to send more info and an example of package and where it is in these files.

Guys, I've just fixed a lot of things so I'm getting ready to release 1.3... if what you're seeing is a bug 1.3 won't fix it but as there's a new logging scheme in it, it will help us understand the problem better.

Clem

merlwiz79 · Post by **merlwiz79** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 4:40 pm

clem wrote:Ede: can you give me an example of package that appears in synaptic and not in mintUpdate? don't forget to tell me the repository needed to see that package update by the way.

Merlwiz: the home file should be outdated.. the /usr/lib should be newer.. the difference between the 2 is that the /usr/lib one is taken after apt-get update is called. Don't hesitate to send more info and an example of package and where it is in these files.

Guys, I've just fixed a lot of things so I'm getting ready to release 1.3... if what you're seeing is a bug 1.3 won't fix it but as there's a new logging scheme in it, it will help us understand the problem better.

Clem

Ok here is the screenshot.
The empty upgrades is from the /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintUpdate/tmp/
The one with the new info is from /home/USERNAME/.linuxmint/mintUpdate/
Click image to enlarge:

Post by **clem** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 4:56 pm

You're looking at Gutsy there..

The only thing I can think of.. is that the new python libs in gutsy break something in mintUpdate which is only run in root mode... and that makes the refresh crash...

If you close synaptic and refresh manually in mintUpdate you get nothing at all?

... or ...

can you show me the output of "sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade" (don't do the upgrade.. just show the output and select "No").

and then the same but with sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get dist-upgrade..

Clem

Post by **clem** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 4:57 pm

by the way.. if it does actually break mintUpdate... version 1.3 should tell us about it in the logs.

Clem

merlwiz79 · Post by **merlwiz79** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 5:12 pm

clem wrote:You're looking at Gutsy there.. The only thing I can think of.. is that the new python libs in gutsy break something in mintUpdate which is only run in root mode... and that makes the refresh crash...

If you close synaptic and refresh manually in mintUpdate you get nothing at all?

... or ...

can you show me the output of "sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade" (don't do the upgrade.. just show the output and select "No").

and then the same but with sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get dist-upgrade..

Clem

It's Xubuntu Gutsy with everything I was adding to Celena XFCE CE, even the theme and wallpaper.
I opened mintUpdate click refresh then opened Synaptic to show the updates it had from yesterday.
It can't be Gutsy since I get the same thing in KDE CE.
Though that was my 1st though and didn't post about it.
Here is the info you wanted.
http://www.box.net/shared/nz0q5kd3vr

merlwiz79 · Post by **merlwiz79** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 8:09 pm

I think this started when in Xubuntu I forced Firefox not to update to firefox mint.
In KDE CE I used forced version of libhal1 and libhal-storage1 so I can install the -dev of them.
I haven't done anything like that in Cassandra(Main) and mintUpdate 1.3 works fine.

hairy_Palms · Post by **hairy_Palms** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 5:15 am

just thought id point out the link in the first post is broken, but if you just go to the daryana you can get 1.4 thru http

hairy_Palms · Post by **hairy_Palms** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 10:21 am

ive been hacking around the interface today, to try and make it look neater, heres what ive come up with

heres the updated glade file and mintUpdate.py

http://rapidshare.com/files/62499787/mi ... r.bz2.html

the python changes are pretty minimal it can be summed up as

Code: Select all

def force_refresh(widget, treeview, statusIcon, wTree):
	#start of edits
	# this is just to ensure the Select/unselect button works after the refresh which autoselects all
	global toggle
	toggle = 1
	wTree.get_widget("selection_label").set_text(_("Unselect All"))
	#end of edits
	refresh = RefreshThread(treeview, statusIcon, wTree)
	refresh.start()
	
	

#Start of Edits

#Ive Redefined clear to encompass select_all and the old clear with an if statement
def clear(widget, treeView):
	global toggle
	if (toggle == 1):
		#def clear(widget, treeView):
		model = treeView.get_model()
		iter = model.get_iter_first()
		while (iter != None):
			model.set_value(iter, 0, "false")
			iter = model.iter_next(iter)
		wTree.get_widget("selection_label").set_text(_("Select All"))
		toggle = 0
	else:
		#def select_all(widget, treeView):
		model = treeView.get_model()
		iter = model.get_iter_first()
		while (iter != None):
			model.set_value(iter, 0, "true")
			iter = model.iter_next(iter)
		wTree.get_widget("selection_label").set_text(_("Unselect All"))
		toggle = 1
#End of edits

the code is only there because i thought having a clear and select all button looked cluttered. tell me what you think clem

Post by **clem** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 6:57 am

Hi Hairy Palms,

I like what you've done with the GUI but I like the one we already have a little bit better. The Clear button is one of my favorites, the first button I click on actually... cause I usually clear, then select things I want, one by one.

Clem

hairy_Palms · Post by **hairy_Palms** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 12:41 pm

ah ok np

the unselect all button still has the same function as the clear button tho,
one thing i thought i might report, when you select the changelog tab, the program hangs for a 3-4 seconds, i wonder if there might be a way to resolve this by threading out the aptitude command.

klaeje · Post by **klaeje** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 7:17 am

the link to upgrade doesn't work!

is there another way to do this?

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