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Title: Contrib Updates
Post by: p-jones on February 12, 2015, 08:32:54 PM

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=== yum reports available updates for Contribs :
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Started getting these suddenly. Havent seen them before. Has something changed ?
I am not aware of any changes on thise side. I do have concerns that several contribs shown for update will break the system.

Thanks

Title: Re: Contrib Updates
Post by: guest22 on February 12, 2015, 08:57:55 PM

Quote from: p-jones on February 12, 2015, 08:32:54 PM

Started getting these suddenly. Havent seen them before. Has something changed ?

Yes. Please search bugzilla or the wiki dashboard page. They are both there for a reason. Things do change over time...

Title: Re: Contrib Updates
Post by: p-jones on February 12, 2015, 09:08:58 PM

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http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8791

Have read this already .......

Title: Re: Contrib Updates
Post by: guest22 on February 12, 2015, 09:21:15 PM

Then what is the issue?

Title: Re: Contrib Updates
Post by: p-jones on February 12, 2015, 10:06:47 PM

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I do have concerns that several contribs shown for update will break the system.

Here is a list reporte:
fping.i386                             3.5-1.el5.rf                  smecontribs
openvpn.i386                           2.3.1-3.el5                   smecontribs
smeserver-fetchmail.noarch             1.4-4.el5.sme                 smecontribs
smeserver-mailstats.noarch             1.0-4.el5.sme                 smecontribs
smeserver-userpanel.noarch             0.9-18.el5.sme                smecontribs
Obsoleting Packages
smeserver-ddclient.noarch              1.0.0-30.el5.sme              smecontribs
    sme7-ddclient.noarch               3.7.3-7                       installed 

Openvpn was removed via the installer 'cause it wouldnt work and replaced by an ovpn contrib that is not in the repos. I think this will break it.

sme-server ddclient is working just fine but this suggests it is obsolete and the hint is it will remove/disable it.

The bugzilla thread contains all the technical info but no descriptions or info for the non-code cutting admin.
Even though it is an old feature that didnt work, it now presents as an undocumented new feature !!

I guess the safest option is to turn addon updates off so those messages go away and the status quo is restored.

Thanks

Title: Re: Contrib Updates
Post by: guest22 on February 12, 2015, 10:10:56 PM

Again, what is the issue, other then you get information?

Title: Re: Contrib Updates
Post by: p-jones on February 12, 2015, 10:32:11 PM

RequestedDeletion - first post, last sentence. previous post, first sentence.

Anyone else a bit surprised or unsure by this or am I just dumb ?

Title: Re: Contrib Updates
Post by: Daniel B. on February 12, 2015, 10:55:42 PM

This is a new feature added recently. Until a few weeks ago, contribs updates weren't notified, so admins had to manually check if updates were available using:

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yum --enablerepo=smecontribs update

Of course, there's always a risk an update breaks something, just as it can fix problems (including security problems). It's then up to you to take the risk or not ;-)

If you don't want to receive those notices anmore, you can:

- apply the updates (and open a bug if something is broken after that)
- disable updates notifications with

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db configuration setprop yum status disabled
expand-template /etc/crontab
- Only disable contribs update notifications, but still receive core updates by creating a custom template:

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mkdir -p /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/crontab
echo '# smecontribs updates disabled' > /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/crontab/check4contribsupdates
expand-template /etc/crontab


Title: Re: Contrib Updates
Post by: stephdl on February 12, 2015, 11:37:21 PM

The full available commands  http://wiki.contribs.org/DB_Variables_Configuration#yum
You can set a monthly email just by a db command if you want

Obviously we saw that like a feature and not an issue :/

I have done a contrib in the same way to retrieve updates of chosen repositories : http://wiki.contribs.org/Check4updates

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