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#1 2009-09-08 18:04:55
- drf
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Chase - automatic updater for Arch and KDE4
Hello people,
I just realized I did not introduce Chase yet to the whole Arch community.
Chase is a small KDED Daemon, very lightweight, based on aqpm that is able to monitor your system for updates, download and install them. It is integrated with Shaman and won't conflict with it. Some more details and a visual tour here: http://chakra-project.org/bbs/viewtopic.php?id=1303
I saw somebody created a pkgbuild for it (which I did not test): http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29567
Hope you will enjoy this one!
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#2 2009-09-22 06:13:31
- l3thal
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Re: Chase - automatic updater for Arch and KDE4
Nice ! but i couldnt install it since libaqpm-git is failing to build
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#3 2009-09-22 10:35:45
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Re: Chase - automatic updater for Arch and KDE4
looks like automoc4 was missing , should be added to dependencies in the PKGBUILD !
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#4 2009-09-22 10:48:31
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Re: Chase - automatic updater for Arch and KDE4
Well, I think this is a nice idea as some kind of update notifier. But, are you sure you really want to provide automated install of new packages? Yes, you put a warning there, but nobody should ever want to enable this as this will break your system for sure sooner or later.
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#5 2009-09-24 10:32:42
- drf
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Re: Chase - automatic updater for Arch and KDE4
Well, I think this is a nice idea as some kind of update notifier. But, are you sure you really want to provide automated install of new packages? Yes, you put a warning there, but nobody should ever want to enable this as this will break your system for sure sooner or later.
Yup, it's automatic _only_ if the user really wants to. In any case, he would be prompted to put the password and he is always forced to read the installation log output (the notification won't go away until you open the dialog), which carries all the various scriptlet output and stuff. Also, if the updater finds a question from libalpm, a conflict or whatever it will instantly stop and redirect the user to use Shaman or Pacman.
So yeah, already thought about this 
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#6 2009-09-24 12:25:02
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Re: Chase - automatic updater for Arch and KDE4
Maybe you need to display a huge disclaimer before they can enable it 
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#7 2009-09-27 18:21:22
- drf
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Re: Chase - automatic updater for Arch and KDE4
Maybe you need to display a huge disclaimer before they can enable it
Already in, you don't see it from the screenshot. If you choose the evil option, it will show you a frightening messagebox telling you what you're risking.
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#8 2009-09-27 20:10:35
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#9 2009-09-29 05:57:07
- drf
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Re: Chase - automatic updater for Arch and KDE4
You might want to add an option to notify of updates but do not download them. Some people are limited what they can download (download caps) so these people might want to select what to download.
It's already implemented
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#10 2009-11-09 00:47:34
- TomB17
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Re: Chase - automatic updater for Arch and KDE4
Nice idea, although I don't think it's wise to automatically update a system with no warnings or acknowledgement from the user.
Just kidding. 
I will check it out. Thank you for the useful utility.
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#11 2009-11-09 00:52:44
- Tyriel
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Re: Chase - automatic updater for Arch and KDE4
I have been using this for a while now and I must say it is really good. You so need to be careful to read the log it displays before or after an installation so you know what was installed incase it breaks something on your system. For instance the recent trouble with xorg and KDE.
The software required Windows XP or better, so I installed archlinux.
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#12 2009-11-09 02:00:51
- sHyLoCk
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Re: Chase - automatic updater for Arch and KDE4
Automatic updates in Arch may cause trouble sometimes when you need to modify your config files. Will that be done automatically by this? Then it will mean more trouble. Anyway, the update notifier should be useful.
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