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Title: pkgupdate, an OpenBSD script to update packages fast |
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Author: Solène |
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Date: 15 August 2021 |
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Tags: openbsd |
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Description: |
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# Introduction |
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pkgupdate is a simple shell script meant for OpenBSD users of the |
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stable branchs (people following releases) to easily keep their |
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packages up to date. |
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It is meant to be run daily by cron on servers on at boot time for |
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workstations (you can obviously configure it how you prefer). |
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pkgupdate git repository (web view) |
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# Why ? How ? |
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Basically, I've explained all of this in the project repository README |
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file. |
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I strongly think updating packages at boot time is important for |
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workstation users, so the process has to be done fast and efficiently, |
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without requiring user agreement (by setting this up, the sysadmin |
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agreed). |
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As for servers, it could be useful to by running this a few time a day |
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and using checkrestart program to notify the admin if some process is |
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required to restart after an update. |
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# Whole setup |
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Too long, didn't read? Here the code to make the thing up! |
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```shell code |
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$ su - |
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# git clone https://tildegit.org/solene/pkgupdate.git |
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# cp pkgupdate/pkgupdate /usr/local/bin/ |
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# crontab -e (which will open EDITOR, add the following lines) |
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### BEGIN this goes into crontab |
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# for updating on boot |
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@reboot /usr/local/bin/pkgupdate |
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### END of this goes into crontab |
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``` |
