update-requests are missed by sce-update -a

[netnomad]

hi friends,

i regulary check for updates with sce-update -a.
for the last days i received no update-requests.
by using sce-purge i noticed that my libreoffice-packages are outdated.
so with sce-import i downloaded the missed updated packages.

i noticed this misbehavior for a couple of times and informed the forum about it.
do you have an idea about the reasons for this misbehavior?

thank you for your help and commitment to this project.

[Jason W]

Are you using sce-debpurge?

Which dCore are you using?

[netnomad]

Are you using sce-debpurge?

yes, you are right :-)

Which dCore are you using?

the most current:
tc@box:~/mnt/sdb1/live/dcore-current/boot$ md5sum dCore-jessie.gz
d1bbd6cdf02eb372866a02d8b902fed5  dCore-jessie.gz

[Jason W]

I don't see anything in the code that would be doing this.

If you can provide a list of debs that are determined out of date by sce-debpurge but were not by sce-update would be most helpful.

[netnomad]

hi jason,

that happens so seldom, so it's hard to determine.

this time it happened with libreoffice:
libreoffice-gnome
libreoffice-style-tango
and it's dependencies...

thank you for your help and interest.

[Jason W]

Of course, there is the possibility that in the time between running sce-update and sce-debpurge the DEBINX files on the server were updated, which could cause what you are seeing.  It is not likely, but possible.

I will run sce-update and then sce-debpurge myself for a bit and see if I can see the same.

[Jason W]

The issue seemed to be a typo in sce-debpurge.  Uploading new cut to release_candidates.

Thank you for the report and for helping to improve dCore.

[netnomad]

hi jason,

with your last cut i received so many major updates :-)
i keep on testing, but i think that you succeeded.

thank you for your help.

[netnomad]

hi jason,

now there seem to be update-loops:

100-desktop-jessie, 200-multimedia-jessie, libreoffice and virtualbox are requested for updates again and again :-(

tc@box:~/mnt/TCE/sce$ cat 100-desktop-jessie
xorg-all
Xprogs
wbar
fluxbox
iceweasel
icedove
evince
jpilot
xvnc4viewer

tc@box:~/mnt/TCE/sce$ cat 200-multimedia-jessie
alsa-base
alsa-utils
alsamixergui
cdparanoia
vlc
faad
lame
cups
cups-driver-gutenprint
hplip
avahi-daemon
gimp
xsane
pulseaudio
pavucontrol
volumeicon-alsa
gnucash
gthumb
gnome-calculator
doublecmd-gtk
xautolock
youtube-dl
minitube

tc@box:~/mnt/TCE/sce$ cat libreoffice
libreoffice-gnome
libreoffice-style-tango

tc@box:~/mnt/TCE/sce$ cat virtualbox
virtualbox-4.3.30-host-modules-3.16.6-tinycore
virtualbox-qt

thank you for your patience.

[Jason W]

Oops, I see what I did wrong.  Uploaded new cut to release candidates.

[netnomad]

hi jason,

also this new cut still tries to update in infinite loops:

tc@box:~$ sce-update -a

100-desktop-jessie
200-multimedia-jessie
libreoffice
virtualbox
The above SCEs are about to be updated.  Press Enter to proceed, y to view package updates, or Ctrl-C to abort..

tc@box:~$ md5sum /mnt/sdb1/live/dcore-current/boot/dCore-jessie.gz
05b0c989258926a24d0413857cc75ff5  /mnt/sdb1/live/dcore-current/boot/dCore-jessie.gz

[jls]

I can confirm this.
I did sce-update xorg-all and the system updated gstreamer1 & xorg-all.
Then I rebooted and I got the same update.
xorg-all dep: gstreamer1
gstreamer1 dep: base

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[Jason W]

I see on my install what is happening, SCEs with a .dep file are having the contents of dependent SCEs checked against the main SCEs md5sum file and since those entries are not there, they are failing md5sum check and being listed as needing updating.   I am getting closer to a fix, hopefully sometime today.

[Jason W]

Found a test that produced false update info.  Hopefully fixed now or at least back to where we were.  New release candidates, please test.

[jls]

Hi :
I tried again sce-update xorg-all
and I got
No updates available for chosen SCEs at this time.
Thanks