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jjk-jacky / kalu

Keep Arch Linux Up-to-date -- an upgrade notifier for Arch Linux
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Add tracking of system upgrade without kalu gui #34

Closed bosyi closed 8 years ago

bosyi commented 8 years ago

Add tracking of pacman.log? to see if system were updated without kalu gui.

jjk-jacky commented 8 years ago

Not sure what you're looking for, but there's no need to track anything -- Just re-run the checks and you'll get an up-to-date situation, you always do, regardless of what frontend was used to update the system.

bosyi commented 8 years ago

-- Just re-run the checks Can it be done automatically?

Case: Kalu notifies me about new updates. Kalu icon becomes blue. I run in terminal 'pacman -Syu' -> system updated. Kalu icon still blue, but system just updated.

I wish kalu somehow track that. What do you think about that?

jjk-jacky commented 8 years ago

-- Just re-run the checks Can it be done automatically?

Not really. I mean there's no real way to track that.

A simpler solution would be for you to re-run the checks. If you use kalu to start a terminal emulator w/ pacman -Syu in it (instead of using kalu's updater that is) it's done automatically, or you could use a script/alias instead of running pacman manually, that would simply send "auto-checks" to kalu on its FIFO (see man page for more)

E.g: pacman -Syu; echo auto-checks > $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/kalufifo*