Hi All,
Anyone have a favorite way of displaying when YUM updates
are available on SL 6.1?
Under CentOS 5.7, Xfce 4.4.2, I used a panel applet called:
/usr/bin/python -tt /usr/bin/puplet
Now that I have install SL 6.1, "pup" and even "yumex" seem
to have disappeared.
-T
Frank over at the Fedora-Xfce group gave me a script which I
embellished on.
There is a plugin for Xfce called "Generic Monitor" that I
plugged the script in to. Works well.
Thank you all for the tips and advice!
-T
My email client clips sentences that are too long, so anyone
using this will have to joins lines where they got clipped,
Note the dependencies in the comments:
$cat genmon-yum.sh
#!/bin/bash
# Reference:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/xfce/2011-November/000841.html
# From "man yum"
# check-update
# Implemented so you could know if your machine had any updates
# that needed to be applied without running it interactively.
# Returns exit value of 100 if there are packages available for an
# update. Also returns a list of the packages to be updated in
# list format. Returns 0 if no packages are available for update.
# Returns 1 if an error occurred.
# Dependencies: Oxygen icons
# gpk-update-viewer (yum install gnome-packagekit)
updates=$( yum check-update -q )
status=$?
if [ $status = 100 ]
then
echo -e
"<img>/usr/share/icons/oxygen/22x22/emblems/emblem-important.png</img>"
echo -e "<tool>Updates Available</tool>"
echo -e "<click>gpk-update-viewer</click>"
elif [ $status = 1 ]
then
echo -e
"<img>/usr/share/icons/oxygen/22x22/status/script-error.png</img>"
echo -e "<tool>the script returned an error</tool>"
echo -e "<click>gpk-update-viewer</click>"
elif [ $status = 0 ]
then
echo -e
"<img>/usr/share/icons/oxygen/22x22/actions/dialog-ok.png</img>"
echo -e "<tool>all updates applied</tool>"
echo -e "<click>gpk-update-viewer</click>"
else
echo -e
"<img>/usr/share/icons/oxygen/22x22/actions/dialog-cancel.png</img>"
echo -e "<tool>status is unknown</tool>"
echo -e "<click>gpk-update-viewer</click>"
fi
