Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 7351
Up2date batch requires X
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:53 EDT
I use Redhat for a few remote firewall and standalone servers where I do not bother to install X on the system. Also I am many times supporting these machines remotely over ssh regardless of X being installed or not. Up2date, even in batch mode, requires the existance of X. This makes it impossible to use on several of the systems I administer. Unfortunately the change to gpg signatures, while a GoodThing(tm), breaks freshrpms, the other such tool that came out a while back. This leaves me with -no- way to remotely upgrade packages on a Redhat 6.1 system.
I don't know if the following patch fixes *all* the dependencies on X, but it fixes at least one that I discovered while attempting to use up2date in batch mode last night -- it prevents up2date from trying to update the GUI progres bar when that progress bar doesn't exist. --- /usr/share/up2date/client.py Wed Nov 3 15:21:48 1999 +++ /tmp/up2date/client.py Thu Dec 16 06:30:26 1999 @@ -134,23 +134,22 @@ return cid def setProgress(self, amount, total): + if not self.gui: + return threads_enter() self.gui.progressBar.set_activity_mode(FALSE) threads_leave() - if not self.gui: - return - else: - if total != 0: - i = (amount + 1.0) / total - if i > 1: - i = 1.0 - elif i < 0: - i = 0 - else: + if total != 0: + i = (amount + 1.0) / total + if i > 1: + i = 1.0 + elif i < 0: i = 0 - threads_enter() - self.gui.progressBar.update(i) - threads_leave() + else: + i = 0 + threads_enter() + self.gui.progressBar.update(i) + threads_leave() def setActivity(self): threads_enter()
fixed for 6.2.