tibux/sun

SUN - Slackware Update Notifier

Table of Contents:

• About
• How works
• Installing
• Usage
• CLI
• Configuration files
• Screenshots
• Donate
• Copyright

About

SUN (Slackware Update Notifier) is a tray notification applet for informing about package updates in Slackware and CLI tool for monitoring upgraded packages.

How works

Actually read the two dates of ChangeLog.txt files one the server and a local by counting how many packages have been upgraded, rebuilt or added.

Installing

$ tar xvf sun-<version>.tar.gz
$ cd sun-<version>
$ ./install.sh

or

$ pip install sun --upgrade

Usage

Add sun in your windows manager session startup.

As for xfce:
Settings Manager --> Session and Startup --> Application Autostart --> +Add

Name: sun
Description: Slackware Update Notifier
Command: /usr/bin/sun start --gtk
[Ok]

CLI

$ sun help
SUN (Slackware Update Notifier) - Version: 1.1.0

Usage: sun [OPTION]

Optional arguments:
  help     display this help and exit
  start    start sun daemon
  stop     stop sun daemon
  restart  restart sun daemon
  check    check for software updates
  status   sun daemon status
  info     os information

$ sun start
Starting SUN daemon:  /usr/bin/sun_daemon

$ sun stop
Stoping SUN daemon:  /usr/bin/sun_daemon

$ sun status
SUN is not running

$ sun check
3 software updates are available

samba-4.1.17-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz:  Upgraded.
mozilla-firefox-31.5.0esr-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz:  Upgraded.
mozilla-thunderbird-31.5.0-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz:  Upgraded.

Configuration files

/etc/sun/sun.conf
    General configuration of sun

/etc/sun/mirrors
    List of Slackware ChangeLog.txt Mirrors

/etc/rc.d/rc.sun
    Runtime configuration file

Screenshots

Donate

If you feel satisfied with this project and want to thank me go to Slackware and make a donation or visit the store.

Copyright

• Copyright © Dimitris Zlatanidis
• Slackware® is a Registered Trademark of Patrick Volkerding.
• Linux is a Registered Trademark of Linus Torvalds.