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This article is a summary of all the changes made on Automated Gentoo System Updater project during week 9 of GSoC. Project is hosted on GitHub, blog post can be also found on Gentoo Blogs Progress on Week 9 This week, much of my time was devoted to improving Dart and Flutter skills, preparing to develop the mobile app and researching app architecture. I have made some gentoo_update code improvements as well: Parse update log into dataclass instead of a dictionary. Remove y/n option for CLI flags, now if the flag is present it automatically means y Read multiple mount point disk usage stats, instead of just / Simplify package info parsing by replacing complex regular expressions with string splitting Challenges It was very challenging to create a suitable app architecture, and this task is still not 100% complete. ...

This article is a summary of all the changes made on Automated Gentoo System Updater project during week 8 of GSoC. Project is hosted on GitHub, blog post can be also found on Gentoo Blogs. Progress on Week 8 Currently, the updater supports two methods of notifications: IRC bot and email. The IRC bot was built using Python’s sockets library with SSL support. Although functional, it remains quite basic and encounters issues with sending out the report properly in approximately 20% of cases. The issue seems to occur during connection to irc.libera.chat servers, though the exact problem remains unclear. ...

This article is a summary of all the changes made on Automated Gentoo System Updater project during weeks 6 and 7 of GSoC. Project is hosted on GitHub, blog post can be also found on Gentoo Blogs. Progress on Weeks 6 + 7 These 2 weeks were spent on the parser and the reporter. During this time, I’ve added many features to it, but there are still much more things left to be done. Due to limited time of GSoC I will implement additional features after the program end. ...

This article is a summary of all the changes made on Automated Gentoo System Updater project during week 5 of GSoC. Project is hosted on GitHub, blog post can be also found on Gentoo Blogs. Progress on Week 5 Week started off by receiving some feedback from the community in the forums. Here are some nice ideas that community have suggested to implement: Fallback to the latest version of the package if an error is encountered during an update; Add an option to control Portage niceness; Estimate update time; Notify users about obsolete USE flags; Think of a way to make updater work on binpkg servers. I will attempt to do 1-4 in the duration of Google Summer of Code. ...

This article is a summary of all the changes made on Automated Gentoo System Updater project during week 4 of GSoC. Project is hosted on Github, blog post can be also found on Gentoo Blogs. Progress on Week 4 Started the week by discovering that my updates to ebuild were not accepted in the GURU overlay. The issue arose due to a misuse of USE flags feature in the ebuild. Maintainers of GURU (big thanks to antecrescent!) pointed out my mistake and explained how to fix it, which I did by submitting 2 more commits ( commit1 and commit2). ...

Introduction gentoo_update (Github repo) is a tool that automatically updates Gentoo Linux. Motivation Gentoo Linux gives users maximum flexibility and control over the system. A great example of this is the OS upgrade process. Users have a large selection of different command utilities and a bunch of configuration options to choose from to tailor the upgrade process to their needs. Here is the list of some tools that are commonly used during an upgrade: ...

This article is a summary of all the changes made on Automated Gentoo System Updater project during week 3 of GSoC. Project is hosted on Github, blog post can be also found on Gentoo Blogs Progress on Week 3 gentoo_update finally received some Github stars! It also has received 2 issues (#7 and #8). In #7 someone suggested to remove update.sh from being installed in the PATH, and only expose gentoo-update as entry point.#8 was a question if the program will be resolving circular dependencies. I was more than happy to solve/answer both issues, and hope to see more in near future! ...

This article is a summary of all the changes made on Automated Gentoo System Updater project during week 2 of GSoC. Project is hosted on Github Progress on Week 2 This week was all about packaging and testing. The updater is still in its infancy, but it’s much better to package everything nicely right away and not think about this in the future. I kicked things off by bundling all the code into one directory and set it up as a Python module. Then, with some automation magic I whipped up a Github Actions workflow that takes care of publishing the package to PyPI. The idea was to make it installable using pip. ...

This article is a summary of all the changes made on Automated Gentoo System Updater project during week 1 of GSoC. Project is hosted on Github Progress on Week 1 The most basic version of the updater program is ready. By default it only installs security patches from GLSA using glsa-check, but it also allows users to update @world with their custom update flags. Additionally, after an update users can choose to: ...

In this article I want to share my experience in applying to Google Summer of Code 2023 (GSoC). I was lucky enough to get accepted and I hope that this article will help someone in their future applications. Disclaimer: This article is not a guide on how to get accepted, it’s just my journey and my thoughts on the process. The outcome depends on your skills, organization, the project idea, Google and most importantly - luck. ...