I'm glad to announce Fast OnlineUpdate for SuSE (fou4s) 0.12.0. Many months have passed since the last version came out, mostly because I'm going to school again, in addition to my daily job. Right now, just before school starts again, I've (hopefully) fixed the most annoying bugs and added some nice features. These are the official release notes. The bad news first: * If root starts fou4s in an untrusted directory, the "SuSE-release" script would be executed from that directory. This is fixed now (ownership-check). * Some updates were missed (scripts), and unfortunately I just discovered, that mysql updates from August were also missed on SuSE 9.0. Now the good news: * Fou4s will do a fully automatic backup of your old kernel. It will be named /boot/vmlinuz.fou4s. This backup is independent from the RPM package and must be deleted manually if it is not needed any more. You also have to add an appropriate lilo.conf/grub menu entry by hand, but fou4s will remind you to do so. Of course this feature can also be disabled in fou4s.conf (KernelBackup=0) * Remind to reboot after doing a kernel update (works even if you updated your kernel with YOU :) * Remote host functionality improved (export scripts and kernels) * A Nagios check script (by William Jacqmein) What else? * Fou4s is no longer on the AutoList in the default configuration. Previously, you had to install a cronjob manually and edit it to fit your needs. Now you can use the --cronserver or --cronworkstation commands and you probably won't look inside the cronjob files. Therefore I decided to remove the self-update feature. Existing installations won't be affected, though. * Support for user/password in urls (e.g. ftp://user:pass@mymirror/suse) * No longer run SuSEconfig with GID fou4s This release will probably be the last before 1.0 (ok, probably 0.12.1 will be released with some minor fixes that usually come out after a release). My TODO list is nearly empty :) Last words: If you sent me a mail during the last months and your bug(-fix) is not included with this release, please contact me again. I was very busy and probably just overlooked it. Thank you for your attention Markus Gaugusch -- __________________ /"\ Markus Gaugusch \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign markus(at)gaugusch.at X Against HTML Mail / \
* Markus Gaugusch wrote on Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 00:32 +0200:
Many months have passed since the last version came out, mostly because I'm going to school again, in addition to my daily job.
... and because fou4s was and is working that well that an update was not urgent.
Now the good news: * Fou4s will do a fully automatic backup of your old kernel. It will be named /boot/vmlinuz.fou4s.
This feature (and the initrd backup) saved me a lot of work after I did a mistake. Thank you :)
but fou4s will remind you to do so.
( mk_initrd also reminded me to run lilo but the server was down too quickly to issue a shutdown -c :-))
* Remind to reboot after doing a kernel update (works even if you updated your kernel with YOU :)
Today we had trouble again with YOU (yast was not starting anymore because of a lib dep problem after a partly update or whatever) - but a simple "fou4s -dev && fou4s -i" fixed it :-)
* Remote host functionality improved (export scripts and kernels) * A Nagios check script (by William Jacqmein)
Nice idea! We'll check that out. (just to share some expiriences about fou4s in general). Thank you. oki, Steffen -- Dieses Schreiben wurde maschinell erstellt, es trägt daher weder Unterschrift noch Siegel.
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Markus Gaugusch
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Steffen Dettmer