syuppod: autosync and auto pretend world daemon

[Jjeje007]

Hello,

I'm developping on my own a python daemon which auto sync and auto pretend world update.
I name this project syuppod (SYnc UPdate POrtage Daemon) and it has also a module to auto pull kernel git repositories (only test with zen-kernel)
This post is just to know if some one else could be interest for this kind of program.

I've started writing this because i forgot time to time to sync and to update my system. So after 1 or 2 months it starting to be *more* difficult to update
world (i'm on ~amd64). For now, i have syuppod running in a back ground and conky which get information through syuppod's dbus client. Conky will display how long i haven't update my system and how many package(s) to update.
So, for now, syuppod has theses features/specifications:

- written in python3 (i think 3.5 is recommended - using 3.6.9)
- auto sync - interval can be tweak : 1 day is minimum
- auto sync will detect manual sync and adapt is interval (1d mini)
- auto pretend is schedule after auto sync but it can auto shutdown and auto restart in case it detect world update running (emerge .* @world)
- auto detect world update (so auto pretend is run after to re guess how many package(s) to update)
- auto detect an update to portage (so you cannot miss message like : '* An update to portage is available. It is _highly_ recommended...')
- dbus service (expose method to system bus)
- dbus client to retrieve informations
- auto git pull (interval can be also tweak)
- auto detect new branch and new kernel version (only tested with zen-kernel git --> https://github.com/zen-kernel/zen-kernel THX !! )
- can be run as a daemon (using /etc/init.d) or in a terminal
- when run in a daemon logs goes to syslog, when run in a terminal all logs goes to terminal
- each process has it own log (sync -> /var/log/syuppod/sync.log, pretend -> /var/log/syuppod/pretend.log) and it auto rotate
- for technical part: using asyncio and thread to make method call non blocking (that why python 3.5 mini is needed)
- dbus client is translate using gettext : in french and in english (I apologize for my english)

I think i could miss some features
Any way, this is a work in progress and it's my hobby (and also my first phyton program ever )

Here is some screenshot from my desktop:

https://pic.infini.fr/flAa7tku/HH5NwzaO.jpeg
https://pic.infini.fr/1Javlskq/BiNruwc1.jpeg
https://pic.infini.fr/x53NYAry/py97lVzQ.jpeg

I hope this could interest some one

[Jjeje007]

Hello,

I'm still developping my project.
I just open a public repo on github if someone want to test:

https://github.com/Jjeje007/syuppod

At the time of the writing, you should try branch 'testing'.
I just push to this new repo, so i haven't yet write readme or install text.

To make it work:
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[Jjeje007]

Hello,

I made a README so all you need to know is there:

https://github.com/Jjeje007/syuppod

Thx,

Jjeje007

[Jjeje007]

Hello,

Some news from my project.
So i split the project onto two projects: one dedicated to git kernel (https://github.com/Jjeje007/gikeud)
and an other dedicated to portage (https://github.com/Jjeje007/syuppod).

For syuppod there is a lot of changes, the main:

- now run as a dedicated system user and no more root user (sync process is using sudo).
- now using inotify to watch emerge.log file (before it was a timer) and only proceed if file is close_write.
- i made ebuilds for out of tree dependency: pydbus and inotify_simple (overlay: https://github.com/Jjeje007/Jjeje007-overlay)
- client have a trivial autocomplete arguments.

And a lot more... and more to come :p

Here is the syuppo-cli output retrieving informations from syuppod over dbus:

[Jjeje007]

Hello,

Some news from my project. I have finally made an ebuild for syuppod which install all the needed dependencies and files.

You can grab it from my overlay -> https://github.com/Jjeje007/Jjeje007-overlay

See you,

Jjeje007