Upcoming changes to download sites:bye, bye Debian and yum repos

[mherger]

Don't panic! But there are a few changes coming. We're about to change
our CDN provider. This was an opportunity to review the various hosts
and download sites we have.

downloads.slimdevices.com should be available as before. We'll probably
have to tweak the caching behaviour for the nightlies. So please let me
know should you see outdate or otherwise confusing results when trying
to get the latest nightly builds.

update.slimdevices.com has always been really static (ip3k firmware).
This should not change from existing behaviour.

debian.slimdevices.com - while I had tried to keep this working, I've
seen a lot of complaints about incorrect checksums and/or file sizes
etc. It must have been broken for years. Therefore I think it's time to
say goodbye to this old friend. It's easy enough to install a .deb file.

repos.slimdevices.com (yum): I didn't even know we had a yum
repository... And it has not been updated in years. It's a good
opportunity to say goodbye for good. Nobody will miss it.

These changes should be mostly transparent to you. If not, then please
let me know. And no, this is not a sign of the inevitable. It's only an
attempt to consolidate our networking infrastructure. And yes, save a
few bucks here and there, of course.

--

Michael

[michi]

I think not many used the debian repo anyway since 7.9 wasn't in there..
By the way is there any script to get the newest nightly from the server? Or do i always have to look what the latest filename is to download it?

[mherger]

> I think not many used the debian repo anyway since 7.9 wasn't in there..

....and the others didn't work reliably.

> By the way is there any script to get the newest nightly from the
> server? Or do i always have to look what the latest filename is to
> download it?

http://downloads.slimdevices.com/nightly/?ver=7.9 - should be easy
enough to write a shell script to parse that output for your needs.

--

Michael

[mherger]

> By the way is there any script to get the newest nightly from the
> server? Or do i always have to look what the latest filename is to
> download it?

Oh, I totally forgot the url LMS itself is using to check whether it's
got an update:

http://www.mysqueezebox.com/update/?...eturl=1&os=deb

version: obviously the LMS version you're using

revision: its revision. If you set it to 1, then you'll always get the
url for the latest build, no matter whether you've got it installed
already or not.

os: the flavour of installer you want
(deb/rpm/win/whs/osx/readynas/readynaspro/readynasarm/src/nocpan). The
latter two would give you the url for the tarball with and without the
CPAN binaries.

geturl: must be set to 1, or you'd get 1 or 0 at best, depending on
whether there was an update or not available.

--

Michael

[pgf]

what stands in the way of getting the server into the debian repos as an "official" package? i would much rather have LMS simply be updated along with the rest of my OS. it might not be the latest, but my needs from LMS are reasonably simple. (i'm still running 7.8)

paul

[DJanGo]

> By the way is there any script to get the newest nightly from the
> server? Or do i always have to look what the latest filename is to
> download it?

http://downloads.slimdevices.com/nightly/?ver=7.9 - should be easy
enough to write a shell script to parse that output for your needs.

--

Michael

That my Idea how to change eg. init.d/logitechmediaserver:
(but adding this feature in a file thats also updated Michael had to support that idea)
adding @row 107

d_update() {
        latest_lms=$(wget -q -O - "http://www.mysqueezebox.com/update/?version=7.9.0&revision=1&geturl=1&
        lms_deb=$(echo $latest_lms|cut -d "/" -f8)
        lms_new_Version=$(echo $lms_deb |cut -d "_" -f2)
        installed_lms=$(dpkg-query -W -f '${status} ${package} ${version}\n'|grep logitech |cut -d " " -f
        if [ ! $lms_new_Version = $installed_lms ]
                then
                echo 'Update Logitechmediaserver $installed_lms to $lms_newVersion'
                mkdir -p /sources
                cd /sources
                wget $latest_lms
                dpkg -i /sources/$lms_deb
        else
                echo "you already installed the latest Version $lms_new_Version"
        fi
}

and adding /changing the case to this

  update)
        d_stop
        d_update
        d_start 
        ;;      
  *)
        # echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload}" >&2
        echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|restart|force-reload|update}" >&2
        exit 1
        ;;

[DJanGo]

That my Idea how to change eg. init.d/logitechmediaserver:
(but adding this feature in a file thats also updated Michael had to support that idea)

Hmm after i run my own script the init.d/logitechmediaserver is still "my" Version
But i have to improve that (eg dont update if old and new are the same)

What did you think Michael ?

[lrossouw]

Just removed the debian repo form my sources.list.
Did have lots of error over the last couple of months though.
Going to miss the convenience though.

[michi]

That my Idea how to change eg. init.d/logitechmediaserver:
(but adding this feature in a file thats also updated Michael had to support that idea)
adding @row 107

d_update() {
        latest_lms=$(wget -q -O - "http://www.mysqueezebox.com/update/?version=7.9.0&revision=1&geturl=1&
        lms_deb=$(echo $latest_lms|cut -d "/" -f8)
        lms_new_Version=$(echo $lms_deb |cut -d "_" -f2)
        installed_lms=$(dpkg-query -W -f '${status} ${package} ${version}\n'|grep logitech |cut -d " " -f
        if [ ! $lms_new_Version = $installed_lms ]
                then
                echo 'Update Logitechmediaserver $installed_lms to $lms_newVersion'
                mkdir -p /sources
                cd /sources
                wget $latest_lms
                dpkg -i /sources/$lms_deb
        else
                echo "you already installed the latest Version $lms_new_Version"
        fi
}

and adding /changing the case to this

  update)
        d_stop
        d_update
        d_start 
        ;;      
  *)
        # echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload}" >&2
        echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|restart|force-reload|update}" >&2
        exit 1
        ;;

+1 on that

> By the way is there any script to get the newest nightly from the
> server? Or do i always have to look what the latest filename is to
> download it?

Oh, I totally forgot the url LMS itself is using to check whether it's
got an update:

http://www.mysqueezebox.com/update/?...eturl=1&os=deb

version: obviously the LMS version you're using

revision: its revision. If you set it to 1, then you'll always get the
url for the latest build, no matter whether you've got it installed
already or not.

os: the flavour of installer you want
(deb/rpm/win/whs/osx/readynas/readynaspro/readynasarm/src/nocpan). The
latter two would give you the url for the tarball with and without the
CPAN binaries.

geturl: must be set to 1, or you'd get 1 or 0 at best, depending on
whether there was an update or not available.

--

Michael

Hehe to late now i already made a script with the download page (:

[mherger]

On Windows and OS X LMS would automatically check for updates and download the installers (optionally). Is this something we should enable on Debian and RedHat, too?