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Git Clone URL: | https://aur.archlinux.org/informant.git (read-only, click to copy) |
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Package Base: | informant |
Description: | An Arch Linux News reader and pacman hook |
Upstream URL: | https://github.com/bradford-smith94/informant |
Keywords: | news |
Licenses: | MIT |
Submitter: | bradford-smith94 |
Maintainer: | bradford-smith94 |
Last Packager: | bradford-smith94 |
Votes: | 64 |
Popularity: | 3.10 |
First Submitted: | 2018-02-27 18:54 (UTC) |
Last Updated: | 2021-10-23 17:37 (UTC) |
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bradford-smith94 commented on 2021-12-13 17:50 (UTC)
If you had informant installed prior to the Python 3.10 update, the installed package is built on Python 3.9 and will not work once pacman removes Python 3.9.
To fix this you just need to rebuild informant.
linuxkd commented on 2021-12-13 17:47 (UTC) (edited on 2021-12-13 18:11 (UTC) by linuxkd)
Informant seems to be broken with the installation of Python 3.10.
I was able to resolve the issue via this process:
bradford-smith94 commented on 2021-10-23 17:52 (UTC)
If you haven't run a system update in the last few days the
sgmllib
issue should be all worked out by now (it was on the mirrors closest to me).If you used the method posted by @m8D2 I would recommend that you run
sudo pacman -D --asdeps python-sgmllib3k
to have pacman properly track it as a dependency rather than explicitly installed (unless you want it explicitly installed).See also: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman#Installation_reason
bradford-smith94 commented on 2021-10-20 18:31 (UTC)
The
sgmllib
errors are caused by an update to thepython-feedparser
package droppingpython-sgmllib
as a dependency inpython-feedparser 6.0.1-1
this is recently fixed inpython-feedparser 6.0.1-2
. A system update should fix this issue once the latest version of the feedparser package hits your mirror.The solution posted by @m8D2 is correct if you need it before the feedparser update.
m8D2 commented on 2021-10-20 17:51 (UTC) (edited on 2021-10-20 17:54 (UTC) by m8D2)
@waitnsea, i solved this by uninstalling
informant
andpython-sgmlib
, system update and installingpython-sgmlib3k
and re-installinginformant
:waitnsea commented on 2021-10-20 08:01 (UTC)
When I use:
informant
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'sgmllib'
bouromain commented on 2021-02-20 00:13 (UTC)
I had a similar issue than @Aphosis.
However, installing with miniconda auto-activation set to false and without any virtual environment also made the trick.
Thank you for your work
bradford-smith94 commented on 2021-02-09 00:12 (UTC)
@Aphosis no problem, thanks for posting the solution. The PKGBUILD uses python to build and install, I should probably make that directly reference the system python in order to avoid virtualenv issues like you had.
Aphosis commented on 2021-02-08 23:21 (UTC)
@bradford-smith94 Thanks for the quick answer.
Found something odd when listing the files as you suggested: don't know how I managed to do that but the package was built using an old virtualenv of mine.
Had to delete it, remove the cache and reinstall, and now all works fine.
Thanks for the help !
bradford-smith94 commented on 2021-02-08 18:17 (UTC)
@Aphosis it should be in
/usr/bin/informant
, you can usepacman -Ql informant
to show what files have been installed by the package. Did you get any error while installing it?Aphosis commented on 2021-02-08 17:49 (UTC)
Hi,
First of all thanks for the awesome package.
It looks like informant broke for me a few updates ago, presumably since 0.4 or 0.4.1.
I didn't manage to make it work since then, it blocks pacman updates with a
call to execv failed (No such file or directory)
.What's weird is that the
informant
command itself is not available anymore. The current user is in theinformant
group.Where should I look for the executable (or Python script) ?
Thanks again.
bradford-smith94 commented on 2020-10-16 14:36 (UTC)
@dslink can you provide an example of what you are trying to do and what error message you are seeing?
dslink commented on 2020-10-16 04:13 (UTC)
the read command is making everything fail even just with pacman no aur helpers
commented on 2020-08-22 07:39 (UTC)
Oh okay, thanks for the explanation @bradford-smith94. I already have an alias+script in bashrc to update all system+AUR packages and clean orphaned ones etc, so I just add read and check to that before the update/upgrade commands so that it'll always succeed once pacman starts going over the hooks. And in case of install I can set up another alias, I think.
bradford-smith94 commented on 2020-08-21 23:44 (UTC)
@kortewegdevries I tried to make the hook interactive, it was my original idea and intention for the user to be able to read all unread news items and then choose to either continue or stop the transaction, but the pacman source code does not make that possible. When pacman executes a hook it closes stdin, so there is no way to get any input from the user. So doing
check
andread
in the hook is not possible to do in a way that makes sure the user has time to actually read the news.Since an interactive hook wasn't possible I chose to just have the hook stop updates so that you can have time to read the news before the transaction completes, especially since sometimes the news alerts you to manual intervention needed before/during the update.
In the case that there are more than 1 unread news items, you should use
informant read
before running an install/update. If you forget, that's fineinformant
will stop your update with a message like the screenshot you first posted. You can then useinformant read
and then re-run your update.In the case that there is exactly 1 unread news item, the hook (
check
command) will print it and still fail (so you have time to read the news). This way runninginformant read
as a second step is not required, you can just re-run your update.commented on 2020-08-19 05:32 (UTC)
Thanks @bradford-smith94. Do you mean I should do
informant read
on another terminal before running an install/update? Because currently the informant hook prevents pacman from completing if items are not read. And it just checks for new items, doesn't give me an option to read them in middle of a pacman transaction. To avoid this should the hook exec becheck
andread
both?commented on 2020-08-19 05:31 (UTC)
Thanks @bradford-smith94. Do you mean I should do
informant read
on another terminal before running an install/update? Because currently the informant hook prevents pacman from completing if items are not read. And it just checks for new items, doesn't give me an option to read them in middle of a pacman transaction. To avoid this should the hook exec becheck
andread
both.bradford-smith94 commented on 2020-08-18 20:43 (UTC)
@kortewegdevries That is the intended behavior.
informant
will stop your pacman transaction to give you time to/force you to read the news items that you may have missed. You can useinformant read
to read through the news items and then running your pacman command again should be successful.commented on 2020-08-10 11:14 (UTC)
Hi, is this warning supposed to be? I'm in the
informant
group and packages install just fine but the hook seems to report false...https://imgur.com/wG30EPZ Thanks.