diff --git a/src/usr/doc/UPDATELIST-DEBUGGING b/src/usr/doc/UPDATELIST-DEBUGGING new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c73df52 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/usr/doc/UPDATELIST-DEBUGGING @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +Starting with sbopkg version 0.0.8, there is a feature that displays +potential updates to SBo packages installed on a user's system. This +feature is still a work in progress, and bugs are expected. Most bugs +will manifest themselves as either (a) missing updates -- those +updates that should appear in the list but do not or (b) false +positives -- updates listed in the list that are not really updates at +all. If you run into either of these problems, please do the +following in order to assist with bug-reporting: + +As a root user, please open up /usr/bin/sbopkg in your favorite text +editor and uncomment the following line in the "Variables" section +near the top of the file: + +#UPDATE_DEBUG="1" + +so that it looks like this: + +UPDATE_DEBUG="1" + +Then, save the file and rerun sbopkg. Please select the update +feature as normal and then exit sbopkg. A permanent log of the update +list will now be saved in $TMP/sbopkg-debug-updatelist. Please +forward this log to me via email to chess@chessgriffin.com or post in +the sbopkg mailing list, which can be found at the project's homepage: +http://code.google.com/p/sbopkg. + +Once you have forwarded or copied the log to a safe location, feel +free to comment out that single line in /usr/bin/sbopkg again, which +will then disable the creation of the permanent update log, keeping +your $TMP clean. Of course, leaving the line uncommented is fine as +well and will create a new $TMP/sbopkg-debug-updatelist each time the +update feature is used. + +Thanks for your help!