- Remove the first setup wizard step to run security upgrades. At the time of
its introduction, it was felt that this is very important. Some things have
changed since then:
- We have mechanism for queuing package operations. Users can now trigger
software updates and start installing apps before that is completed. Or vice
versa. Earlier if the software updates were running, app install used to fail
with an error.
- There were no notifications. Since then we have added 'first setup'
notification for important topics such as Privacy. This step can be replaced
with a notification.
- Automatic diagnostics and a diagnostic to notify of updated packages also
helps bring attention to software updates if they are missed during first
setup.
- A proposed change will re-introduce an advice to run updates in the 'Next
steps' wizard step along with a button trigger it right there.
- The new notification for software updates will bring more attention to running
updates as part of first setup.
- It would be nice not be stuck in the first setup wizard for a long period and
make it look simple. It improves the fun factor of setting up FreedomBox.
- It would present an opportunity to utilize the parallel installation of
apps/updates to the full extent. Although this can also be done by skipping the
progress step after updates are run.
- First wizard steps tend to get less testing.
Tests:
- Run the first setup wizard by removing /var/lib/plinth/plinth.sqlite3 and
running the service. Notice that the software update step is not shown and
wizard completes successfully.
- On stable container, backports step is shown as expected (if not already
enabled).
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mohan Adapa <sunil@medhas.org>
Reviewed-by: Veiko Aasa <veiko17@disroot.org>
Tests:
- In non-development mode, button does not appear.
- On testing system, button does not appear.
- On stable system in development mode, the button appears.
- Pressing the button starts a dist-upgrade.
Signed-off-by: James Valleroy <jvalleroy@mailbox.org>
[sunil: Join strings that fit in the same line]
[sunil: Fix indentation in template]
[sunil: Change 'dist-upgrade' to 'distribution upgrade' in UI strings]
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mohan Adapa <sunil@medhas.org>
Reviewed-by: Sunil Mohan Adapa <sunil@medhas.org>
- In Django 2.2 django.conf.urls.url() is an alias to django.urls.re_path().
- In Django 4.0, url() function will be removed. On Django 3.2, it throws a
warning that this function will be removed in future.
Tests:
- Run unit tests with Django 3.2 and Django 2.2.
- With Django 3.2 there are no warnings when running unit tests and when running
FreedomBox Service.
- Visit a few affected apps with both Django versions.
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mohan Adapa <sunil@medhas.org>
Reviewed-by: James Valleroy <jvalleroy@mailbox.org>
Closes: #1855.
Tests:
- On unstable, first boot step is not shown. Backports are not
enabled.
- On testing, tested enabling backports at first boot step. Backports
are enabled.
- On testing, tested not enabling backports. Backports are not enabled
and can be activated later.
- On testing, confirmed that functional tests can click through the
first boot step.
- On stable with backports, first boot step is not shown. Backports
are enabled.
- On stable, tested enabling backports at first boot step. Backports
are enabled.
- On stable, tested not enabling backports. Backports are not enabled
and can be activated later.
Signed-off-by: James Valleroy <jvalleroy@mailbox.org>
[sunil: Avoid two different i18n strings with almost same content]
[sunil: Use box_name instead of hardcoded FreedomBox name]
[sunil: Use consistent terminology 'activate' instead of 'enable']
[sunil: Rename the wizard, form, view, url for consistency with existing code]
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mohan Adapa <sunil@medhas.org>
Reviewed-by: Sunil Mohan Adapa <sunil@medhas.org>
Reviewed-by: James Valleroy <jvalleroy@mailbox.org>
- adapted all modules to not use views.ConfigurationView anymore
- removed templates that are not needed anymore
- no more implicit 'enabled' and 'get_status' functions in __init__.py files
- (more coherent/explicit use of Django functionality)
- Closes#366 and closes#304 (all sub-tasks).
- Start new process group with setsid() by sending
start_new_session=True
- Detach from parent process fds by closing all FDs and attaching stdin,
stdou and stderr to /dev/null.
- Don't wait for the process to complete.
- This allows for upgrading Plinth while upgrades are trigged from
Plinth itself.
- Show log of upgrade exection instead of output and error log of the
process which can no longer be collected. This has the advantage of
showing automatic executions also.
- Rewrite the mechanism to detect whether upgrades can be run. It is
now based on whether the package manager is busy. This has the
advantage of working properly if other apt processes are running,
automatic upgrades are running, etc.
- Busy status works even if Plinth is restarted while upgrades are in
progress.
- More descriptive messages showing that upgrades don't have to be
triggered manually.
- Warn that other packages can't be installed while upgrades are
running, which may take a long time.
- Warn the users of potential temporary unavailability of
Plinth/Apache2.
