Planning Service-Pack for Precise

Guys, I am planning to create a Service Pack for Precise Puppy 5.4.1. It will have various bug fixes, and will be a PET package.
Probably this will happen tonight and tomorrow morning.

A thought occurred to me, why not get the PPM to automatically check for existence of a Service Pack and ask the user if wants to install it?
Kind of like Windows, but I certainly don't want to go down the track of all the annoying popups in Windows requesting upgrades.

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Comments

Long Term Support
Username: Terryphi
[i]A thought occurred to me, why not get the PPM to automatically check for existence of a Service Pack and ask the user if wants to install it?[/i] That is a great idea. Maybe Precise can be a real LTS build. Another requirement is to identify and offer essential security updates that come from Ubuntu.

DEBs missing from repo
Username: BarryK
"I am reading through the Precise 5.4.1 Forum feedback thread, and have fixed some bugs, which will be in the Service Pack. One problem is that the PPM accesses the Ubuntu 'precise-updates' repository for Precise Pangolin 12.04.x, and unfortunately the DEBs change. Which means when you try to install a package, based on the local package database information, the DEB is no longer available in the repo (it has been upgraded to a later version, or release-number). So, I am thinking that perhaps the PPM can offer to update the local database the first time that the PPM is run. Even better, the PPM could "spider" the online 'Packages.bz2' files, which are the Ubuntu package database files, if changed from before (later modify date) then offer to update the local database. This test could be done when the PPM is started.

SSS translation
Username: rodin.s
"Barry, you used SSS-translation for 0setup. I tried to translate it. But SSS is dangerous. One small mistake and system will be broken. And this mistake was made my MoManager. It took me some time to understand what is going on. I even thought that my computer or hard drive is broken. I had that problem before but forgot about it. File script_strings.ru had to be edited manually. MoManager always breaks it small but important part and system as a whole is broken. On the left is a good file, on the right is a bad one. [img]http://img.by/i/24a1y.png[/img] I haven't tested all this yet. Posting from live system. But I guess this is the problem.

SSS translation
Username: rodin.s
"MoManager opens my good file like this. [img]http://img.by/i/fpQgL.png[/img] It means that if I edit and save it system won't boot and hang up.

backgrounded
Username: L 18 L
"[i] One small mistake and system will be broken. [/i] Suggest this fix: change script_strings to: [code]s%backgrounded%%[/code] that is: translate just text not brackets.

Re SSS
Username: BarryK
"Yeah, that is not good. I will have to think about it some more.

devx vs iso
Username: mavrothal
"Looking t the BaCon upgrad I was wondering if it is going to be a common update for both the main sfs and the devx or 2 different files? I would think that 2 is maybe more appropriate.

Re SSS
Username: BarryK
"rodin.s, Fix, see: http://bkhome.org/archive/blog2/201211/momanager-backslash-bug-fixed.html

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