feat(host-agent): updates on pacman, zypper and yum hosts (#5803, #5804)
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Agent 1.21.0. The hourly update check now covers the package managers
beyond apt and dnf (#5803 "The agent's update check reads pacman,
zypper and yum"):
- yum: `yum -C check-update`, `updateinfo list security`,
  `needs-restarting -r`, as dnf.
- zypper: `--no-refresh list-updates` (`--dup` on Tumbleweed),
  needed security patches from `list-patches --category security`,
  and `zypper needs-rebooting`.
- pacman: `checkupdates` from pacman-contrib, which install-deps.sh now
  installs. pacman has no security notion; a reboot is required once
  the running kernel's /usr/lib/modules/<release> is gone.
The checks sit in one UPDATE_CHECKS table, and a failure names its
manager.

The root helper's update runs on the same hosts (#5804 "The scheduled
update runs on pacman, zypper and yum hosts"): yum upgrade, zypper
refresh + update (dup on Tumbleweed, with 102/103 counted as success),
pacman -Syu. Each step carries a label so a failure says which one,
and the reboot check reads zypper and the pacman kernel too.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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2026-10-15 11:47:13 -04:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5.5
parent 1878f91293
commit 4054bf6bbb
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@@ -5,13 +5,14 @@
# and the host_agent playbooks: one copy of the list.
#
# smartmontools gives the helper smartctl, which reads each drive's health.
# On pacman hosts, pacman-contrib gives the agent checkupdates, the one safe
# way to see pending updates without root (#5803).
# A package that can't be installed is reported, never fatal: the agent runs
# without it and the host page says what is missing.
#
# Recommended / weak dependencies are skipped: on Debian, smartmontools
# recommends a mail server.
PACKAGES="smartmontools"
have() { command -v "$1" >/dev/null 2>&1; }
@@ -39,12 +40,15 @@ install_with() {
missing=""
have smartctl || missing="$missing smartmontools"
[ -n "$missing" ] || { echo "dependencies present: $PACKAGES"; exit 0; }
if have pacman && ! have checkupdates; then
missing="$missing pacman-contrib"
fi
[ -n "$missing" ] || { echo "dependencies present"; exit 0; }
# shellcheck disable=SC2086 # one word per package
if install_with $missing; then
echo "installed:$missing"
else
echo "WARNING: could not install$missing; drive health will read \"smartctl not installed\" until it is"
echo "WARNING: could not install$missing; until it is, drive health reads \"smartctl not installed\" (smartmontools) and the update check reads \"checkupdates isn't installed\" (pacman-contrib)"
fi
exit 0