Re: [pve-devel] [PATCH manager 2/2] Close #1295: Make apt notifications configurable

[Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@proxmox.com>]

On 07.04.21 10:30, Dominic Jäger wrote:
> This way all users, including subscription users, can decide if they want to
> receive notifications mails from pveupdate or not. Disabling notifications is
> desirable if available updates are monitored externally, for example.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dominic Jäger <d.jaeger@proxmox.com>
> ---
>  bin/pveupdate                 | 4 +---
>  www/manager6/dc/OptionView.js | 5 +++++
>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/bin/pveupdate b/bin/pveupdate
> index 99b52fe9..37e6e518 100755
> --- a/bin/pveupdate
> +++ b/bin/pveupdate
> @@ -50,9 +50,7 @@ if (my $err = $@) {
>  }
>  
>  my $info = PVE::INotify::read_file('subscription');
> -# We assume that users with subscriptions want informations
> -# about new packages.
> -my $notify = ($info && $info->{status} eq 'Active') ? 1 : 0;
> +my $notify = $dccfg->{notify_updates} // 1;

We may want to keep the default value the same, i.e.:

my $notify = $dccfg->{notify_updates} // ($info && $info->{status} eq 'Active');

or if it's important that the perl "boolean" is stricly 0 or 1 then:

my $notify_default = ($info && $info->{status} eq 'Active') ? 1 : 0;
my $notify = $dccfg->{notify_updates} // $notify_default;


(the following is actually meant for the pve-cluster patch):
I'd really prefer using a colon for new config property entries, and I can imagine
that there will be more such switches in the future, so maybe start out with a format
sting (like migration is there) and have something like:

'notify: package-updates=1'

what do you think?


>  eval { PVE::API2::APT->update_database({ node => $nodename, notify => $notify, quiet => 1 }); };
>  if (my $err = $@) {
>      syslog ('err', "update apt database failed: $err");
> diff --git a/www/manager6/dc/OptionView.js b/www/manager6/dc/OptionView.js
> index 0e783cf4..b36acd07 100644
> --- a/www/manager6/dc/OptionView.js
> +++ b/www/manager6/dc/OptionView.js
> @@ -92,6 +92,11 @@ Ext.define('PVE.dc.OptionView', {
>  	    vtype: 'proxmoxMail',
>  	    defaultValue: 'root@$hostname',
>  	});
> +	me.add_boolean_row(
> +	    'notify_updates',
> +	    gettext('Notify about updates'),
> +	    { defaultValue: 1 },
> +	);
>  	me.add_text_row('mac_prefix', gettext('MAC address prefix'), {
>  	    deleteEmpty: true,
>  	    vtype: 'MacPrefix',
>