Change Log¶
All notable changes to gempa software manger(GSM) will be documented in this file.
2025.161 1.6.8¶
Changed¶
Skip data packages on do-release-down/upgrade/switch-os
2025.161 1.6.7¶
Important¶
Please run ./gsm reinstall gsm
Changed¶
Print more information
2025.140 1.6.6¶
Fixed¶
Broken migration scripts due to Python venv changes
2025.139 1.6.5¶
Added¶
The installation of dependencies has been greatly simplified. Required dependencies are now automatically installed in a virtual environment (venv) so that they can be managed separately from other applications.
GSM can be called from anywhere if set in the path
Fixed¶
AlmaLinux support
Changed¶
The default behavior of gsm update has been changed so that the installation of package updates must be explicitly requested
2025.038 1.6.4¶
Fixed¶
GnuPG import error
Added¶
Support for new elevation package
2025.030 1.6.3¶
Fixed¶
Fix migrations
2025.023 1.6.2¶
Fixed¶
Python < 3.8 support
2025.022 1.6.1¶
Fixed¶
Create install directory (velocity packages) if not exists
2025.022 1.6.0¶
Fixed¶
Removal of unused dependencies (pip install from configparser)
Added¶
More logs to log/gsm.log file
Option to backup downloaded package files. By default this feature is disabled. The backup can be enabled in the gsm.conf as follows:
backup_package_enable = [True/False] backup_package_path = /home/data/gsm/backup
Option to clean backups
gsm clean backups
Optional package verification with gpg signature. The verification check can be enabled in the gsm configuration as shown below.
gpgverify = [True/False]
Option to display configuration option for the gsm.conf
gsm help config
Dependency installation of packages
2025.016 1.5.2¶
Fixed¶
Delayed execution on systems with connection proxy
2024.310 1.5.1¶
Fixed¶
Library link creation
2024.292 1.5.0¶
Fixed¶
Install location permission check
2024.246 1.4.9¶
Fixed¶
Broken
switch-os
functionalityFile modification time of description files
Missing gsm update check before installing packages
2024.226 1.4.8¶
Added¶
Option to show activated and public modules
Setup input validation checks
Fixed¶
Reinstallation of packages in offline mode
Missing update before release up- or downgrade
2024.088 1.4.7¶
Added¶
Option to list dependencies of installed modules, e.g.,
gsm info deps [package]
Option
hold files
. This command set files on hold and these files are not touched when packages are updated or removed.
2023.353 1.4.6¶
Fixed¶
Reinstall output messages
Initial setup run
2023.354 1.4.5¶
Added¶
Add option
info short
. This command makes it easier to copy the names of the installed packages and the output can be used as input for gsm commands.gsm shows a hint when the selected OS/release is not supported anymore.
gsm suggests related packages during installation
Rename option
install-licenses
toinstall licenses
Rename option
showall
toshow all
Allow the installation of licences even if the corresponding package is not installed. Use command line gsm install licenses -f
2023.353 1.4.4¶
Fixed¶
Tarfile security warning
GSM update
2023.333 1.4.2¶
Changed¶
Change default release to SeisComP 6
Improve data package installation
Fixed¶
Rework switch-os output
2023.325 1.4.1¶
Changed¶
Display of the info texts changed
2023.325 1.4.0¶
Added¶
Display progress indicator when checking checksums
Add option to do a release downgrade, e.g., to switch from nightly to a stable release.
Fixed¶
Map installation
Changed¶
Improve custom package installation, used new package description files
2023.293 1.3.9¶
Fixed¶
Hotfix after removing SeisComP3
2023.293 1.3.8¶
Fixed¶
Version number comparison
2023.240 1.3.7¶
Changed¶
Improve custom package installation
2023.228 1.3.6¶
Changed¶
Improve custom package installation
Fixed¶
Conflict evaluation
2023.227 1.3.5¶
Changed¶
Improve custom package installation
2023.223 1.3.4¶
Added¶
Packages can be installed when calling update
Display packages to be installed
Fixed¶
gsm info was not displayed correctly when there is no sync directory
2023.209 1.3.3¶
Fixed¶
Update data packages
2023.208 1.3.2¶
Added¶
Display message when a new SeisComP release is available
The list of packages to be updated shows the period allowed for installing updates and the period until the license expires.
quakelink (2023.047) --> 2023.151 [License expires in 10 days (2023-06-15)]
gsm info now also shows the expiration time for the license and the update
Installed packages Version Valid until Updates until ------------------ ------- ----------- -------------- ... quakelink 2023.047 2024-03-20 2024-03-20 ...
2023.195 1.3.1¶
Changed¶
Evaluate installPath package option for all packages
2023.129 1.3.0¶
Added¶
New option to install packages from local file
gsm localinstall scanloc-2023.128-seiscomp-5-rhel-8-x86_64.tar.gz
2023.109 1.2.9¶
Added¶
Support to select the public SeisComP repository in setup
Fixed¶
Install path issue
2023.072 1.2.8¶
Added¶
Offline mode to allow the installation of packages on systems without internet access. A usecase is given in the section “Offline workflow” in README.
Changed¶
Follow webserver redirections
2023.016 1.2.7¶
Changed¶
Minor changes
2023.002 1.2.6¶
Added¶
New option to upgrade all installed packages for a new operating system
gsm switch-os
Improved gsm updater. The new version includes a migration feature that will help to run future gsm updates smoother. gsm displays a notice if unapplied migrations have been found. Those can be run as follows:
gsm migrate
Notice when the login credentials are wrong
Changed¶
Improved release upgrade
Take checksum into account when looking for package updates
Updated install instructions
2022-07-11 1.2.5¶
Changed¶
do-release upgrade checks licenses before upgrade
2022-06-22 1.2.4¶
Changed¶
Show only available packages depending on settings
2022-06-22 1.2.3¶
Fixed¶
Install exit code
2022-06-03 1.2.2¶
Changed¶
Use x86_64 as default system architecture
2022-06-03 1.2.1¶
Changed¶
Suggest to update gsm before updating packages when there is a new gsm package available
2022-06-03 1.2.0¶
Changed¶
Minor optimizations
2022-03-24¶
Added¶
SeedLink server update instructions
2022-02-14¶
Important¶
Support for Python2 was dropped. If Python3 is not installed on your system you need to install it including all gsm dependencies.
Changed¶
Remove psutil dependency
Installation of updates without stopping of running modules. Note: The module still needs to be restarted to run the latest version.
Move large data packages from the download to installation directory:
Rationale: Save disk space.
Precondition: The download and installation directory must reside on the same file system.
Suppress traceback on KeyboardInterrupt (Ctrl+C)
Fixed¶
seiscomp-wrapper
creationgreensfunction installation folder
Application crashes for running modules sharing a library with module being installed.
2021-09-08¶
Changed¶
Rework of the do-release-upgrade function. The new implementation checks for running processes and downloads new packages before the upgrade is started.
2021-08-12¶
Added¶
Option to hold/unhold packages. Use the hold command to mark a package as held back, which will prevent the package from being automatically installed or upgraded. For instance:
gsm hold scanloc
Option to show packages on hold
2021-08-06¶
Fixed¶
install
command
2021-08-02¶
Added¶
Show a hint when a package is no longer supported.
2021-07-27¶
Fixed¶
reinstall
command
2021-07-19¶
Fixed¶
do-release-upgrade
command
2021-07-15¶
Fixed¶
Trailing path separators were not handled correctly and problems occurred when installing packages.
2021-07-02¶
Important¶
We have fixed a typo in the package description format. The new package database is already in place and breaks existing gsm installations. It is necessary to install the gsm release 1.0.1 so that packages can be installed as usual. Unfortunately, the update could not be done automatically and requires user interaction. Please follow the migration guide below.
Download the latest version with
cd install wget https://data.gempa.de/gsm/gempa-gsm.tar.gz
Extract the package
tar xvfz gempa-gsm.tar.gz
Remove the sync cache
cd gsm rm -rf sync
Update the package cache
./gsm update
Fixed¶
Typo in package descriptions
Changed¶
gsm info gsm
shows N/A for some properties as long as no update has been done.
2021-07-01¶
Changed¶
Bump version to 1.0.0
2021-06-29¶
Fixed¶
The program can not be started without configuration file.
2021-06-28¶
Added¶
Support to define conflicts in package description
2021-06-23¶
Fixed¶
Show package command
Added¶
Support to install slabs-rum and slabs-usgs package
2021-06-15¶
Fixed¶
Sync cache package reading
2021-06-14¶
Changed¶
Rework of the do-release-upgrade feature
2021-06-08¶
Changed¶
All packages except configuration packages are removed before an update is installed.
2021-06-01¶
Fixed¶
Installation of map packages
2021-05-27¶
Fixed¶
License handling
Package download error handling
2021-04-30¶
Fixed¶
Detect OS on Raspbian (arm)
Show SeisComP minor and patch updates when running
gsm update
2021-04-14¶
Added¶
Do release upgrade feature
gsm do-release-upgrade
2021-03-19¶
Fixed¶
Install dir write permission check
2021-02-15¶
Fixed¶
OS detection. The previous approach did not work with Debian.
Added¶
Support to install oq-engine package
Changed¶
Update install instructions
2021-01-08¶
Important¶
Discontinuation of CentOS 8 support by RedHat**¶
The CentOS team recently announced the switch from CentOS to CentOS Streams:
Therein the following end of life (EOL) dates are announced:
CentOS 8: December 31, 2021
CentOS 7: June 30th, 2024
As a consequence we do not recommend our customers to upgrade from CentOS 7 to 8 for now. Ultimately, there will be a successor of CentOS, e.g. Rocky Linux, which offers an upgrade path from CentOS. Also there are already RHEL compatible and free alternatives, with Oracle Linux being probably among the most suitable candidates.
gempa will continue to support RHEL 7, 8, and newer versions, as it is the current industry standard. However, we will not be able to support CentOS Streams because of it’s rolling release cycle and because it is not binary compatible to RHEL.
To clarify our support for RHEL we renamed gempa’s package directory structure and package file names from centos to rhel. For users of the gempa software manger (gsm) this change is transparent as gsm will automatically convert an existing configuration respectively detect a new CentOS installation to be a RHEL compatible distribution.
2020-12-14¶
Fixed¶
Show help page only once
Show important changes
2020-12-01¶
Fixed¶
Nightly build update issues
2020-11-23¶
Fixed¶
Self update issues
2020-11-03¶
Fixed¶
The running module check did not check the full path. This led to that in case of more than one SeisComP installation packages might not install.
The display of important changelog information
Changed¶
With this release you can search modules by keywords, e.g.,
data acquisition
ortsunami
.gsm search data acquisition
Show only a warning message if the
license.txt
could not be downloadedgsm creates the
seiscomp-python
script if it does not existUpdated help page
2020-09-02¶
Fixed¶
gsm update
displays new gsm releases. There is no longer the need to run the command twice.Display error message when a file cannot be removed from disk. e.g.,
File not found
Show Important changes only if necessary
2020-08-19¶
Added¶
Some Python package manager e.g. pip needs superuser rights to install the
psutil
package. In order that packages can be installed even an user has no superuser rights we ask the user if he wants to skip the running module check if thepsutils
package couldn’t be found.
2020-08-07¶
Changed¶
Before installing or removing packages we check if there are any errors, e.g., a package cannot be downloaded. In case of an error user interaction is required.
Show packages sorted when running
gsm install
Fixed¶
Show important update information
Uninstall in case of package downgrade
OS detection e.g. CentOS 8
2020-07-30¶
Changed¶
Show detailed information if a file download fails
Show relevant information of the changelog only if a module has been installed before.
Option to confirm package installation only once
Fixed¶
Improved check if a module is running.
OS detection
2020-07-08¶
Important¶
The new version requires the
psutil
Python package. See the README for install instructions.
Changed¶
Don’t allow to install updates when the specific application is running.
Fixed¶
show changelog
command
2020-06-30¶
Important¶
The new version requires the
humanize
Python package. See the README for install instructions.
Added¶
New configuration option
install_path
. Previously, applications were always installed in theseiscomp3
orseiscomp``directory. Use this option to set a user-defined root path, e.g., ``install_path=/home/sysop/seiscomp4
/home/sysop/seiscomp4 bin etc ...
Support for
jakarta-nightly
builds. At the moment nightly builds does not have an explicit version number so the command./gsm install seiscomp3
installs always the latest available version without any user interaction. The builds does not appear in the update list either.
Changed¶
Package installation summary shows more useful information e.g. the install dir.
2020-05-26¶
Important¶
The new version requires the
natsort
Python package. See the README for install instructions.
Changed¶
Show summary after package install
Fixed¶
Install the licenses of all given modules
2020-05-26¶
Changed¶
Prepared the introduction of library versions
Fixed¶
Show human readable error description when the data directory couldn’t be created.
2020-05-18¶
Added¶
New commandline option
assumeyes
. With this option gsm assumes that the answer to any question which would be asked is yes.gsm -y install scanloc
Fixed¶
Non zero exit code on success. With this release gsm returns zero on success.
2020-05-11¶
Changed¶
We have improved the source code and introduced unit tests to make gsm more stable.
2020-04-28¶
Fixed¶
core.db
downloadBroken install command under Python 3
2020-04-22¶
Fixed¶
Handle incomplete download
2020-03-19¶
Fixed¶
So far
./gsm update
had to be called twice to see the latest package update list.Handle corrupt local package cache
2020-03-09¶
Fixed¶
Handle incomplete file structure, e.g., if a file has been removed from local cache from outside.
2020-02-25¶
Changed¶
gsm reinstall
re-installs all installed packagesgsm.conf
optionpackages
is no longer taken into account. From now on we read the installed package information from the local cache only.
2020-02-17¶
Added¶
Added
install-licenses
command. Without further arguments the licenses of the installed modules are updated, e.g.,gsm install-licenses
2020-01-31¶
Fixed¶
Broken license installation
2020-01-23¶
Changed¶
License check takes local licenses into account
2020-01-22¶
Fixed¶
Broken
gsm install
command. When no package is specified gsm reads the packages from thegsm.conf
.
2020-01-17¶
Added¶
reinstall
command. With this command installed packages can be reinstalled if necessary, e.g.,gsm reinstall scanloc
Show important update information if necessary.
Changed¶
Make code PEP 8 style guide compatible
Fixed¶
Missing python dependency
2019-12-05¶
Fixed¶
Corrected typos. This change breaks existing installations. Please run the following commands to migrate the local package file database.
cd gsm/local find -name desc | xargs -i sed -i 's/pgkinstallsize/pkginstallsize/g' {} find -name desc | xargs -i sed -i 's/pgksize/pkgsize/g' {}
2019-12-04¶
Added¶
Python3 support
Install log available at
gsm/log/gsm.log
2019-11-06¶
Added¶
Support to install data files like maps, greensfunctions and velocity files, e.g.,
gsm install world-final-zoom10
2019-11-04¶
Fixed¶
Correct typos
2019-10-23¶
Changed¶
Default SeisComP3 release to 2018.327
More logging
Fixed¶
Handling of default values of input fields
2019-10-21¶
Fixed¶
Progress bar
Make remove operation more stable
2019-10-16¶
Changed¶
Show download speed
2019-10-15¶
Changed¶
New gsm major release. The new release contains the following features:
Tracking of installed packages
Support to remove installed packages
Support to download data files e.g. greensfunctions or maps
Support to install a specific version
gsm install gds=2019.287
SeisComP3 patch release support
Shows list of modules that can be updated
Update gsm with gsm
2019-05-23¶
Fixed¶
Do not show a warning if a license file can not be found on server side. This is a workaround because we do not know which modules require a license.
Added¶
New command line option
version
that displays version information
2019-04-18¶
Fixed¶
install-licenses
command. The previous version did not download the license files properly.
Added¶
New command line option
show-urls
. Use this option to display the full URLs
Changed¶
Command line output
2019-03-27¶
Changed¶
Remove license install option. With this version we install the licenses for all selected packages.
2019-02-13¶
Added¶
Show error message for unsupported SeisComP3 release
2019-01-08¶
Fixed¶
README
2018-04-19¶
Added¶
Support to add script to system path
2018-04-03¶
Fixed¶
Package name parser
Added¶
Show download progress
2017-01-08¶
Added¶
Support to download and install license files via the command
gsm install licenses
all available license files will be downloaded and installed
2017-06-21¶
Fixed¶
Show all available modules even packages are selected by configuration
2017-04-25¶
Added¶
Show full download URLs
2017-04-24¶
Added¶
Support to view module change log