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Downloads:

157

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157

Last Update:

24 Apr 2018

Package Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • bcurran3

Tags:

bcurran3 unofficial choco persistent packages schtasks scheduled task

(unofficial) Choco Persistent Packages Abort (Task)

Downloads:

157

Downloads of v 0.0.1:

157

Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • bcurran3

(unofficial) Choco Persistent Packages Abort (Task)

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This package was rejected on 07 May 2018. The reviewer gep13 has listed the following reason(s):

bcurran3 (maintainer) on 24 Apr 2018 04:05:38 +00:00:

User 'bcurran3' (maintainer) submitted package.

bcurran3 (maintainer) on 24 Apr 2018 04:22:00 +00:00:

User 'bcurran3' (maintainer) submitted package.

bcurran3 (maintainer) on 24 Apr 2018 04:25:59 +00:00:

User 'bcurran3' (maintainer) submitted package.

chocolatey-ops (reviewer) on 24 Apr 2018 04:57:08 +00:00:

choco-persistent-packages-abort has passed automated validation. It may have or may still fail other checks like testing (verification).
NOTE: No required changes that the validator checks have been flagged! It is appreciated if you fix other items, but only Requirements will hold up a package version from approval. A human review could still turn up issues a computer may not easily find.

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chocolatey-ops (reviewer) on 24 Apr 2018 05:07:50 +00:00:

choco-persistent-packages-abort has passed automated testing.
This is not the only check that is performed so check the package page to ensure a 'Ready' status.
Please visit https://gist.github.com/9e8dfdbaae6c2696991f72bac41a37ff for details.
This is an FYI only. There is no action you need to take.

bcurran3 (maintainer) on 24 Apr 2018 10:43:51 +00:00:

User 'bcurran3' (maintainer) submitted package.

chocolatey-ops (reviewer) on 24 Apr 2018 11:17:44 +00:00:

choco-persistent-packages-abort has passed automated validation. It may have or may still fail other checks like testing (verification).
NOTE: No required changes that the validator checks have been flagged! It is appreciated if you fix other items, but only Requirements will hold up a package version from approval. A human review could still turn up issues a computer may not easily find.

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Notes

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chocolatey-ops (reviewer) on 24 Apr 2018 11:24:48 +00:00:

choco-persistent-packages-abort has passed automated testing.
This is not the only check that is performed so check the package page to ensure a 'Ready' status.
Please visit https://gist.github.com/ea54fd7b11a709b363543da0ffa4940c for details.
This is an FYI only. There is no action you need to take.

bcurran3 (maintainer) on 25 Apr 2018 09:42:41 +00:00:

In hindsight now I'm wondering if I should just add an ABORTTASK option right into the choco-persistent-packages. Thoughts?

gep13 (reviewer) on 25 Apr 2018 10:08:42 +00:00:

You mean to allow for overriding/removing of an existing task during the installation?

bcurran3 (maintainer) on 25 Apr 2018 10:56:01 +00:00:

I mean to add the 2nd task (the kill task) as an option in the main script. Shouldn't be to hard. Just complicates installation.

gep13 (reviewer) on 26 Apr 2018 08:00:35 +00:00:

Sounds like a good idea to me.

bcurran3 (maintainer) on 06 May 2018 11:30:31 +00:00:

Please reject, choco-persistent-packages has been updated with this feature.

gep13 (reviewer) on 07 May 2018 08:50:01 +00:00:

Rejecting as per maintainer request.
Status Change - Changed status of package from 'submitted' to 'rejected'.

Description

IF YOU USE choco-persistent-packages, YOU WANT THIS TOO!

...BECAUSE SOMETIMES PACKAGE INSTALLATIONS GO WRONG.

This is a companion package for choco-persistent-packages.

This package creates a Windows Scheduled Task to run "taskkill /im choco.exe /f /t" at a time you specify. The command "taskkill /im choco.exe /f /t" will stop the Chocolatey (choco.exe) process and all child processes.

"Um, why do I want this?" you're thinking. You want this because sometimes background package installations go wrong. "Go wrong?" you're thinking. Yes, there are a couple scenarios where a Chocolatey package installation/upgrade can hang: if a package needs input, if an AutoHotKey or AutoIt script fails, and all those times a program installer pops up a browser window to tell you "Thank you." These scenarios leave hung processes in the background with no way for you to easily interact with them (They're in the background!). This means they are taking up memory resources for no reason and might cause problems installing other packages or programs. If you knew there was a hung process, you could manually stop the task, but who wants to check every day? This will automate checking and stopping any Chocolatey package hung tasks at the time you specify. I recommend setting it to a time an hour or two after you run choco-persistent-packages.

INSTRUCTIONS:

You can set the time by running choco install choco-persistent-packages-abort --params "'/ABORTTIME:XX:XX'" where XX:XX equals the "Military Time" to stop Chocolatey updates. Not entering the correct format will fail the install. Please see the examples.

INSTALL EXAMPLES:

  • choco install choco-persistent-packages-abort --params "'/ABORTTIME:03:00'" - stops persistent package (re)installs at 3 AM
  • choco install choco-persistent-packages-abort --params "'/ABORTTIME:06:30'" - stops persistent package (re)installs at 6:30 AM
  • choco install choco-persistent-packages-abort --params "'/ABORTTIME:20:00'" - stops persistent package (re)installs at 8 PM
  • choco install choco-persistent-packages-abort --params "'/ABORTTIME:23:30'" - stops persistent package (re)installs at 11:30 PM

A NOTE ON DEFAULTS:

  • If you don't specify any parameters, choco-persistent-packages-abort defaults to running daily at 1:30 AM. (My preference!) This was chosen since the default runtime for choco-persistent-packages is MIDNIGHT which gives 1 1/2 hours for updates to run before aborting if necessary and if you're using choco-upgrade-all-at the default kick off time for that is 2 AM.

PACKAGE NOTES


tools\chocolateyinstall.ps1
$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'
$packageName = 'choco-persistent-packages-abort'
$pp          = Get-PackageParameters
   
Write-Host "" 
Write-Host "choco-persistent-packages-abort Summary:" -foreground magenta

if ($pp["ABORTTIME"] -eq $null -or $pp["ABORTTIME"] -eq ''){
      Write-Host " * ABORTTIME NOT specified, defaulting to 01:30." -foreground magenta
	  $AbortTime = "01:30"
    } else {
	  $AbortTime = $pp["ABORTTIME"]
	  Write-Host " * ABORTTIME specified as $AbortTime." -foreground magenta
    } 
SchTasks /CREATE /SC DAILY /RU SYSTEM /RL HIGHEST /TN choco-persistent-packages-abort /TR "taskkill /im choco.exe /f /t" /ST $AbortTime /F
SchTasks /query /tn choco-persistent-packages-abort
tools\chocolateyuninstall.ps1
$packageName = 'choco-persistent-packages-abort'

SchTasks /Delete /TN choco-persistent-packages-abort /F

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