On Sunday, August 16, 2015 9:58:43 AM Dale wrote: > Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Dale <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Peter Humphrey wrote: > >>> On Monday 10 August 2015 09:13:01 Dale wrote: > >>> > >>>> I might add, sync is taking a LONG time again. Of course, my DSL is a > >>>> bit slower than some folks. At least the bumpy road got smoothed out > >>>> tho. It seems to be working again. Maybe next sync will be back to > >>>> normal. > >>> I do one sync a day, of my LAN server, and sync anything else to that. I don't > >>> know how long it took today because I have it on a cron job at night. :-) > >>> > >> > >> I usually sync about twice a week, sometimes three if I see something I > >> want or need. I just run my desktop here so updating isn't a huge > >> deal. Sometimes I forget because I'm busy with other things and I might > >> go a week or more without a single sync up. > >> > >> When I used to run several rigs, I'd sync one rig and then sync the > >> others to my main rig. I try not to sync to often. > > I couldn't tell you who I ripped this off of but my cron routine is: > > > > ionice -n 7 nice -n 20 emerge --sync (alternatively > > emerge-webrsync -k - preferred actually if you're using rsync) > > ionice -n 7 nice -n 20 layman -S > > emerge -puDv --changed-use world | col -bx | mutt -s "world update" > > root@localhost > > eix-update > > > > Then I do this: > > #!/bin/sh > > > > LIST=$(mktemp); > > > > emerge -puD --changed-use --color=n --columns --quiet=y --with-bdeps=n > > world | awk '{print $2}' > ${LIST}; > > > > for PACKAGE in $(cat ${LIST}); > > do > > printf "Building binary package for ${PACKAGE}... " > > emerge -uN --quiet-build --quiet=y --buildpkgonly ${PACKAGE}; > > if [[ $? -eq 0 ]]; > > then > > echo "ok"; > > else > > echo "failed"; > > fi > > done > > > > That isn't optimally efficient, but works reasonably well. > > > > The result is that the next morning I have an email containing a list > > of the stuff to be merged, and a set of binary packages for most of it > > (deps of modified packages cannot be pre-built in this way of course). > > Then I just run an "emerge -uDNkv" world to install all of it, often > > in minutes. > > > > The script could be optimized - if libreoffice and chromium are on the > > list and I don't install them for a few days, suffice it to say that > > the heater won't be running as much those nights. > > > > Well, I only have one rig right now. May save this for when I build a > spare or something. > > Oh, I also ran across a link to this bug: > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=557192 > > It seems there is still a few kinks to work out. ;-)
It finally seems to be fixed. I synced twice in a row and the 2nd time it only synced 3 files. > Dale > > :-) :-) > -- Fernando Rodriguez
