On Wednesday 07 Jun 2017 16:35:02 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 4:26 PM, Harry Putnam <[email protected]> wrote: > > Maybe some of you can steer me toward some documentation or tools etc > > that help a gentoo user to do automated updates. > > Unmonitored updates sounds like a recipe for problems. However, I do > have a cron job that does a --sync and then builds binary packages for > everything, and it emails me the emerge -pu output. Then if I'm happy > with it I can just install the binary packages. > > To build everything (this could be cleaned up a bit or parallelized, > and I stole it off of the lists): > #!/bin/sh > > LIST=$(mktemp); > > emerge -puD --changed-use --color=n --columns --quiet=y --changed-deps > --with-bdeps=n --backtrack=100 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 > > To install the packages you built: > ionice -c 3 nice -n 15 emerge -uDkv --changed-use --keep-going > --with-bdeps=n --changed-deps --binpkg-changed-deps=y --backtrack=100 > world > > Note that binary packages can only be built one level of dependencies > deep, so if you're doing something like a kde update you'll still end > up doing a LOT of building. Then again, it often takes care of some > pretty big first-level dependencies like kdelibs. Typically over 80% > of my package installs end up being from binaries, and often the stuff > that isn't is small. If somebody triggers a rebuild of chromium then > that is a different story, but most chromium updates get built > overnight.
I have stayed away from automating updates because every now and then there are profile changes, which add or remove USE flags. I prefer to consider these, rather than have them applied automatically. I may also decide to hold back some package updates for a while. -- Regards, Mick
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