Corrected script, suggest using with >portage-2.0.51.
Here's a script I have to handle running the updates.
If the portage hasn't been synced that day, it will clean out
the ccache files and distfiles, then sync portage.
Last line runs emerge to start updating the all the packages.
#!/bin/bash
#
# File: update.sh
# Version: 20050421
# Author: Kirk Schneider
# About: script to handle Gentoo portage updates
#
TIMESTAMP=`find /usr/portage/metadata/ -maxdepth 1 -type f -mtime 0`
if [ -z "${TIMESTAMP}" ]; then
if [ -f /usr/bin/ccache ]; then
/usr/bin/ccache -C
fi
rm /usr/portage/distfiles/*
rm -rf /var/tmp/portage/*
if [ -n "${RSYNC_PROXY}" ]; then
/usr/bin/emerge --sync
elif [ -n "${http_proxy}" ]; then
/usr/sbin/emerge-webrsync
elif [ -n "${ftp_proxy}" ]; then
/usr/sbin/emerge-webrsync
else
/usr/bin/emerge --sync
fi
/usr/sbin/fixpackages
fi
/usr/bin/emerge --ask --deep --newuse --update --verbose world
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Kirk Schneider
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