Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> 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. ;-)
Dale
:-) :-)
