On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 4:26 PM, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> 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.
--
Rich
