on 04/19/2011 03:40 PM Joost Roeleveld wrote the following:
> On Tuesday 19 April 2011 09:04:18 Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:57:07 +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote:
>>>>> Incidentally, my cron script that runs emerge --sync follows it
>>>>> with
>>>>> emerge-uDNf world, so the files are already in $DISTDIR when I
>>>>> want
>>>>> to update.
>>>> Can you post the script?
>>> My guess is that the script would be something like the following:
>>> =====
>>> #!/bin/sh
>>> #
>>> emerge --sync
>>> emerge -uDNf world
>>> =====
>> That's the gist of it, although it also emails the output from emerge
>> -pvDN world, so I can see what needs to be done. It runs a few other
>> bits, like glsa-check.
> Like the following?
> =====
> #!/bin/sh
> #
> /bin/mkdir /tmp/ABBAABBA_portage_sync
>
> /usr/bin/layman -S
>
> /usr/bin/eix-sync
>
> /usr/bin/glsa-check -d $(/usr/bin/glsa-check -t all) >
> /tmp/ABBAABBA_portage_sync/portage_sync_glsa.log
>
> /bin/mail -e -s "Portage Sync [GLSA-log]" memyselfa...@example.org <
> /tmp/ABBAABBA_portage_sync/portage_sync_glsa.log
>
> /bin/rm /tmp/ABBAABBA_portage_sync/portage_sync_glsa.log
>
> /usr/bin/emerge -pvauD --newuse world >
> /tmp/ABBAABBA_portage_sync/portage_sync_emerge.log
>
> /bin/mail -e -s "Portage Sync [EMERGE-list]" memyselfa...@example.org <
> /tmp/ABBAABBA_portage_sync/portage_sync_emerge.log
>
> /bin/rm /tmp/ABBAABBA_portage_sync/portage_sync_emerge.log
>
> /bin/rmdir /tmp/ABBAABBA_portage_sync
> =====
> In the above script, I put an empty line between each command for readability.
>
> This is what I run on my system.
>
> --
> Joost
Joost, Thanks!
:)
