Re: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow

[Glenn Enright <elinar@ihug.co.nz>]

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 12:12, Paweł Madej wrote:
> Dunc wrote:
> > For something you should only do once a day, 10 minutes isn't that bad
> > though.
>
> I sync not day by day but 2-3 times a week but when I sync I want to run
> just after it emerge of updates (I follow new ebuilds on [1] site and
> run emerge if sth interesting for me  appears there).
>
> My other question is if there is some script which could follow rrs from
> [1] and run emerge sync and emerge -uND world after there is for example
> 10 ebuild updated comparing to my system, or other way that it will
> email me that there is 10 ebuilds new and i should run sync manually.
>
> Greets
> Paweł
I second esync. It is a nice script that runs a little faster than 'emerge 
sync'. I have a little script in my daily cron list that follows...

#! /bin/sh
# /etc/cron.daily/esync.automated
# ============================================================================
# Based on rkhunter script by Aaron Walker <ka0ttic@gentoo.org>
# Written by Glenn Enright on 14-Oct-2004
#
# Purpose
#  To provide a facility to regularly update the portage tree via cron so we
#  don't have to remember to do it manually, and send us a list of updates to
#  consider.
#
# Requires
#  portage to be properly installed. see 'man emerge' for details
#  esearch: do 'emerge esearch'
#
# CHANGELOG:
#  19-Oct-2004 - updated to use tool esearch. Improved speed and
#              feedback.
#  29-Sep-2005 - Reviewed code and did some tidying up. Changed file 
#              group to wheel to allow easier administration.
#

# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
#     ENABLEMENT OPTIONS

# set to no if you don't want to run this script
#
ENABLE=yes

# set to 'yes' if you wish the output to be mailed to you
#
SEND_EMAIL=yes

# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
#     OPERATIONAL COMMANDS

# main command
#	fixme: is nice needed with 2.6 kernel?
CMD="nice esync --nocolor --nospinner"

# NOTE: the rest of these options are only relevant
# if you set SEND_EMAIL to 'yes'
#
EMAIL_SUBJECT="${HOSTNAME}: 'esync' output"
EMAIL_RECIPIENT=root
EMAIL_CMD="| mail -s \"${EMAIL_SUBJECT}\" ${EMAIL_RECIPIENT}"

# ============================================================================

if [ "${ENABLE}" = "yes" ]; then

   if [ -x /usr/bin/emerge ]; then
      #-------------------------------------------------------
      # test to see if we want to send success/failure email
      #
      if [ "${SEND_EMAIL}" = "yes" ]; then
         CMD="${CMD} ${EMAIL_CMD}"
      else
         CMD="${CMD} &>/dev/null"
      fi
      # ------------------------------------------------------


      # ------------------------------------------------------
      # check to see if emerge is already running so
      # we dont interupt it. fail gracefully if it is
      #
      if [ ! "ps -ax | grep -c emerge" ]; then
         # NB: the following text is formated from the margin.
         MAIL_WARN_MESSAGE="echo -e ' ** WARNING ** : The program 'emerge' is 
currently running. Please wait for the next scheduled update or run esync 
manually.'"
         eval exec "${MAIL_WARN_MESSAGE} ${EMAIL_CMD}"
      else
         # actually do the thing
         eval exec "${CMD}"
      fi
      # -----------------------------------------------------

   fi
fi
# EOF

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