Re: [gentoo-user] upgrade all [SOLVED]

[Daniel D Jones <ddjones@riddlemaster.org>]

On Wednesday 25 February 2009 08:49:37 Zhu Sha Zang wrote:
> Stroller escreveu:
> > On 25 Feb 2009, at 12:50, Zhu Sha Zang wrote:
> >> ... I know that i can do a emerge -uDN world and upgrade all
> >> programs that in the "world enviroment". But some time ago i see
> >> in this list a way to check and upgrade all programs installed in
> >> system.
> >>
> >> Someone remember or know how i can do it?
> >
> > Could it have been this thread:
> > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/202559
> >
> > I think there were some warnings there against it, but IIRC I
> > didn't find them terribly specific or compelling, so 'emerge -1
> > `eix -Iu --only-names`' works here. I would think your need for
> > this would be rare, however, and you should be sure to run
> > revdep-rebuild afterwards.
> >
> > Stroller.
>
> Thakns Stroller, i'm using something like this
>
> eix -u > upgrade.txt
>
> vi upgrade.txt (editing lines that useless and adding "emerge -vauDN")
>
> sh upgrade.txt.
>
> SOLVED at all.
>
> Thanks again.

Try this if you want to save yourself a lot of editing:

eix -u | awk '/^\[/{print "emerge -vauDN ", $2}'

If want to redirect to an executable file, then use this:

eix -u | awk 'BEGIN{print "# /usr/bin/bash\n"} /^\[/{print "emerge -vauDN ", 
$2}'

(Above should be all one line.)