On Mon, 14 Jul 2014 18:52:57 +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote:

> 	I have a laptop churning away in the loungeroom doing an
> "emerge -NuD world" whilst I'm in my office, amongst other things
> composing this email. If my world update fails, I won't know until I
> look at the screen in the other room. Is there a way to get emerge to
> play a song depending upon the status of the emerge build?

Using portage hooks, either globally in /etc/portage/bashrc or per
package in /etc/portage/package.env. I have this in bashrc to warn me of
failures

register_die_hook ebuild_failed
ebuild_failed {
	do something foreboding
}

I actually have it send an alert to my phone with Posterous but you can
do whatever you want.

I also use package.env to alert me when particularly
time-consuming ebuilds, like LibreOffice and Chromium, have completed
successfully.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Profanity, The Language of Computer Professionals.