From: Daniel Iliev <danny@ilievnet.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] drift: cron, emerge and mail
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 15:15:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45489DF3.1010302@ilievnet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061101120405.4c6e409b@krikkit.digimed.co.uk>
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:18:03 +0200, Daniel Iliev wrote:
>
>
>> Let me explain what I'm trying to do. I want to automate "emerge --sync
>> && emerge -DuNv world" with a cron job
>>
>
> I'm not sure automating emerge -u world is good idea. I have a cron task
> that does
>
> emerge --sync
> emerge -upvDN world | mail
> emerge -ufDN world
>
> Then I read the mail and decide on the updates before anything is merged.
>
> --SNIP--
>
>
Thank you very much, Neil!
I'm going to follow 100% of your advice. It never crossed my stupid mind
that I can automate only reporting and fetching the pending updates
without actually merging them. I also prefer updates to take place in my
presence.
--
Best regards,
Daniel
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-30 20:28 [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG Daniel Iliev
2006-10-31 8:59 ` Arnau Bria
2006-10-31 14:06 ` Daniel Iliev
2006-10-31 14:15 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2006-10-31 14:39 ` Daniel Iliev
2006-10-31 14:42 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-10-31 15:18 ` [gentoo-user] drift: cron, emerge and mail Daniel Iliev
2006-11-01 12:04 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-11-01 13:15 ` Daniel Iliev [this message]
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