From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GfG0Q-0002iS-LY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 01 Nov 2006 13:19:47 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id kA1DHiPl028113; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 13:17:44 GMT Received: from ilievnet.com ([84.21.204.200]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id kA1DFgpJ031233 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 13:15:43 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ilievnet.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A2C420C0BB for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 15:15:40 +0200 (EET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ilievnet.com Received: from ilievnet.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ilievnet.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id xB58suB0ADWG for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 15:15:36 +0200 (EET) Received: from [10.0.1.1] (mail.ilievnet.com [10.0.1.1]) by ilievnet.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39690200814 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 15:15:36 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <45489DF3.1010302@ilievnet.com> Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 15:15:31 +0200 From: Daniel Iliev User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20061010 SeaMonkey/1.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] drift: cron, emerge and mail References: <4546607D.6070802@ilievnet.com> <20061031095948.6fb62463@lx-arnau.pic.es> <45475849.9090205@ilievnet.com> <20061031144233.72ad43c8@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <4547692B.9050804@ilievnet.com> <20061101120405.4c6e409b@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20061101120405.4c6e409b@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 5eff5231-6c45-4b6b-bd5a-fa9f11c00207 X-Archives-Hash: 74e938409182a213cb4da014abc84151 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list