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Rob van Riel (kde) posted on Sat, 27 Mar 2010 09:38:01 +0100 as excerpted: |
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> Obviously yes, since the maintainers just put it in there. My apologies, |
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> I went out of sync with the overlay. Silly me...:-( |
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While I use different overlays (kde4 and x11), I do so using presumably |
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the same layman overlay management everyone does. As such, my sync |
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solution might be useful for others as well. |
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I created a short script "esyn", which does all my sync updates, main |
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gentoo tree and overlays both, rebuilds the portage cache, then updates my |
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esearch database (eupdatedb), and does an emerge --fetchonly --update |
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--deep @world, so all the sources are fetched. |
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What's nice is that I have it setup to do tasks in parallel where it can |
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do so, by backgrounding tasks and using bash's builtin wait command to |
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wait until all parallel tasks are finished before going to the next |
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stage. Thus, it syncs layman and the gentoo tree in parallel, for |
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instance, and does the sources fetch and the esearch index rebuild in |
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parallel as well, even grabbing the PORTAGE_NICENESS value out of |
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make.conf to nice the esearch index rebuild appropriately. =:^) |
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If all you need is to remember to sync portage and layman together, a |
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simple four-line script suffices: |
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#!/bin/bash |
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esync & # or emerge --sync & if you don't use esearch/esync |
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layman -S & |
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wait |
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Put that in /usr/local/sbin/esyn or whatever, call esyn instead of doing |
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your normal sync, and you won't have to worry about forgetting to sync |
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your overlays any more. =:^) |
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If you're interested in the somewhat more complex script I use, which |
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tests to see if I've mounted the partition with the tree on it before |
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syncing to the empty mountpoint on my rootfs if I've not, etc, ask and |
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I'll post it, along with an explanation. But that'd be a rather longer |
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and more detailed post, not worth the bother if nobody's interested anyway. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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