Re: [gentoo-user] Updating Gentoo

[m4110c]

Hi there,

I'm using Sakaki's Genup Script exclusively for quite a long time now.

No problems there and it updates everything (i.e. portage, overlays if
you have some installed, etc.)

Have a look at it:
https://github.com/sakaki-/genup

greetz
m4110c

Thus spoke Consus (consus@××××.net):
> Hi,
>
> For quite a bit I'm using this script to update my stable Gentoo system:
>
> 	$ cat $(which sysupdate)
> 	#!/bin/sh
> 	# Update the whole system
>
> 	set -e
>
> 	echo "==> Syncing Portage tree..."
> 	emerge --sync --quiet
>
> 	echo "==> Updating world..."
> 	emerge -auDU --with-bdeps=y @world
>
> 	echo "==> Removing old dependencies..."
> 	emerge -qc
>
> 	echo "==> Upgrading Perl packages (if needed)..."
> 	perl-cleaner --quiet --modules --ph-clean --delete-leftovers
>
> 	# TODO: Check errors
> 	cur_kver=$(readlink /usr/src/linux | sed 's/linux-//')
> 	new_kver=$(cd /usr/src && ls -1d linux-* | sort -Vr | head -1 | sed 's/linux-//')
>
> 	if [ "${cur_kver}" != "${new_kver}" ]; then
> 	        echo "==> Switching to kernel ${new_kver}..."
> 	        eselect kernel set linux-${new_kver}
> 	        if [ ! -e "/boot/vmlinuz-${new_kver}" ]; then
> 	                echo "==> Building kernel ${new_kver}..."
> 	                genkernel kernel
> 	        fi
> 	else
> 		# Rebuild initramfs if third-party modules were updated
> 	        if [ -n $(find /lib/modules/${cur_kver} \
> 	                        -newer /boot/initramfs-${cur_kver}.img) ]; then
> 	                dracut -f
> 	        fi
> 	fi
>
> Still, it won't catch some issues with Go or Haskell (as there are
> separate app-admin/go-updater and app-admin/haskell-updater ebuilds
> still around in the Tree) + there is a separate genkernel post-install
> script that cleans up old kernels during the kernel update.
>
> So, I was wondering -- maybe there is a
> fool-proof-one-command-that-do-it-all solution wondering somewhere?
>

-- 
m4110c

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