Re: [gentoo-user] Can emerge play a sound on either a successful/unsuccessful build?

[Andrew Lowe]

On 07/14/2014 07:46 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> 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,
	This sounds interesting. Care to share one of these hooks to show what
they actually look like?

	Regards,
		Andrew