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On 22/02/12 05:08, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: |
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> On 21 February 2012 18:36, Felix Kuperjans<felix@××××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Hi Hilco, |
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>> answers and suggestions inline. |
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>> Am 22.02.2012 03:03, schrieb Hilco Wijbenga: |
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>>> Hi all, |
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>>> Every morning I start konsole, type "emerge --sync", and then go do |
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>>> other stuff. Some time later I look at the output and usually run |
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>>> "emerge ... world". I would like to automate that a bit more. |
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>> Just a suggestion: Do you know the porticron script? Combined with a |
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>> proper setup of ssmtp, it will sync you portage tree daily (in the |
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>> background) and send you an email with all updates, and important |
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>> security notes. |
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> Thanks, no I did not know about this script. |
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> I checked it out but I prefer to kick the sync off myself (syncing |
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> really slows down the computer). |
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It doesn't have to. You can put these in your make.conf: |
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PORTAGE_NICENESS=19 |
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PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND="sh -c \"schedtool -B \${PID}; ionice -c 3 -p |
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\${PID}\"" |
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Syncing and emerging should be transparent now. You won't even know |
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it's happening :-) |
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