Emerge Automation with email notification, makes gentoo server farms happy! Just add to the cron task level of your choice. I got tired of updating multiple machines at once. If you have a local rsync server (which there's no reason why you shouldn't ; ] ) the script will make sure it runs a proper sync off the defined SYNC in /etc/make.conf . If it's not defined use the faster delta-webrsync.

Requires: net-mail/mailx && sys-apps/emerge-delta-webrsync && (sys-apps/mktemp || >=sys-apps/coreutils-6.10)

/etc/cron.*/emerge-update-notification.sh

#!/bin/bash # Auto emerge update notification - v0.3 # # This script was developed to help automate Gentoo server farms. Released under GNU GPL V2 # # Requires: net-mail/mailx && sys-apps/emerge-delta-webrsync && (sys-apps/mktemp || >=sys-apps/coreutils-6.10) # # Questions/Concerns/Bugs: email c4blem0nkey AT gmail.com . /etc/conf.d/emerge-update-notification hostname=`hostname` syncResponse=`mktemp` if [ ${1}='' ]; then # Lets see if we have any custom rsync servers defined and use them instead... if [ `grep "SYNC=" /etc/make.conf` ]; then emerge --sync > ${syncResponse} else # Nope, roll'em them updates a faster way emerge-delta-webrsync > ${syncResponse} fi; fi; [ `cat ${syncResponse} | grep "rsync error"` ] && rsyncError=1; emerge -pv portage > /dev/null && portageUpdate=1; syncTime=`cat /usr/portage/metadata/timestamp` if [ -n $rsyncError ]; then # Check to see if everything is already up-to-date emergeTotal=`emerge -pv world | tail -1` packageCount=`echo ${emergeTotal} | awk '{print $2}'` # if it is, bail out happy [ ${packageCount} -lt 1 ] && exit 0; #Otherwise...lets roll emergeResponse=`mktemp` emerge -p world > ${emergeResponse} # Check to see if we have any problems to report [ `grep "MASKED PACKAGES" ${emergeResponse}` ] && packageMaskedError=1; [ `grep "circular dependencies" ${emergeResponse}` ] && packageCircDepError=1; [ `grep "^\[blocks" ${emergeResponse}` ] && blockingPackages=1; #blockers? blockingDetails=`mktemp` [ ! -n $blockingPackages ] && grep "^\[blocks " ${emergeResponse} > ${blockingDetails} #packages? packageDetails=`mktemp` [ ${packageCount} -gt 0 ] && grep "^\[ebuild" ${emergeResponse} > ${packageDetails} #mktemp the email container messageBody=`mktemp` echo -e "Last portage sync at: ${syncTime}" >> ${messageBody} #everything is kosher lets build the message if [ -n $packagesUpToDate ] && [ -n $packageMaskedError ] && [ -n $packageCircDepError ]; then #No errors seen on the emerge -p subject="[emerge] ${hostname}: ${packageCount}" if [ ${packageCount} -gt 1 ]; then subject="${subject} packages need" else subject="${subject} package needs " fi; subject="${subject} updating" echo -e "${emergeTotal}\n" >> ${messageBody} cat ${packageDetails} >> ${messageBody} if [ ! -n ${blockingPackages}]; then echo -e "Detected Issues:" >> ${messageBody} cat blockingDetails >> ${messageBody} fi; else if [ -n $packagesUpToDate ] && [ -n $packageMaskedError ]; then #looks like there was a circular dependency. oops! subject="[emerge] ${hostname}: circular dependency detected" echo "Oops, there looks to be a circular dependency in the next update." >> ${messageBody} fi; if [ -n $packagesUpToDate ] && [ -n $packageCircDepError ]; then #looks like a package to be updated is masked for some reason subject="[emerge] ${hostname}: required package masked" echo "Looks like for some reason a package to be updated has been masked, to determine why this is you may wish to check /etc/portage/package.mask for comments." >> ${messageBody} fi; echo -e "The emerge command reported the following:\n" >> ${messageBody} cat ${emergeResponse} >> ${messageBody} fi; else #There was a problem rsyncing...fire off an email reporting a failure subject="[emerge] ${hostname}: failed to sync portage" echo -e "The last portage sync failed to complete, and returned the following messages:\n" >> ${messageBody} echo ${syncResponse} >> ${messageBody} fi; mail -s "${subject}" ${toAddress} < ${messageBody} for i in ${syncResponse} ${emergeResponse} ${blockingDetails} ${packageDetails} ${messageBody}; do rm ${i}; done

/etc/conf.d/emerge-update-notification

# Auto emerge update notification settings # # This script was developed to help automate Gentoo server farms. Released under GNU GPL V2 # # toAddress: This variable assigns where you would like update notifications to arrive. # # Required, no defaults toAddress="replace-this-email-address@here.com"