The "Additional Information" section of this bug contains a quick, down and dirty shell script I wrote for automatic notification(s) of available upgrades. I use it on all my servers so I don't have to go manually checking for updates every day. I figure if anything, it would be best to include it into gentoolkit instead of trying to make it a new package. I'm sure there are some improvements that can be made to it (perhaps actually write something in python that will use the native portage code?), but it's what I'm using for now and seems to work fine. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Place script in cron.daily Actual Results: Automatic email notification of available updates Expected Results: Performs as expected (for me at least) #!/bin/sh # # emergenotify.sh - automatic notification of package # update availability # # Copyright (c) Stuart Bain <gun@gunandgiz.com> # This program is distributed under the terms of GPL version 2. # # Instructions: modify the settings variables to suit your environment. # Make sure you use a distinct username for each box you run this on. # The hostemail is only used as a "From" address for the email, so you # can use pretty much anything you want. Put your email address in the # adminemail variable and drop this script in /etc/cron.daily/. # # <Settings> hostname=YourServerName hostemail=devnull@yourdomain.com adminemail=yourname@yourdomain.com # </Settings> emerge sync > /dev/null ; emerge -Uup world | grep ebuild > /tmp/emergenotify.txt; test -s /tmp/emergenotify.txt && ( echo "From: $hostname <$hostemail>" > /tmp/emergenotifymail.txt; echo "To: $adminemail" >> /tmp/emergenotifymail.txt; echo "Subject: Possible Package Updates" >> /tmp/emergenotifymail.txt; echo "The following packages may have updates available for installation on $hostname:" >> /tmp/emergenotifymail.txt; cat /tmp/emergenotify.txt >> /tmp/emergenotifymail.txt; sendmail $adminemail < /tmp/emergenotifymail.txt; rm -f /tmp/emergenotifymail.txt ); rm /tmp/emergenotify.txt;
*** Bug 14642 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This isn't really portage's deal to notify imo... an external tool in the interim makes more sense, since jamming a hook in for this will not be fun with current portage.
Just a side note: newer versions of "eix-update" (from app-portage/eix) do provide such a feature.
(In reply to comment #3) > Just a side note: newer versions of "eix-update" (from app-portage/eix) do > provide such a feature. WORKSFORME Use esync ( part of eix ).
