Bug 31386 – esearch cron script

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2003-10-17 18:49:52 UTC]

I wrote this cron script for eupdatedb. Might add it to the package and install to /usr/share/doc/${PF}/eupdatedb.cron.

[Comment 1 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2003-10-17 18:50:41 UTC]

Created attachment 19380 [details]
cron script

[Comment 2 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2003-10-17 18:52:45 UTC]

Created attachment 19381 [details, diff]
Patch to esearch-0.4.2.ebuild

[Comment 3 David Peter 2003-10-18 05:05:54 UTC]

Hi,

I think it makes no sense to run eupdatedb hourly/daily/weekly/..
Instead you should run it after you've updated your portage tree
with "emerge sync".

Maybe you find the following script, I wrote useful:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=94102

It calls emerge sync and eupdatedb automatically.

David

[Comment 4 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) 2003-10-18 06:26:04 UTC]

Thanks Donnie, added it in 0.4.2-r1. Btw, that script looks very generic,
could be installed by baselayout as a template.

[Comment 5 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2003-10-18 18:22:19 UTC]

David,
Why not install esync in the same place, or install it by default in /usr/sbin
or something along with esearch?