Bug 130651 – make emerge play sound or do something else on unsuccesfull/succesfull exit

• Product: Portage Development
• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

[Description Fredric Johansson 2006-04-20 13:28:05 UTC]

When doing updates or newinstalling of packages it would be useful if emerge could  do anything optional on exit like playing a sound to make you aware that it failed emerging or it has finished

What do you think?

[Comment 1 Zac Medico 2006-04-20 13:41:22 UTC]

The exit status already provides the required functionality.  You can create a wrapper script if you want like this (save it as /usr/local/bin/emerge or something):

#!/usr/bin/env bash
/usr/lib/portage/bin/emerge && aplay success.wav || aplay failure.wav

[Comment 2 Zac Medico 2006-04-20 13:43:18 UTC]

Oops, forgot to pass the args to emerge...

#!/usr/bin/env bash
/usr/lib/portage/bin/emerge "$@" && aplay success.wav || aplay failure.wav

[Comment 3 Fredric Johansson 2006-04-20 13:57:12 UTC]

But that will make emerge always playing sounds on exit even when I make emerge -s foobar or emerge -pv world which might not be preferable all times

[Comment 4 Zac Medico 2006-04-20 16:05:52 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> But that will make emerge always playing sounds on exit even when I make emerge
> -s foobar or emerge -pv world which might not be preferable all times

Call the script something different (besides emerge) and only use it when you want sound.

[Comment 5 SpanKY 2006-04-20 16:27:59 UTC]

for your .bashrc:
semerge() { emerge "$@" && aplay success.wav || aplay failure.wav ; }