async-emerge. building binary packages with dependencies.

[alexdu]

Hello.

I wrote a 'yet another' set of scripts for easier Gentoo update.

This is bash scripts, using AUFS for building binary packages with all needed dependencies. Also it does a lot of typical system care operations, like 'depclean', 'revdep'/'@preserved' and others.

This is experimental. But for me it works nice.

It was called 'async-emerge'. Async means it includes two parts: one part builds binary packages for update (by cron) and another part install these binaries to your Gentoo system. And those parts are really asynchronous, so 'binary updates' could be "summarized" and stored on disk unless you decided it's a time to update the system. Async doesn't mean you lost 'rolling updates' nature of Gentoo. No, your Gentoo will still a continuously updated linux.

This is the project site: http://code.google.com/p/async-emerge/. Please post your bugs reports there.

I'll be glad to read any feedbacks.

Alex.

PS
It saves about 90% of human (Gentoo's admin) time. Machines overhead is about 15-20% (I didn't measure it, it's just an estimation).

[Bones McCracker]

Nice work. Thank you for sharing it.

Something like this could be very useful, particularly with a group of similar machines sharing a binary repository.
_________________

[alexdu]