"What's new" Feature after rsyncing?

cvk

I'd like to see a summary of new and updated packages after rsyncing. Are there any means to achieve this, and if not: What is missing?

Regards,
Chris
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Braempje · l33t Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Posts: 748

cvk · Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2003 10:21 am Post subject:

That's not exactly what I meant - I rather thought of something like this:

Ben2040 · Guru Joined: 07 May 2003 Posts: 445 Location: UK

Hi

This would work well with a change to the emerge -u world command, in that first emerge did a sync if one had not been done for say, 24 hours. Then afterwards it displayed what was updated, and showed the list proposed by Chris. Kind of like every other emerge -u being normal, and then a seperate bit altogether if -u world was input.

Ben

cvk · Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2003 8:53 am Post subject:

I don't know wether or not the package data is stored anywhere, but if there was any file where all packages and versions are listed, it would be quite simple to compare the pre-rsync (='old') and post-rsync (='new') versions of that file.

What exactly is stored in /usr/portage/metadata/cache? If it's a complete directory of all ebuilds, it could be quite easy to write out the differences when rebuilding the portage cache.

Another idea would be to parse the rsync logfile and get the info from it... I think I'll take a look at the sourcecode.

Regards,
Chris
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compu-tom · Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2003 7:18 pm Post subject:

Take a look at this:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=54933

It works great for me

cvk · Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2003 7:49 am Post subject:

Ah great - thanks a lot.

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