[Solved] How to find my last emerge --sync date ?

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Chili0_ · Post by **Chili0_** » Mon Apr 08, 2019 8:08 am

How to find my last emerge --sync date ?
Thx.

Post by **fedeliallalinea** » Mon Apr 08, 2019 8:13 am

# cat /usr/portage/metadata/timestamp.chk

Post by **NeddySeagoon** » Mon Apr 08, 2019 8:16 am

Chili0_
Look in /usr/portage/metadata/timestamp.chk

What you really need is the date/time of the repository, which is not the same thing. Look at the top of

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emerge --info

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$ emerge --info
Portage 2.3.62 (python 3.6.8-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.0/no-multilib, gcc-8.3.0, glibc-2.28-r5, 5.0.2-gentoo x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-5.0.2-gentoo-x86_64-AMD_Phenom-tm-_II_X6_1090T_Processor-with-gentoo-2.6
KiB Mem:    16399056 total,  14142764 free
KiB Swap:    2088432 total,   2088432 free
Timestamp of repository gentoo: Sat, 30 Mar 2019 02:15:01 +0000
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Chili0_ · Post by **Chili0_** » Mon Apr 08, 2019 8:18 am

saturnalia0 · Post by **saturnalia0** » Tue Jan 10, 2023 7:42 pm

Coming here from Google's first result for "emerge last sync".

Seems like the file location has been moved?

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$ locate timestamp.chk
/var/db/repos/gentoo/metadata/timestamp.chk
/var/db/repos/gentoo/metadata/dtd/timestamp.chk
/var/db/repos/gentoo/metadata/glsa/timestamp.chk
/var/db/repos/gentoo/metadata/news/timestamp.chk
/var/db/repos/gentoo/metadata/xml-schema/timestamp.chk

mike155 · Post by **mike155** » Tue Jan 10, 2023 7:50 pm

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# qlop -s
2023-01-01T19:25:43 *** gentoo
2023-01-05T20:42:34 *** gentoo
2023-01-06T17:13:52 *** gentoo
2023-01-08T02:51:18 *** gentoo

Post by Hu » Tue Jan 10, 2023 7:53 pm

Not exactly. It was, and is, $PORTDIR/metadata/timestamp.chk. The value of $PORTDIR was historically /usr/portage, but more recent systems use /var/db/repos/gentoo.

grknight · Post by **grknight** » Tue Jan 10, 2023 8:07 pm

Hu wrote:Not exactly. It was, and is, $PORTDIR/metadata/timestamp.chk. The value of $PORTDIR was historically /usr/portage, but more recent systems use /var/db/repos/gentoo.

Of course this can be customized per install, the definitive location will be $(portageq get_repo_path / gentoo)/metadata/timestamp.chk (and this works for old and new of any date).

This is the repository's date not necessarily when the user did the sync (as they can be different due to outdated mirrors).

psycho · Post by **psycho** » Tue Jan 10, 2023 10:35 pm

If you've got e.g.

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HISTTIMEFORMAT="%F %T "

in your (root's) .bashrc, you can just look in your history (history | grep "emerge --sync" or whatever) for the exact time you ran it. Timestamps can be quite handy in BASH history.

Kalin · Post by **Kalin** » Wed Dec 10, 2025 2:52 pm

It was already explained why (a few years ago), and the the one-liner is:

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emerge --info |grep ^Timestamp

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$ emerge --info |grep ^Timestamp
Timestamp of repository gentoo: Wed, 10 Dec 2025 14:15:00 +0000