gentoo-update 0.1.11.post1

Gentoo Linux updater

Gentoo Updater

gentoo-update is a tool that automates updates on Gentoo Linux. By default it only installs security updates from GLSA, but it can also be used to update all packages on the system. i.e. @world.

This project originates from 2023 Google Summer of Code, more about it can be found in the blog post and Gentoo Forums.

TLDR: gentoo_update has 3 main modules - updater, parser and notifier. Updater runs the update script and create a log file. Parser reads the log file and composes a post-upgrade report which notifier then sends via email or IRC chat.

Features

• updater:
  • detect and patch security updates by default using glsa-check
  • update @world
  • insert additional flags to @world update
  • calculate disk usage before and after the update
  • do not start the update if available disk space is lower than a certain threshold
• parser:
  • Compose a report that informs if the update was successful or not
  • Add package info after successful info, like updated packages, new versions and USE flags
  • Detect different errors during an update
    • Blocked Packages
    • USE flag conflicts
    • Issues with Licenses
    • Network issues during an update
    • OOM during an update
  • Add disk usage before/after an update to the report
• notifier:
  • Send update report via IRC bot
  • Send full report via IRC bot if requested
  • Send update report via email using SendGrid
  • Send update report via email using local relay
• Other:
  • Add an ebuild to GURU repository
  • Create a CI/CD pipeline that will run gentoo_update on newly published stage3 Docker containers

Usage

gentoo-update is in GURU overlay, and can be installed using emerge:

emerge --ask app-admin/gentoo_update

Alternatively, it can be installed with pip in a virtual environment:

python -m venv gentoo_update
source gentoo_update/bin/activate
python -m pip install gentoo_update

The updater creates a subdirectory in Portage's default PORTAGE_LOGDIR located at /var/log/portage/gentoo-update. However, if this variable is set to a different value in make.conf, it will use the new location instead of the default.

Here are some usage examples:

• Basic security update

gentoo-update

• Full system update with extra update parameters

gentoo-update --update-mode full --args "color=y keep-going"

• Full system update, show elogs and news

gentoo-update --update-mode full --read-logs --read-news

• Reading last update report (currently only successful update report):

gentoo-update --report

• Send the last update report via IRC bot

export IRC_CHANNEL="#<irc_channel_name>"
export IRC_BOT_NICKNAME="<bot_name>"
export IRC_BOT_PASSWORD="<bot_password>"
gentoo-update --send-report irc

The detailed explanation of command flags can be found in --help.
Information on testing can be found in tests directory readme