gentoo-update 0.1.8

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.

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 y --read-news y

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

gentoo-update --report

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