gentoo-update 0.1

Gentoo Linux updater

Gentoo Updater

gentoo-update is a tool that automates installing updates on Gentoo Linux. By default it only installs security updates from GLSA, but it also provides support to update @world.

This project originates from 2023 Google Summer of Code.

Usage

gentoo-update can be easily installed with pip (ebuild coming soon):

pip install gentoo_update

Here are some usage examples:

• Basic security update

gentoo-update

• Full system update with extra update parameters

gentoo-update --update-mode full --args color=n

• Full system update, show elogs and news

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

The detailed explanation of command flags can be found in --help.

Testing

Note Testing will be automated in the future, right now it's a bit hackish In gentoo_update/tests there is a Docker Compose file that can be used for testing. It builds containers based on stage3 tarballs and mounts the source code to /root/gentoo_update_source.

Example of a test:

cd tests
docker compose up gentoo1 -d
docker exec -it tests-gentoo1-1 /bin/bash

# inside container
cd /root/gentoo_update_source
python gentoo_update.python