amerge

amerge is a small update script I wrote for quickly updating the various Gentoo systems I have to maintain. It simply runs through the update process and checks for errors along the way.

Steps that amerge performs:

• Emerge Webrsync (emerge-webrsync)
• Layman Sync (layman -S)
• GCC upgrade
  • emerge --oneshot sys-devel/gcc
  • Update configuration (needs rework at some point)
  • emerge --oneshot --usepkg=n sys-devel/libtool
  • revdep-rebuild
• Portage update
• Kernel upgrade
  • emerge sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
  • Update configuration (only works for my specific syslinux install, needs more general rework)
  • Build kernel and install
• Emerge world update (emerge --tree --deep --newuse --update --with-bdeps=y --quiet-build @world)
• Emerge Reverse Rebuild (revdep-rebuild, might be un-needed)
• Emerge Depclean (emerge --depclean)
• Emerge Preserved Rebuild (emerge @preserved-rebuild)

A few future features:

• The ability to resume amerge if it caught an error from emerge, will skip sync and kernel updates
• Better kernel updating and configuration updating in general
• CMDARGS to skip GCC auto or Kernel auto