[SlugLUG] Debian As A Server

[cerise at armory.com]

On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 02:23:38PM -0700, Rohan Sheth wrote:
> This here appear thing sounds interesting.  I'll have to toy with it. 
> Watching shit scroll on my screen for a few hours while Gentoo plays
> update is somewhat boring...

That and the lack of background fetching has been a bug with appear for
a really, really, really long time.  Every version of portage has been
supposed to fix it any day now.  Really.

It's all written in sh, so it's _really_ easy to toy with.  Though almost no
one does.
 
> Night emerge -uD world sounds good...but does it log the updates
> somewhere?  I would probably want to know if something important was
> updated (new kernel, new apache, new php, etc.)

It does keep logs in /var/log/appear (per package build and a more general one
for each stage of the pipeline).  It doesn't log updates though.

That's OK.  In my scripts, I emerge -u -p -D world >>/root/logs/world.  8)

There is one other problem with it that was never really dealt with.  It
doesn't handle compound arguments, but the extra 2 keystrokes are generally
worth it to me.  8)

-Phil/CERisE