Category Archives: Automated System Updater

Project Goals Main goal of the project was to write an app that will automatically handle updates on Gentoo Linux systems and send notifications with update summaries. More specifically, I wanted to: Simplify the update process for beginners, offering a … Continue reading →

Introduction This article will go through the basic usage of gentoo_update CLI tool and the mobile app. But before that, here is a demo of this project: gentoo_update CLI App Installation gentoo_update is available in GURU overlay and in PyPI. Generally, installing the … Continue reading →

This article is a summary of all the changes made on Automated Gentoo System Updater project during weeks 11 and 12 of GSoC. Project is hosted on GitHub ( gentoo_update and mobile app). Progress on Weeks 11 and 12 During last 2 weeks I’ve completed app UI … Continue reading →

This article is a summary of all the changes made on Automated Gentoo System Updater project during weeks 9 and 10 of GSoC. Project is hosted on GitHub (gentoo_update and mobile app). Progress on Weeks 9 and 10 I have finalized app architecture, here are the … Continue reading →

This article is a summary of all the changes made on Automated Gentoo System Updater project during week 8 of GSoC. Project is hosted on GitHub. Progress on Weeks 8 Currently, the updater supports two methods of notifications: IRC bot and email. The … Continue reading →

Progress on Weeks 6 + 7 These 2 weeks were spent on the parser and the reporter. During this time, I’ve added many features to it, but there are still much more things left to be done. Due to limited … Continue reading →

Progress on Week 5 Week started off by receiving some feedback from the community in the forums. Here are some nice ideas that community have suggested to implement: Fallback to the latest version of the package if an error is encountered … Continue reading →

This article is a summary of all the changes made on Automated Gentoo System Updater project during week 4 of GSoC. Project is hosted on Github. Progress on Week 4 Started the week by discovering that my updates to ebuild were not accepted in the GURU overlay. … Continue reading →

Introduction gentoo_update (Github repo) is a tool that automatically updates Gentoo Linux. Motivation Gentoo Linux gives users maximum flexibility and control over the system. A great example of this is the OS upgrade process. Users have a large selection of … Continue reading →

This article is a summary of all the changes made on Automated Gentoo System Updater project during week 3 of GSoC’23. Project is hosted on Github. Progress on Week 3 Project finally received some Github stars! It also has received … Continue reading →