When did I last emerge --sync ?? [SOLVED]

[smolloy]

Is there an easy way to find out when I last sync'ed with the gentoo mirrors?? I've just set up a cron job to emerge --sync, and I'd like to be sure that it actually worked.

Thanks.

[d38dm8nw81k1ng]

this isn't exactly what you wanted but you can ask someone who has already done an emerge sync to check a couple of packages that have been updated since the previous sync against yours.

[dylunio]

You could check if /var/tmp/portage has been modified since last timeyou synced.

[Cabhan]

All emerge calls are logged in /var/log/emerge.log. You might check through there for your last sync.

[smolloy]

All emerge calls are logged in /var/log/emerge.log. You might check through there for your last sync.

Thanks for the help guys. This is exactly the file I needed.

[experiment1598]

#!/bin/bash
cat /var/log/emerge.log|head -$(cat /var/log/emerge.log|grep -n "Sync completed"|cut -d ":" -f1)|grep -e "Started emerge"|tail -1|cut -d " " -f5-8

Gives you Complete Date & Time of last Portage-Tree sync

Regards,
Matthias

[apoorv_khurasia]

#!/bin/bash
cat /var/log/emerge.log|head -$(cat /var/log/emerge.log|grep -n "Sync completed"|cut -d ":" -f1)|grep -e "Started emerge"|tail -1|cut -d " " -f5-8

Gives you Complete Date & Time of last Portage-Tree sync

Regards,
Matthias

Hi. I tried your script but I get this error....

head: cannot open `2970' for reading: No such file or directory
head: cannot open `3540' for reading: No such file or directory
head: cannot open `3770' for reading: No such file or directory
head: cannot open `3918' for reading: No such file or directory
head: cannot open `4011' for reading: No such file or directory
head: cannot open `4835' for reading: No such file or directory
head: cannot open `5230' for reading: No such file or directory
head: cannot open `5368' for reading: No such file or directory
head: cannot open `5639' for reading: No such file or directory
head: cannot open `7411' for reading: No such file or directory

i have some idea of what is going wrong but i am unable to find a solution
See, 2970 ..........etc. are the line numbers where "sync completed" appears. Some how when piped with cat, head does not see them as line numbers but as a file argument. I tried this (change is shown in red)

cat /var/log/emerge.log|head --lines=[-]$(cat /var/log/emerge.log|grep -n "Sync completed"|cut -d ":" -f1)|grep -e "Started emerge"|tail -1|cut -d " " -f5-8

But then it says

head: [-]5: invalid number of lines

Do you have any idea why this is happening?
Thanks

[experiment1598]

I tried your Solution and it seems that the "[-]" is the source of the problem.

cat /var/log/emerge.log|head --lines=$(cat /var/log/emerge.log|grep -n "Sync completed"|cut -d ":" -f1)|grep -e "Started emerge"|tail --lines=1|cut -d " " -f5-8

The above solution worked for me.

Matthias

[murmuria]

# cat /usr/portage/metadata/timestamp.chk
Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:30:08 +0000

The right way to do just what is asked, find when you last sync'ed.