Updates

Drop this as /etc/cron.weekly/auto_update.sh:

auto_update.sh

#!/bin/bash

echo "Update started on $(date)" >> /var/log/autoupdate.log
emerge --sync >> /var/log/autoupdate.log
emerge -uv --deep --with-bdeps=y @world >> /var/log/autoupdate.log
date >> /var/log/autoupdate.log
echo "Update terminated on $(date)" >> /var/log/autoupdate.log

and make it executable:

chmod +x /etc/cron.weekly/auto_update.sh

Periodically you will want to run also:

emerge -cp

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