On Tue, 4 Dec 2012 16:30:33 -0800 Grant <emailgr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My unattended daily system maintenance procedure is like this: > > layman -S > emerge --sync > emerge -pvDuN world > emerge -pv --depclean > eclean -p distfiles > eclean -p packages > > And then attended like this: > > > revdep-rebuild > etc-update > elogv > emerge --depclean > eclean distfiles > eclean packages > > Am I missing any good stuff? > > - Grant I'd tweak the order of your attended run: emerge -DuN world emerge @preserved-rebuild emerge --depclean revdep-rebuild The logic is: Rebuild busted packages that portage already knows about (@preserved-rebuild), then get rid of oudated packages and finally revdep-rebuild to fix anything that --depclean broke. @preserved-rebuild is getting very good at what it does lately (supported in all recent portage version including stable IIRC), as is --depclean, so revdep-rebuild seldom finds anything to do these days. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
