On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:46:42 -0500, Fabio wrote: > Well, when I started with Gentoo Linux almost a year ago, I emerged > --sync more than twice per week. I never experimented any damage or > error.
I have a system here that rsyncs with three other computers every hour and the disk is still good after several years, so the traffic from a paltry portage sync should do nothing but give the disk a little healthy exercise. > However, I do not advise people to do it so frequently just > because they will not find updated versions of their favorite packages > as often as I thought initially. Unless they run a ~ARCH system, when packages are updated far more frequently. > Here is a suggestion to have painless updates: > > emerge --sync > emerge --update --deep world I would add --ask the the latter command to further reduce the chance of pain. Replacing a week or two's worth of packages without even checking to see whether anything important is going to be touched is asking for trouble. -- Neil Bothwick Borg -- James Borg -- licensed to assimilate.
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