On 5/29/07, Denis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm curious to know your approach to keeping your Gentoo box current
without it becoming a full-time job. I'm not talking about
maintaining servers - just your "daily driver", so to say.
How often do you sync with the current portage tree and compare it
your versions in "world"? Should one do this once a week? Once in
two weeks?
How often to you update major components, like Xorg, kernel, and
system tool chain? As soon as new things become available, or, say,
once a month or so?
The reason I ask is because I often don't have a lot of time to devote
to system administration on a regular basis but do want to keep my box
updated as much as possible. How do some of you non-developers
balance system administration with your "day job"?
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I have a cron job that does emerge --sync and another that does
revdep-rebuild -p. These email me their results.
At least once a week, I manually do
emerge -aDvu world
Unless there's something particularly weird, I say "yes" when
it asks if I want the emerge.
I have the PORTAGE_NICENESS set to 15 in /etc/make.conf,
and since there are 4 hyperthreads on this machine, I also have
MAKEOPTS=-j4. Together, these leave enough compute power
that I never really notice the load. Besides, it's easy to start the
emerge at the end of the day.
At the end of the emerge, I run etc-update. Each change I make
in a config file is tagged with a string that is easy to recognize.
If I have never modified a config file in the past, I accept all
changes -- I reason that if what the devs did the first time was
good enough, that is probably still true. There are only about
a dozen packages that I made any changes to, so it's fairly easy
to keep up with things.
Most weeks I spend less than an hour on administration.
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