about once ever 1-3 months, and it works
great for the first month, linux seems to be the opposite for me.
Glad it works for you..
Jeff
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From: Jason Stubbs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2003 6:01 AM
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Very interesting link. So, I would say that the capabilities are there
and just need to be communicated. Another person in this thread (Jason
Stubbs, I believe) mentioned something to the effect that packages like
glibc may break
On August 22, 2003 04:01 pm, Spider wrote:
And, Normally i never script updates. i don't think anyone in their sane
mind does that. our system as it is builds on manual updates and slow
migration, since we do api-changing / config changing updates...
Had we had a stable product with a single
On Saturday, 23 August 2003, at 11:42 pm, Terje Kvernes wrote:
I've been running ~x86 on three boxes for a couple of months now,
with the latest and greatest. things work surprisingly well, with
some tidbits here and there requiring testes...
I think you're saying it takes balls to run
Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Saturday, 23 August 2003, at 11:42 pm, Terje Kvernes wrote:
I've been running ~x86 on three boxes for a couple of months now,
with the latest and greatest. things work surprisingly well, with
some tidbits here and there requiring testes...
I
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Done it.. :) Since I don't do automatic updates, I let one of my 486's
get pretty far behind.. over 6-9 months as a matter of fact.. I did a
emerge sync, emerge -udp
On Saturday 23 August 2003 19:41, Lionel Laratte wrote:
I'm a Gentoo newbie and not a programmer or even all that experienced at
Linux. However, I am a technology manager for what it's worth. Anyway,
I've been following this thread and it occurs to me that doing an auto
emerge world might be
I've been following this thread and it occurs to me that doing an auto
emerge world might be better handled if there was some way to --pretend
this a print a log of what would be updated. It could even be a
menu-driven process allowing you to choose what to update. Does this
sound feasible?
.
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From: Heschi Kreinick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2003 7:07 AM
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] auto Emerge world
I've been following this thread and it occurs to me that doing an auto
emerge world
Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[ ... ]
(0) By all means use mostly stable packages, but let all update
recommendations age 2 weeks before performing the updates, then do
them singly and manually watching for anomalies and recommendations.
I've been running ~x86 on three boxes
Jeffrey Smelser wrote:
I am just trying to figure out how you guys just do emerge world's all the time without breaking anything.
Steps to a safe system.
Do allow a script to:
(1) Sync
(2) Do pretend updates
(3) Fetch updates
(4) Email root with pretend updates
(5) Log emerge activity
Do NOT
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 20:10:10 +0100
Dhruba Bandopadhyay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jeffrey Smelser wrote:
I am just trying to figure out how you guys just do emerge world's
all the time without breaking anything.
Steps to a safe system.
Do allow a script to:
(1) Sync
(2) Do pretend
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On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 10:22:55 -0500
Jeffrey Smelser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All,
How can anyone just write a script to emerge world all
the time and expect the system to just be ok??
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The Perl thing is a great example..
snip
Care to help me out?
Btw, I am not
On Saturday 23 August 2003 00:22, Jeffrey Smelser wrote:
OK, maybe its just me and I am a control freak.. (hell, my wife says I can
be.. :) ).. How can anyone just write a script to emerge world all the time
and expect the system to just be ok?? Maybe its because of my systems being
here so
On Saturday 23 August 2003 09:48, Jason Stubbs wrote:
P.S. My reference to intellect does not imply that the aforementioned
people are lacking in that area - there responses confirm that they are
not. My point is that you're average user migrating from RedHat or possibly
[ snips ]
On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 09:48:38 +0900
Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Saturday 23 August 2003 00:22, Jeffrey Smelser wrote:
OK, maybe its just me and I am a control freak.. (hell, my wife says
I can be.. :) ).. How can anyone just write a script to emerge world
all the
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On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 09:48:38 +0900
Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To sum up, if you want absolutely no breakage then Dhruba, Collins and
Spider have the right ideas - especially Collins with his wait two
weeks policy. Actually Spider broke his test box recently and did it
Done it.. :) Since I don't do automatic updates, I let one of my 486's
get pretty far behind.. over 6-9 months as a matter of fact.. I did a
emerge sync, emerge -udp system.. Did the gcc and glibc on their own to
make sure they worked, and just kept on working the list until it was
gone, then did
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