On Thursday 12 June 2003 02:06 pm, brett holcomb wrote:
> I hesitate to do the updates automatically. I like to
> look at what it wants to update and then decide whether to
> do it all (emerge -u --deep world/system -p) or whether or
> not I will select individual ones.
>
> On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 12:46:29 -0000 (UTC)
>
> "Tracy McKibben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Just curious to hear how others are doing scheduled
> >updates. I currently
> >am doing an "emerge -U world" each night on my
> >workstations, "emerge -Up
> >world" on my server with the results emailed to me. Is
> >this pretty much
> >what others are doing? I wondered about adding --deep,
> >but that one kind
> >of scares me.
> >
> >Suggestions, helpful advice?
> >
> >
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I have to go with Brett here. I do emerge sync via a cron job but I
definately want to see what I'm about to change on my primary box. I
did emerge -Up world yesterday and saw an update for Open Office among
the reccommended updates. Seeing that reminded me that EVERY time I've
updated OO, it's been borked. (Anybody else seeing that?).
I see no reason to update applications just for the sake of having the
latest version. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. If an update has a
security fix or a new feature that I think I might want I'll upgrade.
Otherwise, I feel no great need to have the latest. Also, I seem to
have a better feel for what config files I'll be having to mess with
when I'm done.
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