Neil Bothwick wrote: >On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 09:42:10 -0600, Dale wrote: > > > >>Well, I didn't know it did this. I just type in emerge sync && emerge >>-efv world && emerge -upv world and walk away. I check it latter one >>when my modem is idle. >> >> > >Why -e? That will only fetch any source packages you have used and >deleted. Try emerge --sync && emerge -uDNf world && emerge -uavDN world. > >
Well, I'm paranoid OK. I'm always worried that something may go nuts and I may have to start from scratch OS wise. I have not seen this hapen yet but I'm still paranoid. I'm on a really slow dial-up and I like to have ALL the source files I would need to at least get a GUI and mozilla working. I would like to not have to spend a week downloading it all either. That is my poor reason for the -e. It gets everything, needed or not. Yes, I back it up to a second hard drive too. >Or put emerge --quiet --sync && emerge -uDNf world && emerge -upvDN world >in a cron job and you'll get the list of updates mailed to you. > > > >>When did this start anyway? >> >> > >--nospinner and --quiet have been there since Adam was a lad. > > > > I was talking about the progress thing. Is this the little thing that used to hang at 50%? Or is he talking about something else? I'm still sleepy so maybe my gray cells are not working yet. Wouldn't be the first time that happened either. Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. I have four rigs: 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. Named Smoker 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. Named Swifty 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 224MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. Named Pokey 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. Named Putput All run Gentoo Linux, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
