On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 01:32:05 -0500, Nicholas Hockey wrote: > > > During this my cron did "emerge --sync". > > > > I would recommend not having cron sync your tree for this very > > reason...
I have a cron script that syncs each morning, but it checks that emerge is not running first, to avoid just this sort of problem. > i agree, i think automagicly syncing the tree is a bad idea..... look at > it this way.... Do you have your windows machines set to automgicly > chack, and install updates ? syncing the tree is not installing anything, all it does is update the list of what is available. Any comparison with Windows is irrelevant anyway, Linux is not Windows. -- Neil Bothwick Daisy Duke shorts would never go out of fashion.
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