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"? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
I sync and do an emerge -DNpvu world daily. The results are e-mailed to me by vixie-cron. This allows me to read what new packages are available and also see the updates available. These logs are sent to my gmail address with a label and filter. If I am so inclined I can view the current one or past ones. I can then log into the box and run emerge -DNavu world and update, then run etc-update after that. The only thing that's been bugging me is restarting services after they've been updated (automagically, or near-auto). -- - Mark Shields
