On Tue, 29 May 2007 10:01:39 -0400 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"?
I have a daily cron job containing: === emerge --sync && \ emerge -DuNf world && \ glsa-check -t all 2>&1 | mail -s "GLSA report" root === In other words it syncs the tree, fetches all the new packages and then checks for security vulnerabilities. If glsa-chack says "This system is not affected by any of the listed GLSAs" I update when I have the time (mostly in the weekends), otherwise I update ASAP. -- Best regards, Daniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
