Am Dienstag 29 Mai 2007 16:01 schrieb Denis: > 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 sync/update on Wednesday and Sunday using eix-sync instead of emerge-sync. That way it shows me all changes on the tree together with a short description of the package. That way I find useful programs from time to time.
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