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Mark wrote: |
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> Thanks to everyone who helped me get my system back after a couple of |
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> world update snafus. Now of course I'm a little gun-shy about using |
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> options like emerge --update world. So what's my best bet to keep my |
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> system up to date, while protecting it from my own lack of |
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> understanding of updating config files? |
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> Here's what I'm intending to do so far: |
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> 1. Prior to running any large system update, back up /etc to another location |
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> 2. use dispatch-conf instead of etc-update |
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> Can anyone make any other suggestions? Which emerge options are best |
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> for full system updates? Thanks |
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I would suggest doing updates on a very regular basis. I saw a script in |
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the gentoo forums once, where the script ran every night and updated the |
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portage tree, downloaded and built all the new packages (but not install |
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them) and emailed the list of packages to be installed. I have not |
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gotten that ambitious yet, I just update my portage tree every night, |
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and try run an "emerge -puvD world" once a week on all my systems to see |
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what needs to be updated. If you stay on top of updates, they are much |
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easier to handle. (I know this because I have neglected my laptop for |
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about 6 months now, and now I have been stuck updating it for the past 2 |
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days....) |
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I have also found that using dispatch-conf with rcs and colordiff helps |
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a lot too. http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Colorized_Config_Management shows |
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how to colorize the diff for etc-update and dispatch.conf. |
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