Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Peter Humphrey <prh@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] 2005.1-r1 media refresh
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 23:17:04
Message-Id: 43825524.3000309@gotadsl.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] 2005.1-r1 media refresh by Brett Johnson
1 Brett Johnson wrote:
2
3 > If you run emerge --sync and emerge -(p)vuD world on a regular basis,
4 > there is no need to get the media refresh. (Note, the (p) is to pretend,
5 > it's a good practice to check and see what is going to be up/down graded
6 > before actually performing any update)
7
8 Even better than -p is -a, which waits for a go-ahead from you. That way you
9 waste fewer CPU cycles.
10
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12 Rgds
13 Peter Humphrey
14 Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93.
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