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On Tuesday 01 February 2011 20:43:43 BRM wrote: |
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> And you're doing a typically manual process for updating all the |
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> systems - update your server first, then any rsync clients. Fine & |
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> dandy if that is your process - but it's not mine. I may update my |
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> laptop twice as often as the other two, especially if I want to play |
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> with some software or try something out, or fix a bug, or get a |
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> later version of KDE. The server gets updated may be once a month, |
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> while the laptop is either once a month or at whim when I want |
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> something that just came out. |
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> It's not harder to do it this way, just a different method. The |
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> original rsync script worked perfectly fine; the broken update I did |
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> when I lost it is what started this whole thread. |
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What's wrong with keeping your server's portage cache up to date? You |
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don't have to update the server from it if you don't want to, but if the |
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cache is out of date it isn't being much of a server. |
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I recommend Occam's Razor. |
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Rgds |
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Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23. |
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