Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "Benedikt Böhm" <hollow@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: update commands / world file pollution Re: [gentoo-dev] Stable sys-devel/gcc USE flag changes WAS: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in eclass: ChangeLog toolchain.eclass
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 08:28:46
Message-Id: CAN-7s6a87f-Orkhrnmik+R2d=Ki=guvoqPpA5iW_pDiK9pJzhw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: update commands / world file pollution Re: [gentoo-dev] Stable sys-devel/gcc USE flag changes WAS: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in eclass: ChangeLog toolchain.eclass by Michael Weber
1 On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Michael Weber <xmw@g.o> wrote:
2
3 > I wonder if anybody uses unattended [backup+]emerge as cron job.
4 > I'm really temped to do so, but with users relying on these machines I'm
5 > always chicken-out.
6 >
7
8 i've refrained from doing unattended upgrades for a long time, but i'm
9 quite confident in updateworld these days and i usually test it on 2-3
10 machines and then let the other 50+ machines do it unattended and it has
11 been working fine so far ...
12
13 but - and that's quite important i guess - i only use my own clone of the
14 portage tree which i sync from time to time and i also keep different
15 versions stable, etc.

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