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On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 05:08:06PM +0000, David W Noon wrote: |
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> On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:00:02 +0100, Willie Wong wrote about Re: |
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> [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?: |
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> >On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 02:15:08PM +0000, David W Noon wrote: |
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> >> You run your emerge --sync jobs by hand?!!! |
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> >Why is that surprising? |
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> Because emerge jobs produce copious amounts of output that is difficult |
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> to read as it scrolls past. I much prefer the cron daemon or at daemon |
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> to send me the output as email, so I can scroll backwards and forwards |
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> through it at my leisure. |
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What output do you actually read from syncs? For builds, is it really |
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wise to do all updates unattended? Also, for builds, there is such a |
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thing as elogs (which allows you to save all messages to |
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/var/log/portage for ease of reading at your leisure. You can even |
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configure it to select what types of messages are saved): I neither |
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need nor want to scroll through pages and pages of mostly useless |
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output only to find the ewarn messages. |
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I'm sure you have a good reason for wanting to do things your way, and |
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I do not claim mine is better. I am just surprised that you sounded |
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surprised to find out some people don't do things your way. |
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> >My laptop does not have an always-on internet |
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> >connection, nevermind it sits silently and off for most of the day. I |
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> >"sync by hand" when I have time, roughly twice each week. |
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> Well, when your laptop is powered off the cron daemon won't run the |
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> emerge jobs, so that's really a non-issue. |
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Actually, the cron daemon won't run because I don't have a cron daemon |
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installed on the laptop. And I don't have a cron daemon because having |
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periodic jobs only make sense if the computer is likely to be on when |
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cron is triggered. |
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Cheers, |
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Willie W. Wong wwong@××××××××××××××.edu |
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Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire |
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et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton |