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On Tue, 29 May 2007 10:01:39 -0400 |
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Denis <denis.che@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I'm curious to know your approach to keeping your Gentoo box current |
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> without it becoming a full-time job. I'm not talking about |
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> maintaining servers - just your "daily driver", so to say. |
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> How often do you sync with the current portage tree and compare it |
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> your versions in "world"? Should one do this once a week? Once in |
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> two weeks? |
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> How often to you update major components, like Xorg, kernel, and |
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> system tool chain? As soon as new things become available, or, say, |
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> once a month or so? |
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> The reason I ask is because I often don't have a lot of time to devote |
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> to system administration on a regular basis but do want to keep my box |
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> updated as much as possible. How do some of you non-developers |
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> balance system administration with your "day job"? |
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I have a daily cron job containing: |
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emerge --sync && \ |
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emerge -DuNf world && \ |
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glsa-check -t all 2>&1 | mail -s "GLSA report" root |
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In other words it syncs the tree, fetches all the new packages and then |
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checks for security vulnerabilities. If glsa-chack says "This system is |
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not affected by any of the listed GLSAs" I update when I have the time |
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(mostly in the weekends), otherwise I update ASAP. |
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Best regards, |
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Daniel |
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