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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How often -uD world?
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:27:57
Message-Id: 20090910092749.21de5e7a@krikkit.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How often -uD world? by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:58:37 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
2
3 > I do 'it' every morning. I am still tired, eix-sync, when I come back
4 > with my tea, I see the updates, emerge -auvD world, ready when the
5 > sugar is in the tea. Checking the list. Drinking some of the tea and
6 > contemplating the updates, then 'y'. when I am ready to rock, the
7 > updates are done.
8
9 Don't you have cron installed on your box? ;-)
10
11 I have a cron task run emerge --sync then mail me the output from
12 emerge -upvD --reinstall changed-use @world
13 then it runs
14 emerge -ufD --reinstall changed-use @world
15 to download the distfiles.
16
17 I still can't do anything useful before a cup of tea though...
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19 With a slower machine, I'd say frequent updates are more important,
20 because of the time it would take to work through two weeks' worth of
21 updates in i one go.
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24 --
25 Neil Bothwick
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27 If you can't be kind, be vague.

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Re: [gentoo-user] How often -uD world? Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>