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On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:46:42 -0500, Fabio wrote: |
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> Well, when I started with Gentoo Linux almost a year ago, I emerged |
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> --sync more than twice per week. I never experimented any damage or |
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> error. |
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I have a system here that rsyncs with three other computers every hour |
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and the disk is still good after several years, so the traffic |
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from a paltry portage sync should do nothing but give the disk a |
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little healthy exercise. |
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> However, I do not advise people to do it so frequently just |
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> because they will not find updated versions of their favorite packages |
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> as often as I thought initially. |
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Unless they run a ~ARCH system, when packages are updated far more |
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frequently. |
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> Here is a suggestion to have painless updates: |
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> emerge --sync |
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> emerge --update --deep world |
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I would add --ask the the latter command to further reduce the chance of |
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pain. Replacing a week or two's worth of packages without even checking |
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to see whether anything important is going to be touched is asking for |
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trouble. |
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-- |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Borg -- James Borg -- licensed to assimilate. |
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