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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] System maintenance procedure?
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2012 10:10:43
Message-Id: 20121205120550.2bc346bf@khamul.example.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] System maintenance procedure? by Grant
1 On Tue, 4 Dec 2012 16:30:33 -0800
2 Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > My unattended daily system maintenance procedure is like this:
5 >
6 > layman -S
7 > emerge --sync
8 > emerge -pvDuN world
9 > emerge -pv --depclean
10 > eclean -p distfiles
11 > eclean -p packages
12 >
13 > And then attended like this:
14 >
15 >
16 > revdep-rebuild
17 > etc-update
18 > elogv
19 > emerge --depclean
20 > eclean distfiles
21 > eclean packages
22 >
23 > Am I missing any good stuff?
24 >
25 > - Grant
26
27
28 I'd tweak the order of your attended run:
29
30 emerge -DuN world
31 emerge @preserved-rebuild
32 emerge --depclean
33 revdep-rebuild
34
35
36 The logic is:
37
38 Rebuild busted packages that portage already knows about
39 (@preserved-rebuild), then get rid of oudated packages and finally
40 revdep-rebuild to fix anything that --depclean broke.
41
42 @preserved-rebuild is getting very good at what it does lately
43 (supported in all recent portage version including stable IIRC), as is
44 --depclean, so revdep-rebuild seldom finds anything to do these days.
45
46 --
47 Alan McKinnon
48 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com

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