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Am Dienstag 29 Mai 2007 16:01 schrieb Denis: |
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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 sync/update on Wednesday and Sunday using eix-sync instead of emerge-sync. |
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That way it shows me all changes on the tree together with a short description |
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of the package. That way I find useful programs from time to time. |
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