Re: [gentoo-user] Any big gotcha's when update from several (5) mnths

[Dale]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> Nahh, you miss my point. I don't want my attention to be anywhere near
> the machine except for the 1 minute it takes to run the fetch, and
> then assuming that worked, for the 1 minute it takes to start the
> build. I then come back an hour or two later, make sure everything got
> done and I spent no time of my own fixated on a Gentoo box. Most of
> these machines get updated during the day when family is away, but I'm
> busy working here at home and don't want to pay much attention just to
> get updates done. I know others are way more involved with every
> little thing happening on their machines but I'm not. I run stable
> with a few ~amd64 packages. I just want to box to get updated and work
> without a lot of my time involved. I've done my wife's machine, my
> father's machine and my mother's machine this way for years and it
> doesn't take much effort. (It just works... (@tm) On my own 3 Gentoo
> machines I am a little more involved, but typically I'm working on
> them while updating so that's not such a bog deal. My attention is
> there. That said, maybe someone who hasn't touched the machine for 5
> months shouldn't try to do a (mostly) unattended update... ;-) - Mark

Wouldn't be the first time I missed a point.  lol  It wouldn't be the 
last either.

I do mine in Konsole usually.  I start the emerge then run tail in 
another tab.  Once it stops printing, the download is finished BUT it 
has been compiling all that time too.  I then make sure it is compiling 
still.  I have had times where the fetch stopped because a compile puked 
on my keyboard.  Then I have to go attend to that.

Doing a update after that much time would require the chair to be 
occupied for sure.  Depending on what is installed, it could be quite a 
large bite.

Dale

:-)  :-)