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On Tuesday 29 May 2007 09:01:39 Denis wrote: |
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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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In server-land I would perform all upgrades on a test system before rolling to |
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production anyway. |
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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"? |
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I sync, update system and world, and then revdep-rebuild daily. I run ~amd64. |
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Unfortunately, this can get you into some sticky situations: my pdns still |
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doesn't like my new postgres. |
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If you are running stable, it's much less likely to result in bad situations, |
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and you should be able to put off upgrades much longer. A daily (or weekly) |
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sync is still a good idea IMHO; having an up-to-date tree is rarely a |
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disadvantage. |
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> How often to you update major components, like Xorg, kernel, and |
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> system tool chain? |
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I live on the edge and treat them like any other package. Well, 'cept the |
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kernel, which I only actually compile and reboot into occasionally. If you |
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don't have time to wrestle with issues, but off the upgrade. Nothing sucks |
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worse than not having the time to fix X, but needing it to work/play and |
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having to broken. |
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