Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Joseph <syscon780@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 19:38:52
Message-Id: 20140916193845.GA3365@syscon7
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo by Alan McKinnon
1 On 09/16/14 21:11, Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 >On 16/09/2014 20:05, Joseph wrote:
3 >> On 09/16/14 17:57, J. Roeleveld wrote:
4 >> [snip]
5 >>>>
6 >>>> solved all the problems.
7 >>>> I was at python:3.3 but for some reason or another (mostly my fault) I
8 >>>> did not unmerged python:3.1
9 >>>>
10 >>>> When it comes to upgrading be-weekly maybe but from my experience, when
11 >>>> I was doing it more often, occasionally, I ended up with a broken
12 >>>> system that was caused by new
13 >>>> packages.
14 >>>> I have 4-boxes at home and two boxes at a remote location. So the
15 >>>> boxes at home get upgraded first, I wait a week, just to make sure
16 >>>> every program works and
17 >>>> then I upgrade one box on a remote location, wait one week again and
18 >>>> upgrade the second box (the backup) in the remote location.
19 >>>> So doing it even every second week would be too often for this routine.
20 >>>>
21 >>>> The boxes are "rsync" to one local box.
22 >>>
23 >>> I am starting to wonder.
24 >>> How exactly do you upgrade the other machines?
25 >>> Copying the entire filesystem?
26 >>
27 >> I rsync one local server and all other machine are rsync to it.
28 >
29 >
30 >*what* do you rsync? Not whihc machine rsyncs to what, he's asking what
31 >files and directories exactly do you rsync?
32
33 I "rsync" only portage, nothing else on the main server.
34 Other boxes are arsyning to:
35 SYNC="rsync://10.0.0.103/gentoo-portage"
36 10.0.0.103 is running "rsyncd"
37
38 Upgrade is as usual.
39
40 --
41 Joseph