From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dy8qN-0001kV-FO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:54:39 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6SDqriH031819; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:52:53 GMT Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.199]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6SDqqKW032133 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:52:53 GMT Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 67so424405wri for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 06:53:20 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=TRPguRl0epOkYz55+oC37AduyGWc504IL9B/bvp5yWYaoESf1BpwLvWP9IbE60EapIKbe421GJXsxw/xcW6onbOegHazt9FrufIkrgkq+9dv9K1cien/HikQFik4rw9bKtUklx4odf9Ill8QnxJSnfrkDvHmskAKQ0PgqkGWJzw= Received: by 10.54.42.62 with SMTP id p62mr812275wrp; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 06:53:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.130.17 with HTTP; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 06:53:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1f81f7e005072806534ed43866@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:53:20 -0400 From: Mark To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-amd64] backups and world updates Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j6SDqqKW032133 X-Archives-Salt: cf2e0a0c-2dd8-40e8-bab6-ed982a29cd08 X-Archives-Hash: 55c71c30c4d170898d0459f4f544a226 Thanks to everyone who helped me get my system back after a couple of world update snafus. Now of course I'm a little gun-shy about using options like emerge --update world. So what's my best bet to keep my system up to date, while protecting it from my own lack of understanding of updating config files? Here's what I'm intending to do so far: 1. Prior to running any large system update, back up /etc to another location 2. use dispatch-conf instead of etc-update Can anyone make any other suggestions? Which emerge options are best for full system updates? Thanks -- Mark [unwieldy legal disclaimer would go here - feel free to type your own] -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list