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 1DyA6d-00015j-Dr for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 15:15:31 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6SFCnpF007695; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 15:12:49 GMT Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.200]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6SFCm8W017039 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 15:12:49 GMT Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i16so406800wra for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 08:13:18 -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:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=MBZvg6ExFR7ZGVv8nkcmd8gvsbmjw6s4hL9iCWD5qv1+olx0uYPpJTdPgWDAo4R7rbd3NW0gV+kUMyfIe9SyMvH4V0HGVJH9/MMl6IwCJciHFwY5O7UPXDcIEi390PGJdsF9ZIUn8VrY7lN1JAddUQfaFBj/OS4sbaZ/KyHJ9h8= Received: by 10.54.45.14 with SMTP id s14mr838883wrs; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 08:13:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.130.17 with HTTP; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 08:13:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1f81f7e005072808137d93cae8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 11:13:18 -0400 From: Mark To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] backups and world updates In-Reply-To: <42E8EA25.2030302@cisco.com> 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 References: <1f81f7e005072806534ed43866@mail.gmail.com> <42E8EA25.2030302@cisco.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j6SFCm8W017039 X-Archives-Salt: eb10484b-fd0b-447b-bfde-c4efb943c778 X-Archives-Hash: bc17068a853acbb061d989915baab244 Hi Roy, I wasn't able to find it. Can you post your version? This sounds like the approach I'd like to take. Thanks! On 7/28/05, Roy Wright wrote: > Howdy, > > What I do is run a nightly script that: > * cleans up tmp files > * runs revdep-rebuild > * runs emerge --sync > * runs eupdatedb > * runs update-eix > * runs a pretend emerge -uDNvp world > * runs a fetchonly emerge -uDNq --fetchonly world > * greps the ebuilds for einfo, ewarn, and eerror lines > * runs glsa-check > The output of everything is then mailed to me. > I originally got the script from the gentoo-users list > but didn't save the link (maybe scan the archives for > portage.cron or if you want I can post what I have). > > Then I review the email and decide when to update. > > A red flag is if the einfo mentions revdep-rebuild. > In that case I emerge that package by name allowing > dependencies, then do the revdep-rebuild, then > the emerge world. > > Most of the time, I just open an konsole and do the > update. Occasionally I'll postpone if the update looks > really large or time consuming. For major gui components > like KDE or xorg, I'll exit KDE and emerge from the > command line over the weekend (ok, probably overly > cautious, but I was burned once). > > Occasionally I'll get a blocking condition. I really think > twice now before just unblocking via package.keywords. > I've found that waiting a day or two might result in > portage handling the unblocking. > > HTH, > Roy > > Mark wrote: > > >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 > > > > > -- > gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- Mark [unwieldy legal disclaimer would go here - feel free to type your own] -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list