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 1Dy97h-0001zK-Ay for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:12:33 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6SEAkbl008066; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:10:46 GMT Received: from mxsf03.cluster1.charter.net (mxsf03.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.203]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6SEAjXT028304 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:10:45 GMT Received: from mxip17a.cluster1.charter.net (mxip17a.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.147]) by mxsf03.cluster1.charter.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j6SEBD0I005500 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 10:11:14 -0400 Received: from 66-168-56-228.dhcp.mdsn.wi.charter.com (HELO [192.168.169.100]) (66.168.56.228) by mxip17a.cluster1.charter.net with ESMTP; 28 Jul 2005 10:11:10 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: i="3.95,150,1120449600"; d="scan'208"; a="1351819269:sNHT33029656" Message-ID: <42E8E77D.9050308@blzj.com> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:11:09 -0500 From: Brett Johnson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050615) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] backups and world updates References: <1f81f7e005072806534ed43866@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1f81f7e005072806534ed43866@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a5231093-2999-4285-a789-a01fb462ce6a X-Archives-Hash: 1df5456ecba5580730f11ff5db45ec6d 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 I would suggest doing updates on a very regular basis. I saw a script in the gentoo forums once, where the script ran every night and updated the portage tree, downloaded and built all the new packages (but not install them) and emailed the list of packages to be installed. I have not gotten that ambitious yet, I just update my portage tree every night, and try run an "emerge -puvD world" once a week on all my systems to see what needs to be updated. If you stay on top of updates, they are much easier to handle. (I know this because I have neglected my laptop for about 6 months now, and now I have been stuck updating it for the past 2 days....) I have also found that using dispatch-conf with rcs and colordiff helps a lot too. http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Colorized_Config_Management shows how to colorize the diff for etc-update and dispatch.conf. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list