From: Florian Philipp <f.philipp@addcom.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 19:39:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200705291939.45312.f.philipp@addcom.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d9a0a6da0705290701gad7635fka08a7b9ae103572f@mail.gmail.com>
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Am Dienstag 29 Mai 2007 16:01 schrieb Denis:
> I'm curious to know your approach to keeping your Gentoo box current
> without it becoming a full-time job. I'm not talking about
> maintaining servers - just your "daily driver", so to say.
>
> How often do you sync with the current portage tree and compare it
> your versions in "world"? Should one do this once a week? Once in
> two weeks?
>
> How often to you update major components, like Xorg, kernel, and
> system tool chain? As soon as new things become available, or, say,
> once a month or so?
>
> The reason I ask is because I often don't have a lot of time to devote
> to system administration on a regular basis but do want to keep my box
> updated as much as possible. How do some of you non-developers
> balance system administration with your "day job"?
I sync/update on Wednesday and Sunday using eix-sync instead of emerge-sync.
That way it shows me all changes on the tree together with a short description
of the package. That way I find useful programs from time to time.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-29 17:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-29 14:01 [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration? Denis
2007-05-29 14:29 ` Mark Shields
2007-05-29 14:32 ` Kevin O'Gorman
2007-05-29 14:40 ` Ryan Sims
2007-05-29 14:48 ` Albert Hopkins
2007-05-29 14:50 ` Daniel Iliev
2007-05-29 16:49 ` Roy Wright
2007-05-29 17:07 ` Ralf Stephan
2007-05-29 17:39 ` Florian Philipp [this message]
2007-05-29 19:07 ` Denis
2007-05-29 18:45 ` kashani
2007-05-30 0:16 ` Tim Allinghan
2007-05-30 1:19 ` Denis
2007-05-30 2:20 ` Ryan Sims
2007-05-30 2:53 ` Michael Sullivan
2007-05-30 3:05 ` Denis
2007-05-30 7:21 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-30 9:06 ` Eray Aslan
2007-05-30 3:20 ` Kevin O'Gorman
2007-05-30 10:03 ` Benno Schulenberg
2007-05-30 17:20 ` Denis
2007-05-30 20:57 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-30 3:49 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-05-30 4:37 ` Denis
2007-05-30 7:22 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-30 7:25 ` John covici
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