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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Ht5l6-0000tf-9m for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 29 May 2007 17:45:24 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4THi6hF022769; Tue, 29 May 2007 17:44:06 GMT Received: from smtp11.unit.tiscali.de (smtp11.unit.tiscali.de [213.205.33.47]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4THdooH018107 for ; Tue, 29 May 2007 17:39:50 GMT Received: from homer_gentoo64.phheimnetz (85.212.62.223) by smtp11.unit.tiscali.de (7.3.121) (authenticated as florian.philipp@tiscali.de) id 464F3918001898A1 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 29 May 2007 19:39:49 +0200 From: Florian Philipp 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 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3153666.FGHWtLJHS2"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200705291939.45312.f.philipp@addcom.de> X-Archives-Salt: a70fda59-9879-4aa5-a1bf-402227e0b7fe X-Archives-Hash: 9bca26d4e5779f9ea92c06eda3175fc4 --nextPart3153666.FGHWtLJHS2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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 descript= ion=20 of the package. That way I find useful programs from time to time. --nextPart3153666.FGHWtLJHS2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGXGVeCBEaaFO6I+ARAqVcAJwPbrFwl0PW6KASavsmuQ5EY7/jwQCfWC/h Byagm/eqByd9qDmANKQ1Pd4= =aoRw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3153666.FGHWtLJHS2-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list