From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mla0b-00049b-Vk for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:07:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 475B6E082D; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:07:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp-relay2.uniserve.ca (smtp-relay2h.uniserve.ca [216.113.194.206]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30CB7E082D for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:07:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ip-175.60.99.216.dsl-cust.ca.inter.net ([216.99.60.175] helo=ca.inter.net) by smtp-relay2.uniserve.ca with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Mla0Y-0008Iu-DW for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:07:39 -0700 Received: by ca.inter.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:07:37 -0400 Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 23:07:37 -0400 From: Philip Webb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How often -uD world? Message-ID: <20090910030737.GA4848@ca.inter.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Sender-Info: purslow@ca.inter.net X-Scanner: OK. Scanned. X-Uniserve-Spam-Score: 0.1 1 (/) X-Uniserve-Spam-Report: Content analysis details: (0.1 points) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.1 RDNS_DYNAMIC Delivered to trusted network by host with dynamic-looking rDNS X-Archives-Salt: 95f58a08-ea68-48b8-9fd0-a1b080e5146f X-Archives-Hash: 0482fbb00c53fb83bd8c4f99de6a50b7 090909 Maxim Wexler wrote: > My netbook has only (4+8)G of sketchy SSD + SDHC RAM for everything > and I am determined not to emerge anything I don't really need. > But now that I'm mobile I have the capability of doing a -uD world > whenever it's required without having to take days of dialup time. > Question is, when's that? I assume with fewer packages, > updating is not as urgent as on a big desktop > with lots of HD space and lots of apps. I recently successfully updated my stand-by desktop machine after 10 months. I never do 'emerge world' without the '-p' flag, but 'emerge -Dup world' shows an ordered list of what needs doing & you can work thro' the list 1 lineful of pkgs at a time. I update my working machine once/week ('eix-sync' & 'emerge -Dup world'). -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca