From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BAD51381F3 for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2012 10:10:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 225A321C014; Wed, 5 Dec 2012 10:10:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f53.google.com (mail-bk0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7399F21C005 for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2012 10:09:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-bk0-f53.google.com with SMTP id j5so2043039bkw.40 for ; Wed, 05 Dec 2012 02:09:02 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:organization :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=5mgAuMEXRBj3GMbCjVUcY901mrXiywWNliUz+kP5N1w=; b=zsFJZRsmOhz0KSlqKQJkDbdFa7tFe2lYYCMnpcCdI4kYQexwRS8TFg81rvEJ7Q1y9H 4Ud3NCziXwc6AvNHnq58jwkPAjhFtCUg4aPq0i5Bok61boayF9rY2Ax36mpmFJoBv3B5 cdl6uitRSWbnn8S7g/BYkUSWQZPexUiF3ql+ZFQb48+44FzZpA5Bu+OfwrdwP4lhafwg wDa9iPWFGpCXRV+4AGEXVtB1Kc/XVMkOdHpXL+z/PzsUwvKrj68kbRoAvGV40IunpBpW WHdSNLUVirbX5xvkcbxI2LORNzZzPDc7rybD0eqBJG0xel6KbKb9zZv2PJwdcVNuqh0j 2WEg== Received: by 10.204.147.78 with SMTP id k14mr5042132bkv.7.1354702142731; Wed, 05 Dec 2012 02:09:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from khamul.example.com (196-215-205-177.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.215.205.177]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q22sm3203144bkv.16.2012.12.05.02.08.58 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 05 Dec 2012 02:09:00 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 12:05:50 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] System maintenance procedure? Message-ID: <20121205120550.2bc346bf@khamul.example.com> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Internet Solutions X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.1 (GTK+ 2.24.13; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b94d25cc-4ccc-4151-89c9-8905b3b5f3e0 X-Archives-Hash: 7b749844c22adcf29b983a834af1cb76 On Tue, 4 Dec 2012 16:30:33 -0800 Grant wrote: > My unattended daily system maintenance procedure is like this: > > layman -S > emerge --sync > emerge -pvDuN world > emerge -pv --depclean > eclean -p distfiles > eclean -p packages > > And then attended like this: > > > revdep-rebuild > etc-update > elogv > emerge --depclean > eclean distfiles > eclean packages > > Am I missing any good stuff? > > - Grant I'd tweak the order of your attended run: emerge -DuN world emerge @preserved-rebuild emerge --depclean revdep-rebuild The logic is: Rebuild busted packages that portage already knows about (@preserved-rebuild), then get rid of oudated packages and finally revdep-rebuild to fix anything that --depclean broke. @preserved-rebuild is getting very good at what it does lately (supported in all recent portage version including stable IIRC), as is --depclean, so revdep-rebuild seldom finds anything to do these days. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com