From: "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] User eix-sync permissions problem
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 06:07:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140211110710.GA21214@waltdnes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52F9B5FE.4000506@gmail.com>
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 07:32:46AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote
> emerge --sync X number of times daily in a cron
>
> emerge -avuND world deliberately and manually as the sysadmin at your
> leisure.
>
> Two different actions in time.
Assume you sync once a day, and update once a week, the first 6 syncs
would be mostly wasted. Yes, your final sync would be smaller. But
your machine and the server would have to go through the file-comparison
process 7 times, instead of once.
--
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-11 11:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-10 16:05 [gentoo-user] User eix-sync permissions problem Stroller
2014-02-10 16:55 ` Gleb Klochkov
2014-02-10 17:09 ` Stroller
2014-02-10 19:03 ` Walter Dnes
2014-02-10 19:29 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-02-10 23:10 ` Kerin Millar
2014-02-10 23:57 ` Walter Dnes
2014-02-11 0:05 ` Stroller
2014-02-11 0:12 ` Stroller
2014-02-11 0:28 ` Kerin Millar
2014-02-11 1:23 ` Walter Dnes
2014-02-11 2:11 ` Kerin Millar
2014-02-11 2:50 ` Mike Gilbert
2014-02-11 5:41 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-02-11 5:32 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-02-11 11:07 ` Walter Dnes [this message]
2014-02-11 11:12 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-02-11 12:14 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-02-10 19:40 ` Kerin Millar
2014-02-10 19:45 ` [gentoo-user] " eroen
2014-02-10 18:45 ` [gentoo-user] " Alan McKinnon
2014-02-10 20:30 ` Kerin Millar
2014-02-11 1:03 ` Kerin Millar
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