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 1Ht6mi-0000gS-6h for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 29 May 2007 18:51:08 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4TInd20012493; Tue, 29 May 2007 18:49:39 GMT Received: from www01.badapple.net (www01.badapple.net [64.79.219.163]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4TIj6qm007328 for ; Tue, 29 May 2007 18:45:07 GMT Received: from [10.72.229.31] (unknown [207.126.230.232]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: ramin@badapple.net) by www01.badapple.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84E6579680A4 for ; Tue, 29 May 2007 11:45:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <465C74B0.1060500@badapple.net> Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 11:45:04 -0700 From: kashani User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0362e418-76eb-4073-8653-e3b3ab89a85c X-Archives-Hash: 2230988738d508f881b272f013dd3368 Denis wrote: > 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"? For the home samba server I update about once a year. My room mate updates the mythtv machine never. My vps instance with mail, web, etc does an eix-sync and glsa-check once a week and then I maybe emerge something once a month. I've been playing with Apache 2.2 lately which has been updating pretty quickly the last few weeks, but that's a bit of out of the ordinary. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list