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 1HtBzl-0008Jn-7c for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 30 May 2007 00:24:57 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4U0NhZZ004569; Wed, 30 May 2007 00:23:43 GMT Received: from vscan03.westnet.com.au (vscan03.westnet.com.au [203.10.1.142]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4U0HFNN028401 for ; Wed, 30 May 2007 00:17:16 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8696CB61146 for ; Wed, 30 May 2007 08:17:13 +0800 (WST) Received: from vscan03.westnet.com.au ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (vscan03.westnet.com.au [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 25142-04-7 for ; Wed, 30 May 2007 08:17:13 +0800 (WST) Received: from [10.1.1.70] (unknown [124.149.51.184]) by vscan03.westnet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id C180BB610E1 for ; Wed, 30 May 2007 08:17:10 +0800 (WST) Message-ID: <465CC27A.7030405@westnet.com.au> Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 10:16:58 +1000 From: Tim Allinghan User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070306) 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: 9ab985d8-758a-4db5-baa5-e67999052a92 X-Archives-Hash: 071700d310437dccfa1db76474cd8fc3 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"? Last thing before I hop off each night, emerge --sync followed by a -pv -uDN world, if I'm happy I fire it up and head to bed :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list