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 72E3013877A for ; Sat, 2 Aug 2014 07:17:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D9A25E0B34; Sat, 2 Aug 2014 07:17:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yh0-f53.google.com (mail-yh0-f53.google.com [209.85.213.53]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 91E7CE0ABA for ; Sat, 2 Aug 2014 07:17:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-yh0-f53.google.com with SMTP id c41so3130956yho.26 for ; Sat, 02 Aug 2014 00:17:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Bfma2pKrJQddyAuwaztE+Ohey/xGFo43yfn2O2g4YNs=; b=lrjXnCOOSzTSYCYXoU2iav7k7bco3QIpkwOsrCNXfX+sEADVG7lGPxYo26oAkz5aiz ViJqriNB4xOEOssNDzor2g1vfo+PWRYlHQ+EREg7YVNJ/dTW58gZ4KKl1Uacc/h6HBb6 4n5/u6Xn/kyuOr1yVibLIc8AfaQotrvnyyxLxshOWjRBrM1Dy1VI9/0UkfdeJ29Y3Z8t +taz4t6GKOU0aju564BJMp71LX98O2Q11I0J/H0F13mFPabGz6Qq1ADJtIZbUyKU+7Hz gkypyXRuVhDK6nP8WCG22NTek1vnbbAeRQsrZjbtm30mWAjSzq388itKf0c7wiVad0rF NYSg== X-Received: by 10.236.229.234 with SMTP id h100mr16392979yhq.64.1406963838612; Sat, 02 Aug 2014 00:17:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-95-27.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.95.27]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id g25sm18257065yhc.25.2014.08.02.00.17.17 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 02 Aug 2014 00:17:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <53DC907C.70103@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 02:17:16 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0 SeaMonkey/2.26.1 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] a question about emerge --sync References: <53DC4C5E.5000003@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <53DC4C5E.5000003@googlemail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: baf7768c-0e14-4399-b149-8d4754b23e87 X-Archives-Hash: dc9d71c3dbadda3c07e00f8994ff37dc Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am 01.08.2014 16:30, schrieb behrouz khosravi: >> Hello everybody. >> I have a little bandwidth problem. I don't want to update my packages >> very frequently. >> Is it save to sync my portage not very often, say every month or two, >> so when I install something I wont be warned that some of my packages >> are outdated? >> In this manner I wont need to mask my packages, to prevent them from >> updating, right ? >> >> Thanks. >> >> . >> > the longer you wait, the more problems you will have. > > > So sync often. > > Installing the actual updates? On a weekly basis is a good rule of thumb. > > And don't use --pretend, use --ask. Portage has become slow as f.... > over time. You don't want to waste time to let it do the same twice. > > Also: read the manual. You obviously haven't - or did not understand > everything you read, so read again. For your own safety. > > Back when I was on dial-up, I did my updates on Monday I think it was. In the case of OOo, just downloading the tarball could take a couple days. Once a week is pretty good in my opinion as well. I'd be nervous about going months tho. On occasion that can get to be a bit much. If two nasty updates hit at the same time, it could get touchy. Dale :-) :-)