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 BAF511381F3 for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2012 01:37:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4234021C068; Wed, 5 Dec 2012 01:37:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F29A421C040 for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2012 01:36:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from android-576d40b20a46728f.digimed.co.uk (unknown [192.168.1.133]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1490480B06 for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2012 01:36:13 +0000 (GMT) User-Agent: K-9 Mail for Android In-Reply-To: References: 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: multipart/alternative; boundary="----ICVJ37UHKJPABRT17C40NVMG73EW35" Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] System maintenance procedure? From: Neil Bothwick Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2012 01:36:11 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-ID: <5c00f8dd-b7d0-40c7-90cd-cbff12abfd85@email.android.com> X-Archives-Salt: c4b2af53-19d0-4957-80b4-69ec9e1b0f68 X-Archives-Hash: 79aa0ae417a85721077554ea7d239231 ------ICVJ37UHKJPABRT17C40NVMG73EW35 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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: > > emerge -DuN world > revdep-rebuild > etc-update > elogv > emerge --depclean > eclean distfiles > eclean packages > > Am I missing any good stuff? > > - Grant The first depclean is redundant, you haven't updated anything so it won't show anything useful. I only run depclean and revdep-rebuild weekly,I don't see a need to routinely do it more often, especially on slower systems. I do run eix-update and eix-update-remote after my daily sync.I run eix-test-obsolete from the weekly cron script. Frequent cleaning of packages is not a good idea IMO, I like to keep the old veraions around for at least a few days, in case something unpleasant shows up and I want to roll back. I also have portage mail elog messages to me, so I don't bother with elogv. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. ------ICVJ37UHKJPABRT17C40NVMG73EW35 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> 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:

emerge -DuN world
revdep-rebuild
etc-update
elogv
emerge --depclean
eclean distfiles
eclean packages

Am I missing any good stuff?

- Grant

The first depclean is redundant, you haven't updated anything so it won't show anything useful. I only run depclean and revdep-rebuild weekly,I don't see a need to routinely do it more often, especially on slower systems. I do run eix-update and eix-update-remote after my daily sync.I run eix-test-obsolete from the weekly cron script.

Frequent cleaning of packages is not a good idea IMO, I like to keep the old veraions around for at least a few days, in case something unpleasant shows up and I want to roll back.

I also have portage mail elog messages to me, so I don't bother with elogv.
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