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From: "Ryan Sims" <rwsims@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 10:40:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <64e8d2f20705290740h55aac804jeba8bd571731cfc8@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d9a0a6da0705290701gad7635fka08a7b9ae103572f@mail.gmail.com>

On 5/29/07, Denis <denis.che@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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"?
> --
> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
>
>

I have 2 gentoo boxes in our apartment(one's quiet since we just moved
and I haven't gotten back to it yet), I sync around once a week, and
-uDavN world when I sync.  If there are packages that look important
(gcc, glibc, baselayout, etc) I do a bit more research. I watch
gentoo.org and this list.  The only time I put off an update is if I
see notes about it on gentoo.org or such; things like the xorg modular
ebuilds, the new java system, etc.  I have portage email me the elog.

It's just me and my wife using the boxes, so I'm not as careful as I
would be were it a production server, but I've never really been
bitten, either.  As for balance with what I'm actually paid to do, if
I'm taken up with work, I don't update until I get some free time.

-- 
Ryan W Sims
-- 
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list



  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-05-29 14:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-29 14:01 [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration? Denis
2007-05-29 14:29 ` Mark Shields
2007-05-29 14:32 ` Kevin O'Gorman
2007-05-29 14:40 ` Ryan Sims [this message]
2007-05-29 14:48 ` Albert Hopkins
2007-05-29 14:50 ` Daniel Iliev
2007-05-29 16:49   ` Roy Wright
2007-05-29 17:07 ` Ralf Stephan
2007-05-29 17:39 ` Florian Philipp
2007-05-29 19:07   ` Denis
2007-05-29 18:45 ` kashani
2007-05-30  0:16 ` Tim Allinghan
2007-05-30  1:19   ` Denis
2007-05-30  2:20     ` Ryan Sims
2007-05-30  2:53       ` Michael Sullivan
2007-05-30  3:05       ` Denis
2007-05-30  7:21         ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-30  9:06           ` Eray Aslan
2007-05-30  3:20     ` Kevin O'Gorman
2007-05-30 10:03       ` Benno Schulenberg
2007-05-30 17:20         ` Denis
2007-05-30 20:57           ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-30  3:49 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-05-30  4:37   ` Denis
2007-05-30  7:22     ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-30  7:25     ` John covici

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