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 1HtDwk-0006F9-Rv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 30 May 2007 02:29:59 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4U2Smd4005258; Wed, 30 May 2007 02:28:48 GMT Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.182]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4U2KNe3025763 for ; Wed, 30 May 2007 02:20:23 GMT Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id p76so3320924pyb for ; Tue, 29 May 2007 19:20:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=bM1IZ/Td4Fmt47Xs9d8Pp7PVoplvsLqBqbUwv/IdqNDsUc9Q+Em9J0poHMDh6f35eN9TSTAUAvLX+UJfjsv+vlXvqFLf1oRSqx5hDxJSpoI+jicgF/H/YnXWxXivfkDAha8DKXjPXKQBcAF1QZWvmUf/af7QzM5/enR8Ztop8Vw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=IaM1fH2m5Zim6V9a4RCk512tmwHzjKMeU/sRgpk75XoPrZ+97tUTRyrbuV3GA3w0JeNIjTM5DfwFMRH6cZzv0Q9Mxd9TsKsFhqHxhqLBUMZYXYCgY2MVR6oUqXfqT31kaDq60yRGOdZlKaqxvhkPZSfIllyw7ff5HiDm+1Jnb10= Received: by 10.35.76.9 with SMTP id d9mr14238944pyl.1180491617267; Tue, 29 May 2007 19:20:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.94.18 with HTTP; Tue, 29 May 2007 19:20:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <64e8d2f20705291920y7eeb1d4cg6444a8c6b90148bf@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 22:20:17 -0400 From: "Ryan Sims" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration? In-Reply-To: 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <465CC27A.7030405@westnet.com.au> X-Archives-Salt: a80cf045-2826-4f0f-904e-9c5bdcb781d1 X-Archives-Hash: aae3f8b3f7abd45855d34556c0339813 On 5/29/07, Denis wrote: > On 5/29/07, Tim Allinghan wrote: > > > 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 :) > > I'm sure that makes for particularly sweet dreams ;-) > > One thing I've wondered about... When you update X or nvidia drivers, > do you need to kill X before running emerge? I've never done it *before* the emerge, but I usually restart after the merge, like any other service. Only time I've ever had a problem with a program running while emerging is with a glibc upgrade a while back screwing with a running Firefox, restarting Firefox solved things. > I usually dread kernel updates because then I have to go through > kernel menuconfig all over again, and for me, that takes some time. I > guess one can reuse the old .config file, but I understand it's not > always a safe thing to do. Is it reasonably ok to wait for every > "major" 2.6.x release to update, or is it necessary to update on every > minor 2.6.x.y release also? I use 'gunzip -c /proc/config.gz > .config && make oldconfig' consistently, never had a problem. I always keep a working kernel in grub.conf in case of screwups, and I read the options very carefully before selecting. One caveat: going from 2.4 to 2.6 I reconfigured by hand from scratch. Whenever we get to 2.8 (or whatever the next major release is), I'll do that again. -- Ryan W Sims -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list