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 1Ht2s7-0002Vp-8V for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 29 May 2007 14:40:27 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4TEdHUG003173; Tue, 29 May 2007 14:39:17 GMT Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.248]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4TEWG6e026840 for ; Tue, 29 May 2007 14:32:18 GMT Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c8so562471ana for ; Tue, 29 May 2007 07:32:16 -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=osSfI8OWyaff956WuabaJaWvMw/tiq/7NjhjeKEsn28y/S13bnbaB3h8NqDaD3GEQ7EneM25uWkjYVs1Enfmj2j3LXXykce0NLpEXTYRPejHUEi3pRLMExUiEbRmoTf8PJEtMRe+tBsUR6+F1A4ekSzHktBTqUvEtVR5ruXjAto= 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=HTldH2gUEvDBPP6TWCNl7zzekxIZyO21X7UDn5KZolMmUWwJa0E1CcPHCZhoNn678dd3dSI6k+k2s+JGxMT2rl7rAkacNbA5gfiIMo5GfgAiuaekGSP4FhxXSXv7slYIPxD9VO6/MiGv8a7HRxxiQLjVQaIrxxfP8LdMUdjISXc= Received: by 10.100.154.13 with SMTP id b13mr5197259ane.1180449135630; Tue, 29 May 2007 07:32:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.37.16 with HTTP; Tue, 29 May 2007 07:32:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <9acccfe50705290732h81f98a5y9bf828c7a3d3adab@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 07:32:15 -0700 From: "Kevin O'Gorman" 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: X-Archives-Salt: f3047a36-d90c-4c43-bcc7-3a7f34183f83 X-Archives-Hash: bc76e54151b1ea9be831328c7ac3b72a On 5/29/07, 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"? > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > I have a cron job that does emerge --sync and another that does revdep-rebuild -p. These email me their results. At least once a week, I manually do emerge -aDvu world Unless there's something particularly weird, I say "yes" when it asks if I want the emerge. I have the PORTAGE_NICENESS set to 15 in /etc/make.conf, and since there are 4 hyperthreads on this machine, I also have MAKEOPTS=-j4. Together, these leave enough compute power that I never really notice the load. Besides, it's easy to start the emerge at the end of the day. At the end of the emerge, I run etc-update. Each change I make in a config file is tagged with a string that is easy to recognize. If I have never modified a config file in the past, I accept all changes -- I reason that if what the devs did the first time was good enough, that is probably still true. There are only about a dozen packages that I made any changes to, so it's fairly easy to keep up with things. Most weeks I spend less than an hour on administration. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list