Re: [gentoo-user] Suddenly emerging unstable packages = why?

["Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@gmail.com>]

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On Jan 8, 2008 7:48 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday 08 January 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > Hmm, sounds reasonable. Perhaps you mistakenly ran emerge --sync
> > instead of eix-sync that one time? I've done it myself once or thrice
> > :-)
> >
> > I would not have thought so because it's all done in cron jobs thrice
> > per week, giving me reports via email.
> >
> > However, it is true that emerge sync and eix-update were in two
> > separate jobs scheduled an hour apart. It is vaguely conceivable
> > that they got out of step somehow. I've unified them, and hope
> > things go better now.
>
> Yeah, that's probably it then. Doing an emerge at randomly selected
> times will cause i in about 60 or so to fall in that hour window :-)
>
> Any particular reason you run two separate jobs and not just eix-sync
> (which does both in sequence)?
>
> alan
>
> --
> Alan McKinnon
> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
>

Originally, because the output was hard to read I think.  And I figured that
starting them an hour apart would ensure sequence anyway.


-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

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