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

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

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On 1/8/08, Bo Ørsted Andresen <bo.andresen@zlin.dk> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 08 January 2008 23:30:51 Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > > > 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.
> [...]
> > > Any particular reason you run two separate jobs and not just eix-sync
> > > (which does both in sequence)?
> >
> > Originally, because the output was hard to read I think.  And I figured
> > that starting them an hour apart would ensure sequence anyway.
>
> Surely you ran update-eix and possibly diff-eix rather than eix-sync then?
> Running eix-sync and emerge --sync would mean syncing twice a day (for no
> good reason)...
>
> --
> Bo Andresen


Indeed.  I run update-eix, but I don't do it every day.   The entire package
runs three times per week, and I use the emails from it to decide whether or
when to emerge world.  I keep pretty current, but don't see the point in
daily updates.

++ kevin



-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

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