* Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?
@ 2007-05-30 2:20 99% ` Ryan Sims
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From: Ryan Sims @ 2007-05-30 2:20 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On 5/29/07, Denis <denis.che@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/29/07, Tim Allinghan <deserted@westnet.com.au> 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.
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