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 1Ht2NQ-0002I5-4T for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 29 May 2007 14:08:44 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4TE7UJI016751; Tue, 29 May 2007 14:07:30 GMT Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.239]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4TE1gvd008724 for ; Tue, 29 May 2007 14:01:43 GMT Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id n1so1219065nzf for ; Tue, 29 May 2007 07:01:41 -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:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=jMuSeCG5jr8m3Gj1eX7dDBVdBTgMAE6fX8rqCNNVUBLH8kCZpd9roToRRriIBK/jEIZ8s4x19OrRaB8+bMpVVPc7cm2b2wJgSVzWArlZHZwKDZcWj+tCRel854i5G4jflw96H3XJ9Wy22JJvWXFNHY7A/a7F1FVgqzzIWhYouXg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=LdOdeBL+naRldxzAoJICvS7jWThXrnYc33b+ir9gxNUyUMgGCf1R2r5Z3PBWKBZMNMHMYytsbZhzTThh1cq/yaecJnvQzJHU0aFq6oh3/Tv7TnWd2RI/0r3vIi+MwopXPBNO2603PCo2yM6xnTNNDZH0KtkOHiUwWOlQkZDKXNQ= Received: by 10.114.102.1 with SMTP id z1mr3421994wab.1180447299410; Tue, 29 May 2007 07:01:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.72.10 with HTTP; Tue, 29 May 2007 07:01:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 10:01:39 -0400 From: Denis To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration? 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 X-Archives-Salt: cb68a38f-dad4-43c3-b67a-deceb37324c1 X-Archives-Hash: a8151801edabf024533a57d4898bada4 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