Just curious, how did you setup a private rsync server? =C= * Cal Evans * http://www.christianperformer.com * Stay plugged into your audience * The measure of a programmer is not the number of lines of code he writes but the number of lines he does not have to write. *
----- Original Message ----- From: "daniel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 1:12 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cron & emerge tips? > On June 12, 2003 08:46 am, Tracy McKibben wrote: > > Just curious to hear how others are doing scheduled updates. I currently > > am doing an "emerge -U world" each night on my workstations, "emerge -Up > > world" on my server with the results emailed to me. Is this pretty much > > what others are doing? I wondered about adding --deep, but that one kind > > of scares me. > > i run a private rsync server that does a single update every day, and then i > manually do an "emerge --pretend --update --deep world" on each of my > machines (3) and update everything that doesn't look scary (ie. i would wait > a few days to emerge gcc just to make sure that it didn't accidentally get > unmasked etc.). > > i've found that there's no reason to fear the "--deep" switch. all it does is > check for upgrades a little deeper than without. i've never had problems > with it. > > -- > you cannot harm one who has dreamed a dream like mine. > - ojibwe prayer > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
