Re: [gentoo-user] emerge questions

[Brett I. Holcomb]

I feel it's best to keep updated.  I ususally emerge sync once/day. 
Then I do emerge -uDp for system and world to see what it wants to 
update.   If I like the list I let it do it, otherwise I pick and choose 
which ones to update.  As for updating all config files you run 
etc-update, look at each and decide.  Some obviously don't need updating 
(like /etc/fstab).  Don't just tell etc-update to to them all unless 
you've checked what its going to do.  Normally things don't break when 
you update - at least for me.

Ben Munat wrote:
How often should I emerge sync? How often should I update portage? I 
just did emerge sync and it tells me I should update portage -- from r19 
to r20 -- and "update ALL of [my] configuration files". Should I emerge 
portage everytime there's a new version? Are these config files of which 
it speaks updated when I do etc-update? Do I need to emerge sync again 
after updating portage? How often should I emerge -u world or emerge -u 
system? Is it best to wait on these big updates until there are crucial 
changes... or maybe it'll be faster if I do it weekly? Can I look 
forward to things breaking when I emerge -u world or system?

Thanks,

b

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