On 1/8/08, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
