On Tue, 29 May 2007 23:05:56 -0400, Denis wrote:
I use 'gunzip -c /proc/config.gz .config make oldconfig'
consistently, never had a problem. I always keep a working kernel
in
Oh neat-o! I didn't know there was a copy of the running config
in /proc...
It's an option you need to
On Wed, 30 May 2007 00:37:16 -0400, Denis wrote:
While we're on the subject of administration, I have a question about
emerge. Sometimes emerge would display important information in green
or yellow stars after it's finished merging a package - such as
warnings or valuable tips. However, if
on Wednesday 05/30/2007 Denis([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
While we're on the subject of administration, I have a question about
emerge. Sometimes emerge would display important information in green
or yellow stars after it's finished merging a package - such as
warnings or valuable tips.
On 30.05.2007 10:21, Neil Bothwick wrote:
This runs in the early hours, so I can read it whenever it suits me during
the day and apply the changes as I want. I run testing, so frequent
updating is a good thing; with a stable system, weekly would be fine, but
the longer you leave it the more
Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
On 5/29/07, Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
I read the man make.conf and also the make.conf.example. Seems
pretty clear, except what is the qa option for the
PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES variable? And I assume the info option logs
all the green-star stuff at the end of emerge?
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On Wed, 30 May 2007 13:20:13 -0400, Denis wrote:
I read the man make.conf and also the make.conf.example. Seems
pretty clear, except what is the qa option for the
PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES variable? And I assume the info option logs
all the green-star stuff at the end of emerge?
qa = Quality
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
On 5/29/07, Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
On 5/29/07, Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
On 5/29/07, Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 10:01 -0400, Denis wrote:
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.
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by daily server. Did you
On Tue, 29 May 2007 10:01:39 -0400
Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 09:48 -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote:
On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 10:01 -0400, Denis wrote:
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.
Daniel Iliev wrote:
I have a daily cron job containing:
===
emerge --sync \
emerge -DuNf world \
glsa-check -t all 21 | mail -s GLSA report root
===
In other words it syncs the tree, fetches all the new packages and then
checks for security vulnerabilities. If glsa-chack says This
You wrote
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?
I have settled to a 5-day routine, when I sync, update completely
the system target, and go through the listing of changes to world,
where
Am Dienstag 29 Mai 2007 16:01 schrieb Denis:
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
Denis wrote:
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?
All these responses are very helpful - thanks for taking your time to reply!
Yea, my needs are pretty simple - just maintaining computational
workstations (one at home, one at work) - I am the primary user. I am
not running any servers on either box. I've never used cron - I
haven't felt the
Denis wrote:
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?
On 5/29/07, Tim Allinghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
On 5/29/07, Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 5/29/07, Tim Allinghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 22:20 -0400, Ryan Sims wrote:
On 5/29/07, Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 5/29/07, Tim Allinghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
On 5/29/07, Ryan Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I use 'gunzip -c /proc/config.gz .config make oldconfig'
consistently, never had a problem. I always keep a working kernel in
Oh neat-o! I didn't know there was a copy of the running config in /proc...
Does this basically just insert the
On 5/29/07, Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
On Tuesday 29 May 2007 09:01:39 Denis wrote:
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.
In server-land I would perform all upgrades on a test system
While we're on the subject of administration, I have a question about
emerge. Sometimes emerge would display important information in green
or yellow stars after it's finished merging a package - such as
warnings or valuable tips. However, if emerge is processing several
packages in a chain, it
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