From: jmcbride@mail-on.us   
      
   Gene Poole wrote:   
      
   > I've been a Slackware user for years but I've recently made the switch   
   > to Gentoo on a few boxes to see how it suits my needs.  I've got my   
   > system set up the way I like it with X11, gdm, fluxbox, and all the GUI   
   > apps my wife needs (firefox, skype, etc).  My question now is how to   
   > keep it all up-to-date.  Emerge and portage sound simple enough in   
   > concept, but it seems like every time I dig into the docs, I discover   
   > another command or option that I was unaware of.  I'd like to script out   
   > the update process as much as possible, but I'm not sure if I've got all   
   > my bases covered.  Here's what I do now:   
   >   
   > emerge --sync   
   > emerge -Du world   
   > etc-update [follow the prompts]   
   >   
   > I'm sure I'm missing some important steps.   
      
   I'd make a habit of running revdep-rebuild every once in a while, to make   
   sure the dependencies are up-to-date...   
      
   As for scripting it... well... you can run "emerge --sync" as a chron job,   
   but that would be the end of automating the update process. You don't want   
   to automate the "emerge -u world"... incase it wants to drag in anything   
   you don't want and automating "etc-update" is just totally WRONG. You would   
   very easily overwrite your hard earned config files in /etc if you weren't   
   careful...   
      
   Cheers.   
      
      
      
      
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   Jerry McBride (jmcbride@mail-on.us)   
      
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