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Shopro
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 Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 6:35 am Post subject: Keeping system updated |
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What is a prefered way to keep my gentoo system updated ?
So that i could get the latest security patches and so on ?
How offen should i update and what commands i should run and when.
Thanks in advance. |
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petrjanda
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| Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 6:47 am Post subject: |
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Hi and welcome,
To update
to view packages it will install
to install them remove the "p"
To install testing packages edit /etc/make.conf and find the line saying ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" and uncomment it.
You shouldnt update more often than once per day.
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Shopro
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| Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 6:51 am Post subject: |
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Thank you for your answer.
I read in some post that "emerge -u world could do alot harm for the system. And i also read about command "glsa-check -f all" but i am not sure what that command does ? |
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dan_a
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| Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 1:42 pm Post subject: |
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emerge -U (note the capital) can cause problems - emerge -u (lower case) should be harmless.
glsa-check -f applies fixes for any security advisories. Use glsa-check -l to list your vulnerable packages. |
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robmoss
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sekretarz
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| Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 3:04 pm Post subject: |
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I've added emerge sync to crontab and it's updating in the night 
i run emerge -u world twice a week or even more often.
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