emerge --update world... how often?

TidyKiller · n00b Joined: 07 Aug 2004 Posts: 20

I'm that caliber of geek that likes having everything up to do 100% of the time, but updating all my packages every day seems to be quite a load on bandwidth. I'm curious.. how often do you update your gentoo?

geniux · Veteran Joined: 19 Feb 2004 Posts: 1400 Location: /home

I think you'll find some answers at this thread:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=163377

I do

chunderbunny · Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 11:16 pm Post subject:

I have one gentoo server and 3 workstations. The server runs a cron job to emerge sync every 2 days, followed by an emerge -upDv world. I look at the output of this to determine if any important packages have been upgraded, and I manually emerge the ones that have. /usr/portage is shared over NFS to all the workstations, so I only need to sync once for 4 computers. I still need to run emerge -puDv worls on each machine manually, which I only do if there was anything upgraded on the server.

placeholder · Advocate Joined: 07 Feb 2004 Posts: 2500

I sometimes do it daily, but usually I wait about a week or so.