Gentoo Maintenance Guide

[morgajel]

One thing I haven't had much luck finding on the forums or google is a Gentoo Maintenance Guide.

Suppose you have a Gentoo machine dropped in your lap- how do you take care of it and keep it healthy?

any documentation on this is welcome, as are tips.

Things I try to do on a daily basis:
check the security advisories and make sure you don't have any known issues open
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/index.xml

Things I try to do on a weekly basis
emerge sync
emerge -upDv world --newuse
(then upgrade the packages I wish to upgrade)
etc-update
revdep-rebuild


Surely there's more than that (or perhaps better variations).

Thoughts?

[loki99]

You could use dispatch-conf (emerge gentoolkit) or cfg-update instead of etc-update.

The main advantage would be, that both apps automatically make backups of the files you are updating. So if you ever mess up, it's easy to copy the original file back.

[morgajel]

This is a perfect example of what I'm talking about

perl-cleaner all

and

python-updater


wtf did these utilities come from, how often should you run them, is there any way to do this pre-emptively? are they any others like this?

I hate finding these simple tools because it usually means something broke and this will fix it.