How often do you sync?

R.Smith · Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 11:31 pm Post subject:

I sync and also update world once a day. I like to keep my system up-to-date.

tane_stelzer · Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 11:59 pm Post subject:

These days sync once a day, just have nth to do and i just have a problem with having the newest stable stuff on my box :lol:

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John R. Graham · Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 1:57 am Post subject:

My Gentoo Home Router syncs once per day at 1:30am courtesy of cron. It has an Rsync server running and my other three Gentoo machines sync off of that at 2:30am.

I too love updates.

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neocon101 · n00b Joined: 28 Jun 2006 Posts: 2

I have a cron job that emerge --sync's every day at 3:50 am.

omp · Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 5:21 am Post subject:

BRPXQZME · Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 8:03 am Post subject:

"When I need to."

That can be maybe twice a day (once to watch it go slowly, ctrl-c, get a faster server in the rotation; okay, so maybe that's a little evil there...). If a package is giving me the pains, perhaps it's time to sync up. If the source file was long taken off the mirrors, definitely time to sync. If I need a really new version of something I'm using, time to sync (but check online first to make sure it's in portage). If this is my first time using the computer in a few months, emerge --sync, emerge -uNDpv world|less, deal with various blockers, emerge -uND world, etc-update, emerge --depclean -p, emerge --depclean, revdep-rebuild. I don't sync otherwise, and it averages to maybe once a month depending on how actively I'm using that computer.
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petrjanda · Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 8:07 am Post subject:

Marty Neal · n00b Joined: 19 Jun 2006 Posts: 3 Location: WA

I find that then I am going to be installing new software, or hardware especially, I'll sync up before I do any of it (this tends to be about once every two weeks) and my system seems to be happy most the time. I'm not a huge update freak, but would instead consider myself the average gentoo user, if there is such a thing
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Phenax · l33t Joined: 10 Mar 2006 Posts: 972

"Why fix what isn't broken."
With that idealogy we'd be back in the stone age.

I'm typically a bored person, and one of the activities I do is sync when I'm bored. Of course I do limit it to once a day.

~amd64 gets me usually ten updates a night.. It's quite fun.
One of my hobbies is fixing problems, and ~amd64 and syncing once a day gives me a chance to stretch my ability. :lol:

Aries-Belgium · Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 9:17 am Post subject:

I useally sync and update every weekend. But when I read there was an update of one of my favorite applications, I sync and update instantly.
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krolden · Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 9:44 am Post subject:

I sync every day at 06.00 (cron job)

clintpatty · Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 12:36 pm Post subject:

kraut · Apprentice Joined: 03 Jun 2005 Posts: 179

i sync dayly (cronjob).

i usually just update the kernel, KDE, and things glsa-check complains about (security risks!!).
if you do not sync dayly, you will not notice if some applications might be vulnerable. think about this, you monthly syncers :lol:

petrjanda · Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 1:59 pm Post subject:

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Napalm Llama · Guru Joined: 04 Jun 2005 Posts: 533 Location: Cardiff, UK

Once every two days. I've thought about setting up a cron job to do it automatically, but I love doing it myself too much...

It's like Christmas - "Ooh, what new packages am I going to get today?". And it's usually boring stuff, but occasionally there's something cool like a new nvidia release, or a new kernel - or even an update to KDE (3.5.2 coming off ~arch caught me completely off guard - made my day!)

I do an "emerge -DuavtN world" directly afterwards, but if I see a toolchain update I wait until just before I go to bed before setting off a full system rebuild (emerge -e system && emerge -e system && emerge -e world && emerge -e world).
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teidon · Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 4:38 pm Post subject:

I sync quite randomly. Once a weak, maybe once every 2 weeks, could go even month if I'm being lazy. Depends when ever I happen to remember/bother to sync. There's rarely any important new packages anyway, and those that I consider as important I look from Package Database and if there's a new version I want, I do sync && emerge -uDNav world then. I never sync more than once a day though, except if I happen to notice some important package being added to portage after I already synced that day, which has happened... never.
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jerkface · n00b Joined: 19 Apr 2004 Posts: 65 Location: Tacoma, Wa

I sync every hour on the hour. You can never be too careful. :wink:

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