How often do you sync?

cubancigar11 · Guru Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 322

If I have time, I sync daily. If I dont have time, I safely put it for next day or later. Any sync only brings more programs to compile, and most of the updates are not really needed THAT urgently. So I have marked several packages as very important, such as amaroK etc., and sync with every release of them.

Syncing weekly is enough. Sync daily only because you want to distribute the compilation load over the week, so to say.
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chrismortimore · Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 7:41 am Post subject:

I sync both machines at least once every weekend (normally on Sunday after my backups finish).
I also follow the x86 package RSS feed, and if a package I want comes into the tree (like xorg 7), I'll sync then.
I also sync when I'm bored and want something to do

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R!tman · Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 9:15 am Post subject:

On my server/router I have a cronjob that syncs every morning. The PCs behind this server are sync to that server in very different intervals. My own PC daily most times, my girl friend's about twice a month, aswell as her notebook. The third guy in the flat share, whom I persuaded to use gentoo too, has synced once since I installed gentoo for him - that was about 6 month ago :-)

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olger901 · l33t Joined: 17 Mar 2005 Posts: 606

Randomly, mostly once in 3 or 4 days, sometimes twice a day other times just once a week...
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Jinidog · Guru Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Posts: 593 Location: Berlin

Well, I developed ViewPortageX (which basically reads in packages.gentoo.org, but has additional cool features) and since I use it my sync-rate has reduced to once every two weeks, because I can see, what is new in portage since my last sync.
Try it out!

http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=32012
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Zee · Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 1:10 pm Post subject:

once a month does the trick.

Freman · n00b Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 27

I have one machine that syncs twice daily off an ISP mirror.

I then sync all 48 other machines off that - I think we can all agree that's a fair arrangement (c:
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mwilliamson · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Jul 2005 Posts: 83

I usually look at http://gentoo-portage.com/Newest for new packages. Then if I see something I want I sync and install it. Sometimes I also do a emerge -pvu world to see whats new after a sync.

cokehabit · Advocate Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Posts: 3302

mine automagically does apt-get update

Icer · Guru Joined: 26 Aug 2003 Posts: 388 Location: @home

I sync maybe 2 - 3 times a week. Now in summer it's maybe less often.

I know which packages are outdated but I try to wait until the packages go stabile. I'm lazy my system works and I dont want to break it now. Especially when one has to go working every day and work with pc's etc. You dont want to mess with things if it's not necessary. You get enough of that in the work. Plus one tends to be tired after work.

Just recently I updated system and left the other packages intact. No need to hurry. I do watch the online package database almost daily. It lessens the need to sync.
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gentoo_lan · Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 3:36 pm Post subject:

I usually try to sync at least once a day.
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xglad · Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 3:36 pm Post subject:

I sync twice a week or so to pick up the GLSAs. That kind of sucks on a lot of levels because it would be nice to have daily GLSA updates and I don't need to sync my whole tree that often. Reading through this thread last night and thinking about this problem gave me an idea, albeit a simple one: just the sync ${PORTDIR}/metadata/glsa. This script is still a little rough around the edges.

kraut · Apprentice Joined: 03 Jun 2005 Posts: 179

xglad · Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 4:16 pm Post subject:

You're welcome.

I'll think on the kernel thing a little. That should be pretty easy to hack in though.

This whole thing would be made useless by a --sync-glsas option to emerge. I can't believe that --sync-glsas hasn't been suggested and is pending, or has been dismissed for some reason. I'll research this a little today and look into doing this right (by patching emerge/portage). Surely there is a 500 page flamefest about --sync-glsas that I should be reading.

ddriver · n00b Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 53

Once a day via a cron job, followed by an emerge --update --fetchonly world.

My ISP gives me free bandwidth from 00:00 to 06:00 so it's done then.

My other two machines sync from my server as and when required.

kraut · Apprentice Joined: 03 Jun 2005 Posts: 179

xglad · Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 4:49 pm Post subject:

Ah ha. From /usr/lib/gentoolkit/pym/glsa.py (which glsa-check uses):

TheWhiteKnight · Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 5:31 pm Post subject:

Only once a week for me here as well. I try to keep myself off of the mirrors so the people who depend on them are not slowed down by me and my sync's. Since this is on one of my 3 home boxes and it is not a high priority, I don't push the sync issue as I would, say if I was running a rack of blades all running Gentoo. Guys who are running Gentoo in their production environment are the only people that I can see who would have a reason to sync on a daily basis. End users "toying around" with a hobby system like myself or the joe-shmoe who compiled it to spite the Winblows users, I cannot see more than once a week (unless a major update or security patch is released). Just my $.02

DDriver, I have never heard of an ISP charging you for bandwidth unless you are using a hosting site and you get charged that way. I have my own .com and I get charged bandwidth above the 100Gb mark per month. Usually you either have broadband and you pay a flat fee for unlimited usage during the billing cycle, OR you have dial up and we all laugh at you. (just kidding). Who is your ISP? < so I know who to stay away from. >

Mark Clegg · Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 5:55 pm Post subject:

Normally once or twice a week here, I tend to monitor the packages.gentoo.org RSS feed, and base my sync's on when something interesting appears.

dfens · n00b Joined: 15 Feb 2006 Posts: 1

For those that want to sync regularly without using rsync and be bandwidth friendly,
I can recommend emerge-delta-webrsync.
It uses patches against the webrsync tarball and the daily download is very small.
Check out http://gentoo.osuosl.org/snapshots/deltas/ for typical sizes,
usually no more than 200-300k per day.

pbardet · Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 6:36 pm Post subject:

I don't sync. My computer does it for me.
Once a day, at 2am everyday, in root's crontab. Then at 3am, another command sends an email of what needs to be updated, to my gmail account. Very handy to know if I need to update.

Philantrop · Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 11:45 pm Post subject:

cokehabit · Advocate Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Posts: 3302

wow! overkill!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Inte · Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 8:50 am Post subject:

Round about one sync per month. I just sync if there's a new version of my daily use programs. My wife sync's .... hmmm ... no she don't. I do it for her twice a year in addition to the world update.

Never change a running (desktop) system. Of course 24/7 broadband connected systems need updates due to security fixes, but my desktop/notebook? :roll:

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BRPXQZME · Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 10:28 am Post subject: