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stupidkid Apprentice
Joined: 17 Apr 2006 Posts: 247 Location: 127.0.0.1
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Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 12:40 am Post subject: How often do you sync? |
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Hello, I'm rather new to Gentoo. I have a friend who syncs every other day and yet another who syncs every month. How often should one sync?
Thanks. |
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clintpatty Apprentice
Joined: 21 Jul 2005 Posts: 173 Location: Alabama
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Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 12:57 am Post subject: |
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It depends on what updates you've read about and need, or what updates you want to check out. Sometimes when I'm installing a system and haven't got early kinks worked out and a sync fails, I'll sync or metadata a few times a day until I get it completely done. The longest I've gone without a sync is about 3 months. |
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Phenax l33t
Joined: 10 Mar 2006 Posts: 972
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Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 1:10 am Post subject: |
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I usually sync once every day or two. I loove getting updates.. |
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Q-collective Advocate
Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 2071
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Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 2:44 am Post subject: |
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Syncing is just part of the daily routine, sometimes I sync more then one time a day. |
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arpunk n00b
Joined: 13 Jun 2006 Posts: 61 Location: Colombia
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Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 3:54 am Post subject: Indeed |
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Q-collective wrote: | Syncing is just part of the daily routine, sometimes I sync more then one time a day. |
Indeed. Usually i sync once a day. |
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codergeek42 Bodhisattva
Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 5142 Location: Anaheim, CA (USA)
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Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 4:00 am Post subject: |
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Q-collective wrote: | Syncing is just part of the daily routine, sometimes I sync more then one time a day. | Please try to limit yourself to once or twice per day, as any more could potentially put much unneeded load on the servers. Thanks.
(See: GF15: Rsync etiquette OR How often should I sync?) _________________ ~~ Peter: Programmer, Mathematician, STEM & Free Software Advocate, Enlightened Agent, Transhumanist, Fedora contributor
Who am I? :: EFF & FSF |
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<3 Veteran
Joined: 21 Oct 2004 Posts: 1081
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Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 4:10 am Post subject: |
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codergeek42 wrote: | Q-collective wrote: | Syncing is just part of the daily routine, sometimes I sync more then one time a day. | Please try to limit yourself to once or twice per day, as any more could potentially put much unneeded load on the servers. Thanks.
(See: GF15: Rsync etiquette OR How often should I sync?) |
Why do people feel the need to sync everyday? It just causes unnecessary strain on the servers. No one should have to sync more than once a week and even then that is too many syncs for the average user. Just because there is an update in portage to software you have installed does not mean you have to update it. |
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AaronPPC Guru
Joined: 29 May 2005 Posts: 522 Location: Tucson, AZ
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Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 4:17 am Post subject: |
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I sync portage and layman overlays and update world once per week. In times of intense development activity I sync and update twice per week. _________________ --Aaron |
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Frodg l33t
Joined: 11 Feb 2004 Posts: 761
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Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 4:24 am Post subject: |
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It varies from daily to monthly - depending on what I am doing and my available free time _________________ Aerosolo ergo sum - I spray therefore I am
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Varean Guru
Joined: 03 Jul 2005 Posts: 436 Location: California, USA
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Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 4:30 am Post subject: |
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A sync a day keeps the doctor away..... _________________ Registered Linux User #387568
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Old School Apprentice
Joined: 20 Nov 2004 Posts: 252 Location: West Bank of the Coast Fork
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Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 5:04 am Post subject: |
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Twice a month. _________________ www.otw20.com
The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.
George Orwell |
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codergeek42 Bodhisattva
Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 5142 Location: Anaheim, CA (USA)
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Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 5:14 am Post subject: |
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I should add that, when I was still using gentoo, I synced and updated about every weekend or so. Though, it was sometimes a bit more often for security updates and things of that nature. _________________ ~~ Peter: Programmer, Mathematician, STEM & Free Software Advocate, Enlightened Agent, Transhumanist, Fedora contributor
Who am I? :: EFF & FSF |
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HTS Guru
Joined: 20 Feb 2006 Posts: 410 Location: Bristol, UK
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Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 6:27 am Post subject: |
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Sync everyday? No way!
If you're happy with your system and you're not an update-geek, just sync one a week. This will make sure you get the most recent security updates in time and don't make sync-servers uselessly busy |
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beatryder Veteran
Joined: 08 Apr 2005 Posts: 1138
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Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 7:21 am Post subject: |
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<3 wrote: | Why do people feel the need to sync everyday? It just causes unnecessary strain on the servers. No one should have to sync more than once a week and even then that is too many syncs for the average user. Just because there is an update in portage to software you have installed does not mean you have to update it. |
Yes it does, I so totally does.... I have the rss feeds for x86 testing and stable added to akregator, so I tend to only sync when I see that a package I use has been updated. Sometimes this is once a day, others its once a week. I try to avoid more than one per day, unless i am troubleshooting a nasty issue, which does not happen that often. _________________ Dont make it idiot proof, make it work.
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P3SM Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 13 Apr 2006 Posts: 93 Location: Gronsveld - The Netherlands
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Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 10:53 am Post subject: |
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I only sync before I install new packages or when I feel the need to update my system, which due to time restraints is no more than once every other week! _________________ Smaug: Sun Netra T1 105, UltraSPARC-IIi 440MHz, 512MB, 2*36GB 10kRPM; 2 Sun Netra D130: 6*36GB 10kRPM, swraid 0
Haku: Dual P3 Xeon 500MHz, 512MB; Sun Multipack: 12*18GB 10kRPM, hwraid 5
Falkor: Sun SparcStation LX, 128 MB, 2.1GB |
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xef Guru
Joined: 20 Jun 2003 Posts: 460 Location: Porto - Portugal
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Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 10:58 am Post subject: |
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At work i sync once a week, at home i have set cron to do ir every nigth. But i will change it do be weekly too. |
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Ian l33t
Joined: 28 Oct 2002 Posts: 834 Location: Somerville, MA
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Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 11:48 am Post subject: |
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I usually do it at least once or twice a week, when I'm home and bored (like over the summer, yay college), I'll do it once a day because I've got nothing better to do.
On some machines I don't sync for months, and then get burned trying to update a bajillion packages in which half of them have bugs or don't work. Sucks when that happens. |
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bladus Apprentice
Joined: 27 Jul 2005 Posts: 233
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Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 11:56 am Post subject: |
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once a day (but only since it's vacation and im bored ... ^^) |
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xef Guru
Joined: 20 Jun 2003 Posts: 460 Location: Porto - Portugal
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Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 12:03 pm Post subject: |
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Ian wrote: | I usually do it at least once or twice a week, when I'm home and bored (like over the summer, yay college), I'll do it once a day because I've got nothing better to do. |
I know what it is... We need girlfriends |
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petrjanda Veteran
Joined: 05 Sep 2003 Posts: 1557 Location: Brno, Czech Republic
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Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 2:06 pm Post subject: |
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I dont use Gentoo anymore, but I "sync" my pkgsrc tree about once or twice a fortnight to see whats new. If I find it interesting I install the update. GUI related stuff I update about once in 4 months. _________________ There is, a not-born, a not-become, a not-made, a not-compounded. If that unborn, not-become, not-made, not-compounded were not, there would be no escape from this here that is born, become, made and compounded. - Gautama Siddharta |
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electrofreak l33t
Joined: 30 Jun 2004 Posts: 713 Location: Ohio, USA
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Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 2:51 pm Post subject: |
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I usually sync probably about twice a week... but I've lived without a sync for a month or so before. _________________ Desktop: ABit AN8, Athlon64 X2 4400+ 939 2.75GHz, 2x1GB Corsair XMS DDR400, 2x160GB SATA RAID-0, 2x20"W, Vista Ultimate x64
Laptop: 15.4" MacBook Pro 2.4Ghz, 2x1GB RAM, 160GB, Mac OS X 10.5.1
Server: PIII 550Mhz, 3x128MB RAM, 160GB, Ubuntu Server 7.10 |
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P3SM Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 13 Apr 2006 Posts: 93 Location: Gronsveld - The Netherlands
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Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 3:08 pm Post subject: |
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electrofreak wrote: | but I've lived without a sync for a month or so before |
That must have been hell.... _________________ Smaug: Sun Netra T1 105, UltraSPARC-IIi 440MHz, 512MB, 2*36GB 10kRPM; 2 Sun Netra D130: 6*36GB 10kRPM, swraid 0
Haku: Dual P3 Xeon 500MHz, 512MB; Sun Multipack: 12*18GB 10kRPM, hwraid 5
Falkor: Sun SparcStation LX, 128 MB, 2.1GB |
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SiberianSniper Guru
Joined: 06 Apr 2006 Posts: 378 Location: Dayton, OH, USA
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Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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I usually just check packages.gentoo.org daily or so and see if there's anything interesting I want to update. So I usually end up syncing maybe 3 times a week. |
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cokey Advocate
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Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 10:36 pm Post subject: |
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How often do you sync? When ubuntu says that there are updates _________________ https://otw20.com/ OTW20 The new place for off the wall chat |
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Ian l33t
Joined: 28 Oct 2002 Posts: 834 Location: Somerville, MA
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Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 11:03 pm Post subject: |
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xef wrote: | I know what it is... We need girlfriends |
Yeah...
Since I'm at home, my mom bugs me about it...but I'm home for less than eight more weeks, and I deem that clearly not enough time to bother with anything serious, so I'll just play with Gentoo for the summer and hope there's nice freshmen girls back up at school... |
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