Keeping up to date, do you -uD world or -u world?

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I've noticed that a lot of people say they just use emerge -u world, without checking deps with -D. However I just checked the -u and it's nice and small... Maybe -u updates once every day or two and -uD updates bi-monthly or something?

What do you do.

alechiko · Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 5:49 pm Post subject: Mm..

I always use the --deep flag. I think that the only time it is dangerous to use it is if you are running an ~x86 system because whilst a certain package might not work correctly if you chose to merge the masked version of it, doing an "emerge -uD world" with ~x86 in your make.conf could potentially have very negative effects on your system. So it really all depends on what sort of system you want to run.

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I always use plain -u and have never had any issues.

blackhorse · Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 6:06 pm Post subject:

I have always used -uD, but I have never had any problems.
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denstark · l33t Joined: 02 Jun 2003 Posts: 654 Location: sd.ca.us

I use emerge -uD world... no issues here.
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Pink · Veteran Joined: 24 Jul 2003 Posts: 1062

-uD for me.

The only time I had a problem was when I had a ~x86 system. But with package.keywords I don't need that anymore.

Insanity5902 · Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 6:41 pm Post subject:

i do a emerge -vauD world, and then a emerge -vauD system, sometimes they don't pick up the same packages.
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Illissius · Guru Joined: 31 Jul 2004 Posts: 395 Location: Hungary

I use -pvuD to check what apps have updates available, and then cherry pick the ones I want and emerge them seperately. Occasionally if the list gets really long I'll let the full -uD run overnight, but so far this has happened exactly once (been using it for ~6 months).
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Bertil · Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 7:40 pm Post subject:

I´m only use emerge world.
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Kioshen · Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 7:48 pm Post subject:

Same as everyone I guess ... running a full ~x86 system for more than a year using emerge -uDav world. Once in a while emerge -av depclean and revdep-rebuild. Never had major troubles to speak I maintain my system up to date nearly everyday. Troubles were incurred due to testing leading edge software and ebuilds ... easily resolved by checking bugs.gentoo.org.
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Dud3! · Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 8:00 pm Post subject:

I haven't done a system wide update on my comp yet because I only started using Gentoo in June and I kept putting off updating until this week. I did emerge -uD --newuse system (because I changed my USE flags quite a bit) the other day with no problems, and I'm doing emerge -uD --newuse world as we speak (169 to go!). I've been ~x86 from the start so we'll see what happens I guess.

After this I'll update more often (like once a week).
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alechiko · Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 8:23 pm Post subject:

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krolden · Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2004 11:03 am Post subject:

Just wondering: does it patch all security flaws as well? Because when I read some of the bugtraq entries at Gentoo, it sometimes suggests other arguments with the emerge command.

shash · Apprentice Joined: 18 Apr 2003 Posts: 220 Location: India

emerge -puDv world, look at the packages and update whatever is needed.

BoZ · Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2004 11:37 am Post subject:

First -pvuD and then -uD

spb · Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2004 12:23 pm Post subject:

mrmodin · Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2004 4:54 pm Post subject:

masseya · Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 6:20 pm Post subject:

I follow this advice when updating.
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Hobbit_HK · n00b Joined: 11 Nov 2004 Posts: 54 Location: Israel

emerge -uDvap world here..
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Dizzutch · Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 6:35 pm Post subject:

-uDp world | genlop --pretend to check the time it should take, and then disregarding however long it may take -uD world, i run some packages ~x86, but only when the masked version has some important changes.

Aynjell · Veteran Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 1117

Daily:

Lokheed · Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 7:58 pm Post subject:

Running my system on ~x86. Update quite frequently using:

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Aynjell · Veteran Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 1117

I do it while I sleep. No sweat. I mean, it's not like I'm wasting my time...

I only do it while I sleep...

Anyway, I add all kinds of things in and it helps to clean things up, methinks.

And with the system in my signature, it doesn't take long at all. Whoever said using linux on older comps was better is an idiot!!!

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