Gentoo Linux

[Duane Attaway]

On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Adam J Bunton wrote:

> This is an simple question, I just haven't had time to research the
> answer and assumed somebody from the group would know.  My distro of
> choice is Gentoo.  I have a server running Gentoo and insteading of
> doing the tedious task of updating from their updated ISOs every couple
> of months I would rather just emerge -u world weekly to constantly
> update the system.  I wanted to know if this would keep the system as
> current as if I had reinstalled from their ISOs.

emerge rsync
emerge world

That's about bleeding edge as you can get.  It syncs up to the current
tree.  I have been doing this for about a year.

You might want to add the "-up" option when rebuilding the world to review
what will be done.  Sometimes package maintainers just have to include
every fancy whiz bang default option in their ebuild.

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