Gentoo Linux

[Adam J Bunton]

That was the exact answer I wanted to hear.  Common sense told me this was
true, I just wanted to confirm it.  GENTOO RULES.  I have used your portage
tips you have posted in other inquiries, they have been very helpful.  I
have been able to cut down the time I look for new packages I want to
deploy.  Thanks again.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Duane Attaway" <dattaway at dattaway.org>
To: "Adam J Bunton" <ajbunton at kc.rr.com>
Cc: <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 3:54 AM
Subject: Re: Gentoo Linux

> 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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