[PLUG] Gentoo Auto Update

lemming icepirate at comcast.net
Wed Sep 3 08:20:02 UTC 2003


Cooper Stevenson wrote:
> All,
> 
> I would like to have my machines auto-update by running a weekly crontab
> like so:
> 
>   emerge rsync
>   emerge update portage
>   emerge -u world
> 
> May one rely on this not breaking things?

Though it's rare, it sometimes needs a personal touch if something 
breaks during updates.  As long as you read your output to keep your 
config files updated, it should work.

Myself I just run

emerge sync
emerge -pu world

Then decide when I want to update.  Sometimes I'll just update a few 
parts for now and update the rest later.

-Mark





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