Jerry McBride wrote:
> Gene Poole wrote:
>
>> I've been a Slackware user for years but I've recently made the switch
>> to Gentoo on a few boxes to see how it suits my needs. I've got my
>> system set up the way I like it with X11, gdm, fluxbox, and all the GUI
>> apps my wife needs (firefox, skype, etc). My question now is how to
>> keep it all up-to-date. Emerge and portage sound simple enough in
>> concept, but it seems like every time I dig into the docs, I discover
>> another command or option that I was unaware of. I'd like to script out
>> the update process as much as possible, but I'm not sure if I've got all
>> my bases covered. Here's what I do now:
>>
>> emerge --sync
>> emerge -Du world
>> etc-update [follow the prompts]
>>
>> I'm sure I'm missing some important steps.
>
> I'd make a habit of running revdep-rebuild every once in a while, to make
> sure the dependencies are up-to-date...
>
> As for scripting it... well... you can run "emerge --sync" as a chron job,
> but that would be the end of automating the update process. You don't want
> to automate the "emerge -u world"... incase it wants to drag in anything
> you don't want and automating "etc-update" is just totally WRONG. You would
> very easily overwrite your hard earned config files in /etc if you weren't
> careful...
>
> Cheers.

Yeah, I understand about the etc-update thing, but is there any reason
why the "world" option would drag stuff in once the system is to my
liking? As it is now, if I run "emerge -Du world" (or system) I get
nothing. It's all up to date and has all the features I currently
need/want.