On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, 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]

Use dispatch-conf instead of etc-update. It keeps track of files where you
accepted the newer version with no changes and automatically selects the
newer version in the future. It optinally uses rcs to keep track of
changes. You will need to edit its configuration file to have it do more
automatically.


>
> I'm sure I'm missing some important steps.
>