Comments on: Optimizing Gentoo

by: Freek Sanders

Mon, 18 Jul 2005 08:54:31 +0000

The portage speedup change should be marginally different.

Since the whole code is python, it should be indented:

#Revision
try:
import psyco
psyco.full()
except ImportError:
pass
#End revision

PS: use tabs instead of spaces

by: Vivek

Sun, 01 May 2005 15:17:18 +0000

Good one for gentoo buffs

by: Peter Herndon

Thu, 03 Mar 2005 20:58:58 +0000

stahlsau, you are either a relative newbie to Gentoo, you are tracking stable only, or you’ve been *REALLY* lucky. I’ve had updates seriously break my ‘puter about four times in two years of running Gentoo. Admittedly, I’ve always tracked unstable, so I am happy to take responsibility for it, but it has happened. I’ve never done the updates as a cronjob, though, I’m always sitting there doing something else while it updates in the background.

by: Clete R. Blackwell 2

Thu, 03 Mar 2005 15:05:25 +0000

stahlsau — what does dispatch-conf do?

by: stahlsau

Thu, 03 Mar 2005 15:03:38 +0000

I don´t think it´s dangerous to update full-automated during the night. I do it for some time and never had problems. The most updates in portage are bugfixes and downgrades cause of securityholes, both things you´ll want to get done as fast as you can if you want a secure system.
I run dispatch-conf every morning, mostly there´s nothing to do and if there is something, it´s done in a few minutes, so one really doesn´t spend more time fixing the configs than using the system
Also, i´ve never broken things through upgrading, if i broke s/t it was because i refused to downgrade or s/t like that.

by: JAT

Thu, 03 Mar 2005 14:05:46 +0000

I agree that automatically emerging world every night is a bad practice. I update my system frequently, but always run emerge -uDp before so I can see what is going to be done. Care needs to be taken when updating config files as well (etc-update) as this can be a big source of headaches if done carelessly.

by: Dale Pontius

Thu, 03 Mar 2005 13:20:48 +0000

However I do run “emerge sync” and “emerge -uDp world” every night, and the next day I can see what needs to be done. One of these days I plan to incorporate an “emerge -f” into that, so things will be there and ready for me.

by: JRB

Thu, 03 Mar 2005 12:38:22 +0000

emerge -uD nightly! Not a good idea. This is the kind of things that leads users of other distros to say Gentoo is unstable, and to criticize Gentoo users. Updating nightly, especially automatically, is an incredibly bad idea. In most cases you will be breaking things and spend more time updating configuration files than you will using your system. It’s certainly not a good idea in terms of security, because you are constantly changing your system without even knowing what is being done. I always laugh when I hear people say…”I can’t believe I was hacked, I emerge world every night.”