On 11/02/2014 01:57, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 11:10:50PM +0000, Kerin Millar wrote > >> As mentioned in a few other posts, recent snapshots are portage:portage >> throughout so it's a done deal for new installations. > > How "recent"? Looking back into ~/Maildir/spam/cur/ I see that the > email file suffix changed from ".d531:2,S" to ".i660:2,S" on May 14th, > 2013 (i.e. the current machine "i660" was installed and pulling mail as > of that date). > >> Those who still have it owned by root can benefit from usersync >> simply by running: >> >> # chown -R portage:portage "$(portageq envvar PORTDIR)" >> >> There is no subsequent requirement not to invoke emerge --sync as root. > > What's the point, if you still have to run as root (or su or sudo) for > the emerge update process? >
emerge --sync X number of times daily in a cron emerge -avuND world deliberately and manually as the sysadmin at your leisure. Two different actions in time. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
