Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am 02.08.2014 09:17, schrieb Dale: >> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >>> Am 01.08.2014 16:30, schrieb behrouz khosravi: >>>> Hello everybody. >>>> I have a little bandwidth problem. I don't want to update my packages >>>> very frequently. >>>> Is it save to sync my portage not very often, say every month or two, >>>> so when I install something I wont be warned that some of my packages >>>> are outdated? >>>> In this manner I wont need to mask my packages, to prevent them from >>>> updating, right ? >>>> >>>> Thanks. >>>> >>>> . >>>> >>> the longer you wait, the more problems you will have. >>> >>> >>> So sync often. >>> >>> Installing the actual updates? On a weekly basis is a good rule of thumb. >>> >>> And don't use --pretend, use --ask. Portage has become slow as f.... >>> over time. You don't want to waste time to let it do the same twice. >>> >>> Also: read the manual. You obviously haven't - or did not understand >>> everything you read, so read again. For your own safety. >>> >>> >> Back when I was on dial-up, I did my updates on Monday I think it was. >> In the case of OOo, just downloading the tarball could take a couple >> days. Once a week is pretty good in my opinion as well. I'd be nervous >> about going months tho. On occasion that can get to be a bit much. If >> two nasty updates hit at the same time, it could get touchy. >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) >> >> . >> > back when I was responsible to keep 250 net-junkies online, the longer I > waited the worse the problems. And you only have so much time between > different WoW raids... > >
True. I think the official claim is that once a year updates are supported. However, we have seen people that wait that long, and sometimes not even that long, and encounter a update process that deals with two or three deal breakers. I can't recall the package names but I know a couple packages can be a hair puller on their own. When you add in two of them at the same time, it gets bad really fast. So you make a good point. That is the reason I wanted to do updates about every week when I was on dial-up. I might would go two weeks at times. Now that I have DSL, I update usually twice a week. If I am expecting say a upgrade of KDE in between, I may add one that week or just shuffle my schedule to make it include the KDE upgrades. I have found that the twice a week updates are usually easier than the weekly ones when I was on dial-up. The improvements in portage could account for some of that but still, avoiding having two major changes at the same time is a good idea. The devs do seem to try and spread those apart a little anyway. They can't hold them forever tho. While every day may be a bit much, waiting months has its own issues. Then again, someone missing their WoW game may be a issue of its own. They may get . . . angry. LOL Dale :-) :-)
