On Jan 8, 2008 7:48 AM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 08 January 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > Hmm, sounds reasonable. Perhaps you mistakenly ran emerge --sync > > instead of eix-sync that one time? I've done it myself once or thrice > > :-) > > > > I would not have thought so because it's all done in cron jobs thrice > > per week, giving me reports via email. > > > > However, it is true that emerge sync and eix-update were in two > > separate jobs scheduled an hour apart. It is vaguely conceivable > > that they got out of step somehow. I've unified them, and hope > > things go better now. > > Yeah, that's probably it then. Doing an emerge at randomly selected > times will cause i in about 60 or so to fall in that hour window :-) > > Any particular reason you run two separate jobs and not just eix-sync > (which does both in sequence)? > > alan > > -- > Alan McKinnon > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com >
Originally, because the output was hard to read I think. And I figured that starting them an hour apart would ensure sequence anyway. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
