{"id":174,"date":"2008-01-21T06:53:11","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T11:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/2008\/01\/21\/gentoo-daily-updates\/"},"modified":"2008-07-25T10:11:33","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T15:11:33","slug":"gentoo-daily-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/2008\/gentoo-daily-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Gentoo daily updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing can touch gentoo when it comes to keeping an up-to-date linux system.  It has the tools (emerge, dispatch-conf, elogviewer, etc.) to tell you what has changed since yesterday, get the changes, and integrate them into your system.  linux is a crazy-assed pile of mismanaged bits that are freshly broken in a dozen ways every single day.  Anybody that runs a linux system will&#8230;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>spend a not-insignificant amount of time keeping their system running; and&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>tell you they don&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>It&#8217;s part of the whole cocky &#8220;look what I can do&#8221; competitiveness built into every geek.  Go ahead, now it&#8217;s time for you to lie to me and tell me otherwise.  \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n<p>My current strategy for staying on the back of the bucking linux bronco&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Run three machines: bleeding edge, desktop, server<\/li>\n<li>Update the bleeding edge every day, to &#8220;learn&#8221; (Note that I do NOT run unstable releases, but trust me, your configuration will get broken as software is &#8220;upgraded&#8221;&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>Update the desktop, only with what you need, when you want the latest &#8220;tool&#8221; (dependencies should get updated as you go)<\/li>\n<li>Only run the essentials on the server, and update every 6 months (less means you&#8217;ll get too out of date, more means you&#8217;ll be broken too often)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On my bleeding edge machine, I update the entire system every night.  Then I run a script to (re-)pop up dispatch-conf in a terminal, and elogviewer in an X window, so that when I look at the machine, I have an immediate summary of configuration changes and what I need to do to update.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: I&#8217;m adding categories for each of my gentoo machines, to track cascading configuration changes.  Check out my groovy icons!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing can touch gentoo when it comes to keeping an up-to-date linux system. It has the tools (emerge, dispatch-conf, elogviewer, etc.) to tell you what has changed since yesterday, get the changes, and integrate them into your system. linux is a crazy-assed pile of mismanaged bits that are freshly broken in a dozen ways every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,14,15,16,18,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gentoo-desktop","category-gentoo-notes","category-gentoo-server","category-gentoo-nightly","category-gentoo-media-center","category-tricks-tips-tools"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M11L-2O","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}