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MrBackhand

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From: Texas, USA

Registered: 2006-05-26

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How often do you pacman -Syu and reboot?

This has probably been asked a 100 times but I was unable to find it, but I am curious from the masses.  So, how often do you pacman -Syu and reboot?  Or do you only reboot if certain files are updated?  Do you update to the newest kernel every time there is a new one available?

Thanks!

z3ppelin

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Registered: 2006-07-10

Posts: 171

Re: How often do you pacman -Syu and reboot?

I'm doing pacman -Syu almost every day and rebooting only on new kernel version.

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Registered: 2006-11-26

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Re: How often do you pacman -Syu and reboot?

Same here . Many pacman -Syu's but few reboots . Only after kernel updates.

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manmower

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2006-11-17

Posts: 100

Re: How often do you pacman -Syu and reboot?

I'd say on average daily or every other day, usually synced with testing unless some major problems surface with the testing packages. I usually don't reboot immediately afterwards but I do it once a day anyway as I turn my computer off when leaving home.

bones

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From: Brisbane

Registered: 2006-03-24

Posts: 322

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Re: How often do you pacman -Syu and reboot?

Maybe pacman  twice a week and reboot when a kernel is updated and rebuild e17 every 2 weeks

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jwbirdsong

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From: Western KS USA

Registered: 2006-11-25

Posts: 173

Re: How often do you pacman -Syu and reboot?

Not that I'm one who usually goes with the crowd; but pacman -Syu almost daily (using testing also) and reboot when necessary.

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T-u-N-i-X

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From: İstanbul

Registered: 2006-03-14

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Re: How often do you pacman -Syu and reboot?

a little bit mad about using an up2date distro. I do it twice a day.. restart when necessary..

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antenna

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From: Australia

Registered: 2006-10-14

Posts: 30

Re: How often do you pacman -Syu and reboot?

Same here, -Syu every day or so and reboot on new kernel version usually.

ozar

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From: USA

Registered: 2005-02-18

Posts: 1,686

Re: How often do you pacman -Syu and reboot?

Usually daily, except that I wait a day or two when new kernel, udev, xorg, etc updates come out so that I can first read about any bugs encountered by other users.

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Echo

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From: Ohio, United States

Registered: 2006-05-16

Posts: 239

Re: How often do you pacman -Syu and reboot?

I try to -Syu daily and I end up rebooting for an assortment of reasons about once a week.

baze

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Registered: 2005-10-30

Posts: 393

Re: How often do you pacman -Syu and reboot?

i reboot after kernel upgrades, but also after udev upgrades. /etc/start_udev doesn't seem to work that great most of the time. i had some troubles with the graphics card after that sometimes.

i -Syu pretty often. perhaps too often

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2006-11-23

Posts: 450

Re: How often do you pacman -Syu and reboot?

pacman -Syu once a day, machine isn't on 24/7 so I never reboot for updates since I turn it off at night anyway.

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codemac

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From: Cliche Tech Place

Registered: 2005-05-13

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Re: How often do you pacman -Syu and reboot?

I pacman -Syu once a day, maybe every other day....

And I have a laptop, so I reboot probably once a day, and hibernate about 3 times a day.

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lessthanjake

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From: Norway

Registered: 2005-11-09

Posts: 319

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Re: How often do you pacman -Syu and reboot?

I do a pacman whenever there is any new updates. I reboot my desktop on new kernels or major updates and my laptop I shutdown whenever I am not using it.

ozar

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From: USA

Registered: 2005-02-18

Posts: 1,686

Re: How often do you pacman -Syu and reboot?

This has probably been asked a 100 times but I was unable to find it...

I answered your question above, but here are a couple more "how often" related threads for your review:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=13046

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=21389

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Mikko777

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From: Suomi, Finland

Registered: 2006-10-30

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Re: How often do you pacman -Syu and reboot?

I pacman -Syu once a day, maybe every other day....

And I have a laptop, so I reboot probably once a day, and hibernate about 3 times a day.

I'm like codemac, except i don't code very well nor hibernate 3 times a day ^^ and i'm more handsome

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elasticdog

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From: Washington, USA

Registered: 2005-05-02

Posts: 995

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Re: How often do you pacman -Syu and reboot?

pacman -Syu probably every other day...reboot when necessary or every couple of weeks

ralvez

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From: Canada

Registered: 2005-12-06

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Re: How often do you pacman -Syu and reboot?

I run updates/upgrade usually a few times a week (3 o 4) but I never reboot afterwards ... that's for Windows users