when does it go from 'updating' to 'just crazy'?

Allan · 2008-07-11 06:55:57

Doc Angelo wrote:

INCSlayer wrote:
i do it when im bored
Phew, i'm not alone with this...

I'm that bored, I just updated my notebook, my server, both my stable and testing building chroots... and now I am telling people about it on the forums

Zepp · 2008-07-11 07:05:28

Misfit138 wrote:

wonder wrote:
heleos wrote:
I probably do it once an hour...
many users that do it like you complain about missing dependency after kernel update from for e.g 2.6.24, 2.6.25 or other major upgrade .
i'm upgrading only if i need the software (new feature) and only after i check forum, bug to see if are problems. thats why i never screw up my archlinux box. i'm using arch for 2 years
Best answer.

Personally, I do it about once a week.

Ya I try to update my arch box's every week or two unless I have an issue that needs to be resolved more immediately.

Updating every hour is just wasteful I think. That and to do it every hour I would think it's an automatic cron task which is often not a great idea I have found in the past, best to review the updates prior to install.

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Oxyd · 2008-07-11 11:11:48

I just upgrade whenever I feel like it -- it ranges from daily to fortnightly for me.

Seriously, though -- updating every hour? If nothing else, you're probably making quite some traffic for your mirror. I remember that Gentoo sync servers contained a message saying that syncing more than once a day was considered abuse.

.:B:. · 2008-07-11 11:43:10

heleos wrote:

I probably do it once an hour...

I plead guilty too. It's just stronger than me

Maybe I do it even more, I didn't check on it yet. Would be an interesting experiment.

kclive18 · 2008-07-11 12:19:22

I use yaourt instead of pacman for my system (I don't have to sudo ). I will admit I do it around 2-3 times a day.

fuscia · 2008-07-11 12:38:43

Zepp wrote:

Updating every hour is just wasteful I think. That and to do it every hour I would think it's an automatic cron task which is often not a great idea I have found in the past, best to review the updates prior to install.

your excessive practicality looms like a dark cloud over my parade of foolishness.

kensai · 2008-07-11 13:35:04

wonder wrote:

heleos wrote:
I probably do it once an hour...
many users that do it like you complain about missing dependency after kernel update from for e.g 2.6.24, 2.6.25 or other major upgrade .
i'm upgrading only if i need the software (new feature) and only after i check forum, bug to see if are problems. thats why i never screw up my archlinux box. i'm using arch for 2 years

Oh my, you are missing all the fun in breaking your system, I mean is there much more in using a computer than breaking your system?

wonder · 2008-07-11 13:49:50

kensai wrote:

Oh my, you are missing all the fun in breaking your system, I mean is there much more in using a computer than breaking your system?

from time to time i'm bored because my archlinux didn't broke but i managed once to break it badly. file system corruption

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Zeist · 2008-07-11 15:00:14

I run it every couple of days on my desktop and about once a week or os on the other computers on my network that run arch.

Allan · 2008-07-11 15:08:43

wonder wrote:

from time to time i'm bored because my archlinux didn't broke

I hear kensai recommends using "mv" to merge .pacnew files in order to break your system.

josomebody · 2008-07-11 18:53:22

I have an RSS ticker reading off the package update list. If something I want updated comes up, I update. This usually happens once or twice a day, less often if I'm on a "let's play with testing a while" binge.

semperfiguy · 2008-07-11 20:06:59

I have a script that tells me when there are updates.. Usually I update whenever I see there are updates.

arch0r · 2008-07-11 20:32:23

two or three times a day. depends on which packages have been released and if there are any bug reports concerning packages which could harm my system.

dav7 · 2008-07-21 04:05:16

Right now, I have a rather bleak diskspace situation (1.8GB for /, 1.4GB for ~, I do have 15GB available on my server in / if I need it), but once I get a somewhat more spacious HDD (45GB for / anybody?), I'll probably enable my closest mirror, download the entire repo (or at least half of it anyway, beats doing it slowly over the course of a few years), enable every mirror, and then have an RSS checker check the package feed every 15 minutes. When there's an update, I'll have it pacman it in silently then notify me. Popups saying "Your kernel has just been upgraded to 2.6.30. Please put rebooting on your todo list" FTW!

-dav7

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handy · 2008-07-21 04:35:28

Mainly just to keep the size of the update manageable I do it about once a fortnight unless something I'm upto inspires/requires an -Syu.

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