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2010/11/2 Gary Golden <mail@××××××××××.me>: |
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> Hi, list. |
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> I keep changes of my /etc with git and I would like to include |
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> /var/lib/portage/world file into the repository. |
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> Can I safely do: |
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> mv /var/lib/portage/world /etc/portage |
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> ln -s /etc/portage /var/lib/portage/world |
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> Will portage update handle it properly? |
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> Using hardlinks seems to be more cleaner way, but for some reason I |
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> don't want to use it for this task. |
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It should work. Just try it out, but make a copy of your world file |
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before. Should be easy to switch back if anything fails. |
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Afaik, the creation of the symbolic link should look like this: |
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ln -s /etc/portage/world /var/lib/portage/world |
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Daniel Pielmeier |
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