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On Tuesday 24 October 2006 16:01, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 24 October 2006 13:04, Duncan wrote: |
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> > For least trouble managing it, the goal in Gentoo terms should be to |
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> > include everything installed by portage, together with the portage |
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> > database (in /var/db), ... |
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> Personally, I don't bother backing-up /var/db since it's easily recreated |
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> with emerge --metadata. |
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/var/db/pkg contains info about what is installed. If you lose it in the best |
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case `emerge -e world` will regenerate it. In the worst case you may need to |
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reinstall. It has nothing to do with the metadata which are located in |
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$PORTDIR/metadata. |
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Bo Andresen |
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