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From: Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] backups: remove Portage cruft?
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 23:42:24
Message-Id: 448DF89D.8010001@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] backups: remove Portage cruft? by Joerg Plate
1 Joerg Plate wrote:
2 >>Do make sure you back up the base /var/cache/edb/
3 >
4 > Why? Anything in /var/cache doesn't need to be in a backup,
5 > because it can be generated when necessary (in theory...)
6
7 in theory, yes; in practice there are a couple of files you may not want
8 to destroy (mtimedb, counter)
9 --
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Re: [gentoo-dev] backups: remove Portage cruft? Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>