[gentoo-portage-dev] Re: [RFC] New file layout for PKGDIR and binhosts

[Duncan]

Zac Medico posted on Thu, 25 Dec 2014 03:04:20 -0800 as excerpted:

> FWIW, you can use 'cp -rl $PKGDIR $PKGDIR.backup' to make a hardlink
> snapshot of $PKGDIR. Portage will break hardlinks whenever it needs to
> update tbz2 files, so you don't have to worry about updates in $PKGDIR
> affecting the files in $PKGDIR.backup.

Thanks.  Your portage knowledge, and more to the point your calm patience 
explaining its workings and fixing its bugs, always amaze me. =:^)  I 
sure missed it while you were gone and sure am glad you're back, with 
more help now. =:^)

I had overlooked emaint --fix binhost (a hazard for those who have been 
around long enough to have tools seriously evolve after the original 
learning period), and hadn't thought at all about hardlinks (or btrfs 
reflinks, since I'm using it for that partition).  I expect I'll find 
this quite useful. =:^)

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