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Gary Golden wrote: |
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> On 11/02/2010 12:08 PM, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: |
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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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>>> |
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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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>>> |
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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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> Thanks for the correction, you're right, of course. |
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> Nevertheless, I've considered that using hardlinks is most porper way to |
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> solve this task. It basically do what I need, make another reference to |
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> the file under needed directory; without introducing compexity. |
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What about a bind mount? |
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Rgds, |
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Coert |
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