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Apparently, though unproven, at 11:54 on Tuesday 02 November 2010, Gary Golden |
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did opine thusly: |
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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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> >> 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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> 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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hard links will only work if /etc/portage and /var/lib/portage are on the same |
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filesystem. Frequently, they are not. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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