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Apparently, though unproven, at 19:02 on Sunday 19 September 2010, Mark Knecht |
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did opine thusly: |
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> In a related way I've never stopped to look at /usr in the process of |
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> doing an install. I have an old Mac Mini that I've been trying to get |
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> Gentoo running on recently so in the middle of my install this morning |
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> I stopped after untarring the stage-3 tarball and before untarring the |
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> portage snapshot and found that /usr/portage doesn't exist at that |
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> point. |
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> Does this suggest that I'm actually free at any time to rm -r |
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> /usr/portage and just untar the current snapshot? Other than distfiles |
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> and the overhead of downloading all that stuff again is there anything |
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> in /usr/portage that once erased would damage the machine? |
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No, nothing. All the valuable data files are elsewhere in /var and all of |
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portage can be downloaded at any time. |
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$PORTDIR/local/layman can also be downloaded at any time. |
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Your personal overlay (if you have one) in $PORTDIR/local/$WHATEVER will of |
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course get nuked so you should back that up. It will be re-read when you put |
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it back and run eix-update |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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