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From: Chris White <chriswhite@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Where does portage keep resume infrmation
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 09:38:35
Message-Id: 200509180300.51188.chriswhite@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Where does portage keep resume infrmation by Neil Bothwick
1 On Saturday 17 September 2005 18:13, Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > Since emerge --resume works after a reboot, portage must keep the list of
3 > remaining emerges on disk somewhere, but where?
4
5 /var/cache/edb/mtimedb
6
7 this file is a serialized python object. This basically means that a python
8 object was dumped into a text file for later use. However, it's python
9 specific serialization so you're going to need python to unpack the data (and
10 don't even ask me how :P)
11
12 Chris White

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Re: [gentoo-user] Where does portage keep resume infrmation Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>