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Apparently, though unproven, at 00:21 on Wednesday 03 November 2010, Francesco |
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Talamona did opine thusly: |
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> On Tuesday 02 November 2010, Gary Golden wrote: |
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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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> > 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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> > |
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> > Have a nice day! ;) |
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> Actually it's much easier, I have two machines, both with /etc/world. |
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> And it's a exact copy of /var/lib/portage/world, something in my |
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> computers is doing this, and it isn't a (soft|hard)link :) |
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> sys-apps/portage-2.2_rc67 |
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You have a funky cron somewhere? Are time stamps the same? |
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I don't have such a thing: |
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$ emerge -V |
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Portage 2.2.0_alpha3 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.5, |
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glibc-2.11.2-r3, 2.6.36-ck x86_64) |
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$ ls -al /etc/world |
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ls: cannot access /etc/world: No such file or directory |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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