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From: David Grant <davidgrant@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted /var/lib/portage/config
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 10:13:59
Message-Id: d18977190609010308y3a4ba426jf0b551e2b5375db6@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted /var/lib/portage/config by Erik
1 I noticed that my /var/lib/portage/config file is not getting
2 populated with new entries anymore, although it did get created by
3 some program. Very strange...
4
5 David
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7 On 9/1/06, Erik <sigra@××××.se> wrote:
8 > David Grant wrote:
9 > > But what is config all about? On my other machine it looks like the
10 > > file contains a bunch of hashes for config files in /etc/. Are these
11 > > used to quickly see if a file in /etc/ is different or does it just do
12 > > a diff?
13 >
14 > It looks like the numbers I get when running "md5sum <filename>", at
15 > least for files that I have not modified or deleted. "man portage"
16 > mentions files that portage uses, but not /var/lib/portage/config. It is
17 > either because the file is not meant to be edited by the administrator
18 > or a documentation bug.
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