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On Montag, 17. Dezember 2007, Raphael wrote: |
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> On Dec 17, 2007 11:55 AM, Hemmann, Volker Armin |
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> <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de> wrote: |
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> > *removedlotsofideas* |
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> ?? |
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> > your ideas sound nice on paper. But one strenght of portage and its |
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> > structures: no matter how hosed your 'data', you can repair it with cp, |
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> > mv, an emerge sync and a text editor. |
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> > |
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> > Which is all not true, if you start using some database crap. |
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> > |
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> > Go, look at /var/db/pkg - you can read and repair that stuff easily. |
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> > Or the files in /var/lib/portage. Damaged world-file? nano FTW! |
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> The Portage files are easy to maintain. But I honestly never _had_ |
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> to read them. I just did out of curiosity. And I never needed to |
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> repair them either. When I got hosed data, I just replaced everything |
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> with the latest backup copy and never looked back. |
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which won't help you much if the last backup is 7 days old and you just did a |
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big fat update/cleanup circle. I had to repair stuff in /var - and I was glad |
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that everything was nice, readable text files. Made the whole thing very |
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easy. |
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