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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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> 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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> 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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HTH |
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Francesco |
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Linux Version 2.6.35-gentoo-r11, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Oct 29 |
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20:33:46 CEST 2010 |
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Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4021.86 Bogomips Total |
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aemaeth |
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