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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> Apparently, though unproven, at 23:00 on Thursday 12 May 2011, Tanstaafl did |
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> opine thusly: |
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>> Probably a dumb one, but... |
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>> I have /home, /usr and /var on separate partitions... |
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>> If I want to image my system prior to the update 'just in case' |
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>> something goes south, am I correct that all I need to worry about is /, |
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>> since /etc is located there? |
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>> In other words, is anything on /usr or /var touched during this update? |
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> No. |
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> $ equery files openrc | grep '/usr/|\/var/' |
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> $ equery files baselayout | grep '/usr/|\/var/' |
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> $ |
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> All the affected configs are in /etc/ |
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That was all I backed up when I did mine to. If it does go south, just |
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re-emerge the old packages and restore /etc from your backups. Should |
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be back to normal. |
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That said, follow the guide and you should be fine. It went smoothly |
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for me. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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