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On 11/02/2010 03:53 PM, Coert Waagmeester wrote: |
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> Gary Golden wrote: |
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>> On 11/02/2010 12:08 PM, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: |
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>>> 2010/11/2 Gary Golden <mail@××××××××××.me>: |
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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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>>> It should work. Just try it out, but make a copy of your world file |
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>>> before. Should be easy to switch back if anything fails. |
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>>> Afaik, the creation of the symbolic link should look like this: |
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>>> ln -s /etc/portage/world /var/lib/portage/world |
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>> Thanks for the correction, you're right, of course. |
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>> Nevertheless, I've considered that using hardlinks is most porper way to |
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>> solve this task. It basically do what I need, make another reference to |
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>> the file under needed directory; without introducing compexity. |
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> What about a bind mount? |
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> Rgds, |
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> Coert |
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Indeed, it is another solution for this. |
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But its disadvantage is that it requires additional configuration (fstab |
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at least) |
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If /var would be on another fs, then I would use bind mount, though :) |
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Gary Golden |
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