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From: Peter Humphrey <prh@gotadsl.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64]  Backup techniques   Was: audio/vidio apps and glibc-2.5?
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On Tuesday 24 October 2006 14:18, Bo =D8rsted Andresen wrote:

> /var/db/pkg contains info about what is installed. If you lose it in th=
e
> best case `emerge -e world` will regenerate it. In the worst case you m=
ay
> need to reinstall. It has nothing to do with the metadata which are
> located in $PORTDIR/metadata.

Ah. I stand corrected.

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Rgds
Peter

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