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From: "Hemmann, Volker Armin" <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Filetimestamp needed by emerge ?
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 14:09:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200604211409.23368.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060421.053551.41659346.Meino.Cramer@gmx.de>

On Friday 21 April 2006 05:35, Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I want to cp -a /usr/portage to another partition to make room on /
>
>  When I will do this, all files of the portage directory will get
>  a new and nearly identical timestamp.
>
>  Will this hurt the packaging/compiling or "anything related to
>  administer gentoo"-thingy ?

no it wont.

I cp -a'ed my whole system on a new harddisk yesterday and everything still 
works like it should.

You have to use -a, not -r, but you will be save.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-04-21 12:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-21  3:35 [gentoo-user] Filetimestamp needed by emerge ? Meino Christian Cramer
2006-04-21  4:41 ` Martins Steinbergs
2006-04-21 13:23   ` John Jolet
2006-04-21 10:22 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-04-21 12:09 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin [this message]
2006-04-21 23:07 ` Ryan Tandy

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