From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ic7r1-0004YA-P8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:05:40 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l8UMtSkq026819; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 22:55:28 GMT Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l8UMp6ci021927 for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 22:51:07 GMT Received: from krikkit.digimed.co.uk (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11FF91D8B92 for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:51:04 +0100 (BST) Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:50:59 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Backups Message-ID: <20070930235059.2b91f865@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200709301820.01084.mcbrides9@comcast.net> References: <49bf44f10709291526s46c5c1ebrb34a7171215a3db2@mail.gmail.com> <200709301616.03663.mcbrides9@comcast.net> <20070930230230.7ef66025@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <200709301820.01084.mcbrides9@comcast.net> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.0.1cvs49 (GTK+ 2.12.0; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Sender: neil@digimed.co.uk Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/87mD8vhzK_E_SNCI137.Zgp"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 6d90d219-d4ba-4521-8d06-ccad2c6e3431 X-Archives-Hash: b2042196b100e26faef297ec1054a70d --Sig_/87mD8vhzK_E_SNCI137.Zgp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello Jerry McBride, > > Why not just backup the world list itself, /var/lib/portage/world? > > Your method doesn't distinguish between packages in world and their > > dependencies, emerging from this would result in a screwed world file. > It doesn't have too. The files I listed plus a backup of /etc is all > you need... So how do you create your world file? And why do you need a list of system files when you have already backed up /etc? --=20 Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 37: Sanitary landfill --Sig_/87mD8vhzK_E_SNCI137.Zgp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHAChXum4al0N1GQMRAvBLAJ9emP49cCnY9A0z/efJ/Vs7XObZqQCfWU4E IPURsd4cOiZcxgTyRTtpAfg= =NLIW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/87mD8vhzK_E_SNCI137.Zgp-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list