From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PDRoQ-0006HN-Li for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 03 Nov 2010 01:06:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8ACCFE070F; Wed, 3 Nov 2010 01:05:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f53.google.com (mail-ew0-f53.google.com [209.85.215.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A164E070F for ; Wed, 3 Nov 2010 01:05:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy10 with SMTP id 10so30018ewy.40 for ; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:05:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=5+LF1b/WFn1Ps/xQfv7HYXCuo2DpU9GRZbRz0FkXGA4=; b=OrbICr5uO24sS7pF1ojODTX1eTYDlnkevCQ6194mB0CWA2NpCb9B+M0Uc6moPVgUa8 QDXMpPgzYaMWQA48KrcQgeX1ewja/S/d3xDY6IoBG3erFnePKqhHWKUru4aGLeFmo4PI aioAXnbjeNJSFaQIsx5RWPL6i/nRnWfnL5OaA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=kaL4CaFfnWIWI32acpPCFd5HnaoudhAafc/dUfHhPfl6Uu/Qr2NbitP0Wt+xesipuR hUSEBHd2xB89N96V+udkYwT4RqOo953XIvIAstQFqjCY4xstxKGHCXNzNtB/60yaiuIf afgyqJzBcHrAK4adovtrpqBM+qUds4r67i36M= Received: by 10.14.37.10 with SMTP id x10mr209064eea.30.1288746358635; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:05:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-215-2-42.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.215.2.42]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b52sm6000119eei.1.2010.11.02.18.05.56 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:05:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: world symlinking Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 03:06:31 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.36-ck; KDE/4.5.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Francesco Talamona References: <4CCF519A.6060500@garygolden.me> <201011022321.32051.francesco.talamona@know.eu> In-Reply-To: <201011022321.32051.francesco.talamona@know.eu> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201011030306.32169.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 1932c569-bc5a-431c-afb8-3ddc9403ac81 X-Archives-Hash: 6ec4573cdad757ab4c6c23b9dc7dd637 Apparently, though unproven, at 00:21 on Wednesday 03 November 2010, Francesco Talamona did opine thusly: > On Tuesday 02 November 2010, Gary Golden wrote: > > Hi, list. > > I keep changes of my /etc with git and I would like to include > > /var/lib/portage/world file into the repository. > > > > Can I safely do: > > > > mv /var/lib/portage/world /etc/portage > > ln -s /etc/portage /var/lib/portage/world > > > > Will portage update handle it properly? > > Using hardlinks seems to be more cleaner way, but for some reason I > > don't want to use it for this task. > > > > Have a nice day! ;) > > Actually it's much easier, I have two machines, both with /etc/world. > And it's a exact copy of /var/lib/portage/world, something in my > computers is doing this, and it isn't a (soft|hard)link :) > > sys-apps/portage-2.2_rc67 You have a funky cron somewhere? Are time stamps the same? I don't have such a thing: $ emerge -V Portage 2.2.0_alpha3 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.5, glibc-2.11.2-r3, 2.6.36-ck x86_64) $ ls -al /etc/world ls: cannot access /etc/world: No such file or directory -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com