Re: [gentoo-user] Filetimestamp needed by emerge ?

[Ryan Tandy <tarpman@gmail.com>]

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 ?
>
>  Thank you very much in advance for any helpful reply ! :)
>
>  Keep hacking!
>  mcc
>   
Won't cause any problems, since as mentioned by other posters, -a 
implies -p.  Even if it didn't, you wouldn't have problems because your 
sync timestamp is contained in /usr/portage/timestamp.chk.  As long as 
the *contents* of this file are not modified, your syncs will be fine.  
Other portage stuff does not use timestamps as far as I know (of files 
in /usr/portage anyway).
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