* [gentoo-user] Deleted /var/lib/portage/config
@ 2006-09-01 6:59 David Grant
2006-09-01 9:51 ` Erik
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From: David Grant @ 2006-09-01 6:59 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
I accidentally deleted /var/lib (I meant to delete /var/lib/mysql).
The only damage seems to be the deletion of /var/lib/portage/config
and /var/lib/portage/mysql
I'm not worried about world, I can easiliy fix that over time by
running emerge -p --depclean and adding world entries. There are
probably only about 10 packages anyways because this is a mythtv box.
But what is config all about? On my other machine it looks like the
file contains a bunch of hashes for config files in /etc/. Are these
used to quickly see if a file in /etc/ is different or does it just do
a diff?
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted /var/lib/portage/config
2006-09-01 6:59 [gentoo-user] Deleted /var/lib/portage/config David Grant
@ 2006-09-01 9:51 ` Erik
2006-09-01 10:08 ` David Grant
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From: Erik @ 2006-09-01 9:51 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
David Grant wrote:
> But what is config all about? On my other machine it looks like the
> file contains a bunch of hashes for config files in /etc/. Are these
> used to quickly see if a file in /etc/ is different or does it just do
> a diff?
It looks like the numbers I get when running "md5sum <filename>", at
least for files that I have not modified or deleted. "man portage"
mentions files that portage uses, but not /var/lib/portage/config. It is
either because the file is not meant to be edited by the administrator
or a documentation bug.
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted /var/lib/portage/config
2006-09-01 9:51 ` Erik
@ 2006-09-01 10:08 ` David Grant
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From: David Grant @ 2006-09-01 10:08 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
I noticed that my /var/lib/portage/config file is not getting
populated with new entries anymore, although it did get created by
some program. Very strange...
David
On 9/1/06, Erik <sigra@home.se> wrote:
> David Grant wrote:
> > But what is config all about? On my other machine it looks like the
> > file contains a bunch of hashes for config files in /etc/. Are these
> > used to quickly see if a file in /etc/ is different or does it just do
> > a diff?
>
> It looks like the numbers I get when running "md5sum <filename>", at
> least for files that I have not modified or deleted. "man portage"
> mentions files that portage uses, but not /var/lib/portage/config. It is
> either because the file is not meant to be edited by the administrator
> or a documentation bug.
> --
> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
>
>
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