From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GJ5m3-0008Rm-Mq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 01 Sep 2006 09:57:20 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k819slOp013687; Fri, 1 Sep 2006 09:54:47 GMT Received: from swip.net (mailfe12.swip.net [212.247.155.97]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k819oj6I010948 for ; Fri, 1 Sep 2006 09:50:45 GMT X-T2-Posting-ID: xM5+dyx+bA+XkPEuvlDX1Q== X-Cloudmark-Score: 0.000000 [] Received: from [213.100.41.17] (HELO [192.168.0.16]) by mailfe12.swip.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.8) with ESMTP id 99795882 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 01 Sep 2006 11:50:44 +0200 Message-ID: <44F802A5.1030309@home.se> Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 11:51:33 +0200 From: Erik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060806) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted /var/lib/portage/config References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 56d272c2-eb5a-4d66-af35-ac6aeeb2b1de X-Archives-Hash: 2c9f34e04515b43b9483feecb86fe41d 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 ", 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