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 1PDSPE-0005mv-07 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 03 Nov 2010 01:44:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8FC12E068F; Wed, 3 Nov 2010 01:44:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f53.google.com (mail-yw0-f53.google.com [209.85.213.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C909E068F for ; Wed, 3 Nov 2010 01:44:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywa6 with SMTP id 6so125375ywa.40 for ; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:44:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=V/yxqCa4EFPC9kmNad11Es05NJd9kNenDntXDFfp+Zw=; b=xxP6PFdBxBjO7CU7KW1rIGEFJzpAe9A0cgmedjzmoKIyi+Z9HKcFSysEKusCFvdwZC 8fkk2xzo4H9qHsEYkijgzmMXlXO+L6Oj2ZBVr234zdThpdwa3LQT9FKYT/xC6wqxF/ba vLWRydTuET1Tz0NEbAse7HV30rhNXvmW8yzeI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=IUyQbik4WA4NQS0HHsdGS7ILuDe5+YFtLWxYo8KmEK8n32MK/abDDUrDP+GU2TmAqd C5jezwB7AMyvFMO3IJNyy1/UcB45ld5CNytbGc27DHTaUj+NvFRyorWMqfty5tXuZPgg 3oQOVbp6HegiIBDzvqXXFhVR35VVAXsN0cDHk= Received: by 10.150.196.1 with SMTP id t1mr234971ybf.1.1288748648955; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:44:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (adsl-95-107-183.jan.bellsouth.net [98.95.107.183]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q5sm100073ybe.18.2010.11.02.18.44.05 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:44:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4CD0BE64.7020201@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 20:44:04 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.15) Gecko/20101028 Gentoo/2.0.10 SeaMonkey/2.0.10 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: world symlinking References: <4CCF519A.6060500@garygolden.me> <201011022321.32051.francesco.talamona@know.eu> <201011030306.32169.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201011030306.32169.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: aec8ed57-55e8-441b-80b1-16ffbcb8419e X-Archives-Hash: a3914b8dd8be23a754358bc35220ce2d Alan McKinnon wrote: > 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 > > I don't have one here and I run the latest portage. I don't recall ever having one either. Dale :-) :-)