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* Re: [gentoo-user] Filetimestamp needed by emerge ?
  @ 2006-04-21  4:41 99% ` Martins Steinbergs
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From: Martins Steinbergs @ 2006-04-21  4:41 UTC (permalink / raw
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On Friday 21 April 2006 06:35, 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

I have experience only with distfiles on vfat partition. generally it can be 
that way but without lockfile and cvs and svn. and probably resume on 
unfinished downloads corrupts files but I'm not sure about it.
To avoid very complex setup i steal space from vfat in favor of ext3 to put 
distfiles on.

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