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* Re: [gentoo-user] Filetimestamp needed by emerge ?
  @ 2006-04-21 12:09 99% ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
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From: Hemmann, Volker Armin @ 2006-04-21 12:09 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On Friday 21 April 2006 05:35, 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 ?

no it wont.

I cp -a'ed my whole system on a new harddisk yesterday and everything still 
works like it should.

You have to use -a, not -r, but you will be save.
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