Re: [gentoo-user] ark-4.4.5-cli7zip.patch - Digest verification failed

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 19:02 on Sunday 19 September 2010, Mark Knecht
> did opine thusly:
>
>
>> In a related way I've never stopped to look at /usr in the process of
>> doing an install. I have an old Mac Mini that I've been trying to get
>> Gentoo running on recently so in the middle of my install this morning
>> I stopped after untarring the stage-3 tarball and before untarring the
>> portage snapshot and found that /usr/portage doesn't exist at that
>> point.
>>
>> Does this suggest that I'm actually free at any time to rm -r
>> /usr/portage and just untar the current snapshot? Other than distfiles
>> and the overhead of downloading all that stuff again is there anything
>> in /usr/portage that once erased would damage the machine?
>
> No, nothing. All the valuable data files are elsewhere in /var and all of
> portage can be downloaded at any time.
>
> $PORTDIR/local/layman can also be downloaded at any time.
>
> Your personal overlay (if you have one) in $PORTDIR/local/$WHATEVER will of
> course get nuked so you should back that up. It will be re-read when you put
> it back and run eix-update

Thanks very much for the info Alan. I appreciate it.

Cheers,
Mark