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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] world symlinking
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2010/11/2 Gary Golden <mail@garygolden.me>:
> 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.
It should work. Just try it out, but make a copy of your world file
before. Should be easy to switch back if anything fails.
Afaik, the creation of the symbolic link should look like this:
ln -s /etc/portage/world /var/lib/portage/world
--
Daniel Pielmeier