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 1PDV0D-0004HC-Ia for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 03 Nov 2010 04:31:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 056C7E068E; Wed, 3 Nov 2010 04:29:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gy0-f181.google.com (mail-gy0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5A91E068E for ; Wed, 3 Nov 2010 04:29:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gye5 with SMTP id 5so233485gye.40 for ; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 21:29:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=778h9kfmsA0kwLZqBrSCpesaxw4PI+dtiOxAlos+XXA=; b=OxpIBoO4pdOkBwOUSTFFLkxbBiZdxslOXo2cpn26URHSlMrgmV7EiTm2XGYLAY5qVj C0ZX7xt2+a2E6NaHHEq5suO9CVGHG9khMRcVd2FXcUwJ3jSipKk+Dr0h4WwRyxTdj90Q arv21g4GqAbTuqGVaHCS7JYx6Djv2GfGVGqtc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=UDly/QIfAhbb86f2BH/41/20TM7k2lUmWKBl8EdbEmIPK1QhZ76u8yRsUPMSWXi0UJ jpbDP00+Q9/gm6GDnqzBsOEP43sHm3vhBVluwBx6Q3/0Y36JBZPbienmGa8brUnLepws hLmKqdKPob/96qWwo7BvOn78WMslR3xzOmOHY= 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 Received: by 10.151.100.10 with SMTP id c10mr400909ybm.305.1288758565321; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 21:29:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.151.84.20 with HTTP; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 21:29:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201011022321.32051.francesco.talamona@know.eu> References: <4CCF519A.6060500@garygolden.me> <201011022321.32051.francesco.talamona@know.eu> Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 21:29:25 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: world symlinking From: "Kevin O'Gorman" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=000e0cdf10ea7cbd9f04941e7cc8 X-Archives-Salt: ffc24d2b-ff3b-4495-9124-d06e1ecab006 X-Archives-Hash: 0fb58815f0fc5e97e3c88764fb1f4737 --000e0cdf10ea7cbd9f04941e7cc8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Francesco Talamona < francesco.talamona@know.eu> wrote: > 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 > > HTH > Francesco > > I'll look forward to that going stable x86. Right now that means sys-apps/portage-2.1.8.3 -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD --000e0cdf10ea7cbd9f04941e7cc8 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Francesc= o Talamona <francesco.talamona@know.eu> wrote:
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

HTH
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0Francesco


I'll look forw= ard to that going stable x86.=C2=A0 Right now that means sys-apps/portage-2= .1.8.3

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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

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