From: "David Grant" <davidgrant@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted /var/lib/portage/config
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 03:08:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d18977190609010308y3a4ba426jf0b551e2b5375db6@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44F802A5.1030309@home.se>
I noticed that my /var/lib/portage/config file is not getting
populated with new entries anymore, although it did get created by
some program. Very strange...
David
On 9/1/06, Erik <sigra@home.se> wrote:
> David Grant wrote:
> > But what is config all about? On my other machine it looks like the
> > file contains a bunch of hashes for config files in /etc/. Are these
> > used to quickly see if a file in /etc/ is different or does it just do
> > a diff?
>
> It looks like the numbers I get when running "md5sum <filename>", at
> least for files that I have not modified or deleted. "man portage"
> mentions files that portage uses, but not /var/lib/portage/config. It is
> either because the file is not meant to be edited by the administrator
> or a documentation bug.
> --
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>
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2006-09-01 6:59 [gentoo-user] Deleted /var/lib/portage/config David Grant
2006-09-01 9:51 ` Erik
2006-09-01 10:08 ` David Grant [this message]
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