On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@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
