On 11/02/2010 12:08 PM, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > 2010/11/2 Gary Golden <m...@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 >
Thanks for the correction, you're right, of course. Nevertheless, I've considered that using hardlinks is most porper way to solve this task. It basically do what I need, make another reference to the file under needed directory; without introducing compexity. -- Gary Golden
