Apparently, though unproven, at 11:54 on Tuesday 02 November 2010, Gary Golden did opine thusly:
> 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. hard links will only work if /etc/portage and /var/lib/portage are on the same filesystem. Frequently, they are not. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
