Gary Golden wrote:
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.
What about a bind mount?
Rgds,
Coert
