On Tuesday 02 November 2010, Gary Golden wrote: > 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. > > Have a nice day! ;)
Actually it's much easier, I have two machines, both with /etc/world. And it's a exact copy of /var/lib/portage/world, something in my computers is doing this, and it isn't a (soft|hard)link :) sys-apps/portage-2.2_rc67 HTH Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.35-gentoo-r11, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Oct 29 20:33:46 CEST 2010 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4021.86 Bogomips Total aemaeth