Apparently, though unproven, at 00:21 on Wednesday 03 November 2010, Francesco Talamona did opine thusly:
> 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 You have a funky cron somewhere? Are time stamps the same? I don't have such a thing: $ emerge -V Portage 2.2.0_alpha3 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.5, glibc-2.11.2-r3, 2.6.36-ck x86_64) $ ls -al /etc/world ls: cannot access /etc/world: No such file or directory -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
