On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Francesco Talamona <
francesco.talam...@know.eu> wrote:

> 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
>
>
I'll look forward to that going stable x86.  Right now that means
sys-apps/portage-2.1.8.3

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

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