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