On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 22:36 +0200, Molle Bestefich wrote: > Hi > > Portage takes up a lot of space and time when doing server backups. > > How much of Portage needs to be backup up? > Any large parts of the tree that I can just dump?
You don't need to backup any of it. Everything under /usr/portage can be regained with an "emerge --sync" except distfiles, and those are redownloaded the next time you merge a package that requires it. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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