On Monday 12 June 2006 19:28, Alec Warner wrote: > Joerg Plate wrote: > >>Do make sure you back up the base /var/cache/edb/ > > > > Why? Anything in /var/cache doesn't need to be in a backup, > > because it can be generated when necessary (in theory...) > > in theory, yes;
in practice, this needs to be a yes too > in practice there are a couple of files you may not want > to destroy (mtimedb, counter) those files are very helpful sure, but portage needs to be able to sanely recover if they go bye bye -mike
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