At Sun, 06 Feb 2005 00:22:12 +0100 Bastian Balthazar Bux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: > >>I noticed the file /var/lib/portage/config and wonder what it is. >>I could not find it mentioned in the portage, emerge, or ebuild man >>pages. I also looked in the portage chapter of the handbook. >> > I bet it's used to see if the config files installed two different > emerge are the same, in this way: Yes. My suspicion is also that this has an md5 sum. > > in that file should stay all the files that match CONFIG_PROTECT > variable (emerge --info show this one) > It should not to be a disaster delete that file just boring. > >>Should I also merge the two config files and can I alphabetize them >>and uniq the result? >> > Add manually stuff into .../world is not a good idea, > # emerge --noreplace $(cat ../oldworld) > should be better, leave it insert the packages into world, > also *don't* sort it, I bet again that the order of emerge is > important, surely it can rebuild it but leave it in it's original > sorting IMHO is waaaay more secure. Is this correct? I was under the impression that one could safely add entries to world manually and the order was unimportant (so alphabetizing is safe). allan -- [email protected] mailing list
